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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (20 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: ...Jacqueline Keating Laois Ballylinan May Brendan Wyse Kildare Naas Elaine Therese Clarke Laois Rathdowney John Prendergast Kilkenny Graiguenamanagh Michael Doyle Kilkenny Inistioge ...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: That track needs to be finished. Its completion is important. I have been a supporter of that cycle track. Without being too parochial, I will ask Dr. May about St. Fergal's College, Rathdowney. We met the Minister for Education yesterday about the school's need for a school hall. It was built as a vocational school in 1937. It covers the southern third of Laois and there is no indoor...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (11 May 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...available for this programme. Nevertheless, work is already well underway on the first phase of seven sites.So far, locations in Cavan town, Mahon in Cork, Thurles, Sligo, Claremorris, Clonminch and Rathdowney are being developed. The first of the sites at Mahon in Cork will be completed for handover to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY)...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Modern Construction Methods: Discussion (2 May 2023)

...the country, all of which will finish in a certain time period. The first will be ready in Cork on 18 May and will be followed by sites in Claremorris, Thurles, Doorly Park, Cavan, Clonminch and Rathdowney. What do these sites look like? We might first look at the Mahon site in Cork. None of the sites we had were Housing for All sites. They were all left over from other areas and were...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (27 Apr 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...happening on a number of those sites in preparation for the start of a phased occupation over the next few months. So far, locations in Cavan Town, Mahon in Cork, Thurles, Sligo Town, Claremorris, Rathdowney and Clonminch are being progressed. The first of the sites at Mahon in Cork and Cavan Town will be completed for handover to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability,...

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: Many of the areas they are going to are already economically disadvantaged. Forty families moved into modular accommodation in Rathdowney, County Laois. It has been positive, by and large. The areas they are going into, such as Rathdowney, have a low level of economic development and there is not much economic activity ,apart from agriculture and sectors related to agriculture. If further...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Mar 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...care of the Laois/Offaly mental health services who either currently reside at a facility (details supplied), or for whom the facility is their nearest 24-hour staffed facility; the distance from Rathdowney of each of these facilities; if he will provide details on how each of these facilities meet the requirements of the HSE Design for Mental Health Guidelines, by which the facility was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (14 Feb 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Ossian Smyth: ...on her behalf. This provides me with the opportunity to clarify the position in relation to the Department of Education's plans for upgrading school buildings, including St. Fergal's College, Rathdowney, County Laois. The Deputy may be aware that St. Fergal's College is a multidenominational, co-educational, post-primary school in the town of Rathdowney. In 2022, the school had an...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: I got letters about the site in Rathdowney in south Laois. The first I heard about it was when I saw it in one of the local newspapers. As a local Deputy, as soon as I had bought the paper, questions were coming into my office about it. It puts us in an awful position. I had to say to people straight up that I had only just learned about it having read about it in the local paper. While...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (13 Dec 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...Centre Nutgrove Shopping Centre Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 Portlaoise DSP Office Government Buildings Abbeyleix Road Co Laois Rathdowney Branch Office Main Street Rathdowney Co Laois Roscommon Intreo Centre Roscommon Town Co Roscommon ...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022) See 4 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: ...that there is problem. There were local clinics in different towns. Take County Laois, for example. There would have been a clinic perhaps one morning a week for two hours in Mountrath, Abbeyleix, Rathdowney, Mountmellick, Portarlington and places such as that. In fact, in Portarlington and Rathdowney, there would have been a service because they have small social welfare offices....

Retained Firefighters: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...the Taoiseach on the floor of the Dáil. New recruits are not entering the service. We need a solution quickly. Crews are on call 24-7-12 in the various areas and are in understaffed stations. In Rathdowney, for example, the crew is down to five people, although there are supposed to be nine at a minimum. In Abbeyleix, it is down to six. That is the situation we are in. I want...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...and the answers should be as short as possible. The capital spend on CH0 8 for 2021 was €5.9 million. which appears to be very low. Will she confirm that €100,000 was spent on Erkina House in Rathdowney, County Laois? I do not want to be abrupt but a yes-no will do.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...is correspondence from private individuals. Item 1343 is for myself. It has been dated 5 July 2022. It is a request that we make inquiries with the HSE regarding the expenditure on Erkina House, Rathdowney. This follows on from the consideration of an issue raised by Deputy Hourigan last week and our agreement to hold an engagement with the HSE in relation to mental health and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...substantial investment from the Department in equipment such as fire tenders, training towers and new fire stations. That is all to the good, although there are still a couple outstanding such as Rathdowney and Stradbally. You might take note that they are badly in need of a new station. However, there has been great investment. The problem is that we will not have the staff if we do...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (1 Jun 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Mary Butler: ...support residence that provides a rehabilitation and recovery service for people with mental health difficulties. There are currently 12 residents in the house, which is situated in the village of Rathdowney, County Laois, in the Deputy's constituency. The first I heard of this matter was when Deputy Stanley, the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming, and Deputy Flanagan made contact with my...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (1 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...; Laoghaire - to discuss the shortage in special class places across the State; (4) Deputy Brian Stanley - to ask the Minister for Health to discuss the future of the mental health facility Erkina House in Rathdowney, County Laois; (5) Deputy Thomas Gould - to discuss the need for the expansion of the homeless housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme State-wide; (6) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (31 May 2022)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...and gender-based violence, following the opening of public consultation recently; (3) Deputy Brian Stanley - to ask the Minister for Health to discuss the future of the mental health facility Erkina House in Rathdowney, County Laois; (4) Deputy Colm Burke - to ask the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline what action is being taken by his Department along with...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...to ascertain how long it is taking for these loans to be approved; (5) Deputy Brian Stanley - to ask the Minister for Health to discuss the future of the mental health facility Erkina House in Rathdowney, County Laois; (6) Deputy Thomas Gould - to discuss the work of the vacant homes unit in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the proposed vacant homes tax; (7)...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (24 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: ..., CAMHS, Cherry Orchard; (7) Deputy Chris Andrews - to discuss proposals to repurpose the Baggot Street hospital for refugee housing; (8) Deputy Brian Stanley - to discuss the future of the mental health facility Erkina House, Rathdowney; (9) Deputies Paul Murphy and Richard Boyd Barrett - to discuss the Oxfam wealth report; (10) Deputy David Stanton - to discuss security of natural gas...