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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: ...xe1;intecare healthy communities parenting programmes, and the use of special emergency arrangements as areas of interest. We are joined by the following officials from Tusla: Ms Kate Duggan, CEO, Mr. Pat Smyth, national director of finance and corporate services, Ms Clare Murphy, interim national director of services and integration, and Ms Rosarii Mannion, national director of people...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development
Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2021
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (30 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...contracting Covid-19. Members of the committee attending remotely must continue to do so from within the precincts of Leinster House due to the constitutional requirement that, in order to participate in public meetings, members must be physically present within the confines of the place where Parliament has chosen to sit. The Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, is a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...30 January 2022, relates to the closure of the Owenacurra Centre in Midleton, County Cork. We have received a number of representations from individuals regarding this matter, including Deputy Pat Buckley, those being Nos. R1036, R1039, R1043, R1058 and R1065. Following receipt of previous correspondence from Councillor Quaide last year, we wrote to the HSE and requested a detailed...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...committee. Members of the committee attending remotely must continue to do so from within the precincts of Leinster House. This is due to the constitutional requirement that, in order to participate in public meetings, members must be physically present within the confines of the Parliament. The Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, is a permanent witness. This...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: .... This is the final meeting of the year and, on behalf of the committee, I thank the secretariat. It is dangerous to mention names because I will leave some of them out, but I thank Sarah, Eoin, Pat, Sam and Shane for the service they have provided. I also thank Martin, the clerk to the committee. I wish the staff of the health service all the best for Christmas and the new year. Is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...joined remotely from within the precincts of Leinster House by the following officials from Tusla: Mr. Bernard Gloster, chief executive; Ms Kate Duggan, director of services and integration; Mr. Pat Smyth, director of finance; and Ms Niamh Doody, business manager. Before we start, I will explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the House as regards...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (27 Nov 2019)

Brian Stanley: ...Fianna Fáil to join us in calling for the injunctions to be lifted. We need to create a bit of a positive mood in this regard. The beef price index has been established and has been welcomed by Mr. Pat McCormack of the ICMSA on the basis that it clearly shows "that the markets where we sell our beef are moving in a positive direction and at a momentum that demonstrably justifies an...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (18 Dec 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...with people that we are not in a good place. For the past seven or eight years, I have been highlighting this issue with the Minister and his predecessors, including Mr. Phil Hogan and Mr. Pat Rabbitte. We do not have many practical measures in place at this stage. The Minister of State referred to measures the Government will put in place. We welcome those and their introduction needs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Brian Stanley: ..., Mr. T.J. Flanagan, and Mr. Eamonn Farrell of the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society, ICOS; Mr. Gerry Loftus and Ms Bridget Murphy of the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association, INHFA; Mr. Pat McCormack and Mr. Lorcan McCabe of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, ICMSA; and Mr. Joe Healy, Mr. Thomas Cooney and Mr. Damian McDonald of the Irish Farmers Association, IFA....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Loftus. I invite Mr. Pat McCormack of the ICMSA to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: ..., in early 2019. This has been going on for years. The witness was in that Department with Mr. Phil Hogan when he was the Minister. I was my party's spokesperson on that brief. Former Deputy Pat Rabbitte and a few other Ministers have come and gone since then. Can nothing be done? What is happening here - and I have told the Minister this - is that the door will be closed after the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...erected in Moanvane, Walsh Island, County Offaly, just outside Portarlington. Can the Tánaiste find out who is holding the guidelines back? Five years ago, the former Ministers, Phil Hogan and Pat Rabbitte, repeatedly told me and others in the House that they would be in place "shortly". Six years later, they have still not been implemented.

Topical Issue Debate: Broadband Service Provision (24 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...trying to advance it but progress has been very slow in this regard. The national broadband plan was first published by the then Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Mr. Pat Rabbitte, in 2012. It is now 2018 and there has been little progress on the broadband plan itself. There is the scheme being rolled out by Eir to capture 288,000 households but in the...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: .... In fact, if I remember correctly, we had arguments about a good few things. Sometimes we agreed on some issues, especially on the boundary of Graiguecullen, an issue that went on for years. Deputy Pat Deering will be familiar with it. Phil Hogan was the one man who did make the change, which I had raised with him in the Dáil, to align the county council boundary in Graiguecullen...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...Development of Rural Areas, CEDRA, which falls within the remit of the Minister's Department. The Minister of State, Deputy Phelan, has a particular role in this area. There is a concern that Pat Spillane and the committee went away, put together a good report, came back with it but, as I understand it, there is not much allocated for this year. A figure of €1 million has been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Generation (4 Feb 2014)

Brian Stanley: ..., with a brief yes or no answer, the position on the North-South interconnector? The Taoiseach now says it is included, but the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, is unsure. The chairperson of the commission said the expert panel would "Consider what, if anything, we can do." Will the Minister clarify the position for me? Is the North-South...

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: ...and people who do not count themselves as being marginalised are not being represented. People all along the western seaboard could now be hundreds of miles from their MEPs. For example, if Mr. Pat The Cope Gallagher, MEP wins a seat, he will also represent my county. That will be difficult. The area is massive. It cannot be done. How the enlargement of Europe is being balanced must...

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (28 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: I know, but Mr. Pat The Cope Gallagher, MEP, will have a job getting around all of that. It will be difficult. MEPs will be remote. The area is huge. The same applies to the South constituency. At least the previous constituencies of Dublin, East, South and North-West had some kind of geographical coherence. It might be argued that the old provincial regions and Dublin no longer have...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Brian Stanley: ...Party present is a man involved in the campaign for Labour policy because the rest have forgotten what they campaigned on. The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, confirmed that the other night on television. Amendments Nos. 2 and 3 in section 1 are about trying to get the language straight. I regret that amendment No. 1 from Sinn Féin...

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)

Brian Stanley: ...Labour Party peddled during the election campaign have been exposed in this budget. Despite this, according to the comments of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, over the weekend, that is okay because they were only promises made during election time. Nowhere is this clearer than in the Social Welfare Bill, which could be more...