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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: The CSO residential property prices for County Laois showed a jump of 12% in a 12-month period. Wage inflation has not jumped to meet this. This is making it harder for ordinary workers to purchase their first home. Due to the spiralling prices more workers are reliant and waiting for some type of an affordable housing programme to come onstream. So far the Government has delivered only...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Take it up with the Minister for Health.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: I raise the commitment in the programme for Government with regard to improving primary care services. There is a chronic shortage of GPs in Laois and Offaly. There are 37 practising GPs in Laois, which is one for every 2,483 of the population. Five have resigned in the past two years and four have retired, which is a loss of nine. In Offaly, there are just 31 practising GPs, which breaks...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: While there was a great deal of money in the budget this year, it failed people with disabilities, their families and carers. The Government failed the 1,752 carers in County Laois and the 2,182 carers in County Offaly. Those are just the people in receipt of payments and, of course, there are thousands who do not get payments. Many of those are struggling to secure respite care and people...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Go back to bed.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I will raise the issue of places in primary schools for children with autism. Parents in a number of areas of County Laois have raised it with me. In several areas of the county, parents cannot get their children a place for next September in an autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit. One parent tells me that she has applied to 19 schools with no success and is at her wits' end. A number of...

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: We should not have any further delay in reform of the licence fee and funding for RTÉ. This is for the future of RTÉ. The Government has dithered on this and cannot seem to reach an agreement. Sinn Féin's motion proposes an end to the licence fee model to be replaced with direct Exchequer funding for sustainable public sector broadcasting. RTÉ has already been given ad...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: 20. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for details of the increased costs of business grants announced in the budget; the amount per grant and when the scheme will begin. [5280/24]

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: The fact is that the housing situation continues to get worse under the Government's watch. The fact is that rents are at an all-time high and rising. The Government has missed its social and affordable housing targets for three years in a row. It is a fact that in County Laois new rents have increased by 11.4% in 12 months. In fact, it is almost impossible to enter the private rental...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: I wish to raise the issue of driver test waiting times. I got figures recently in response to a parliamentary question and there is a waiting time of 24 weeks in the Birr test centre, 25 weeks in Portlaoise and 43 weeks in Kilkenny city. This is according to the figures I got. It is a scandalous delay. I have taken up this matter before with the Minister. It is particularly affecting...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: I ask the Taoiseach to get the Minister to take a hands on approach with this issue and to try to get it addressed with the RSA.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: It needs a push. It needs action.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: Two of them, as I understand it, do not have enough physical space already but the rest of them all require buildings.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to do that. The Minister of State might just give me a response on where each one of those schools is at. That would be really helpful.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to raise this very important issue with the Minister of State. As he knows, autism spectrum disorder units are very important. It is important children have access to them. We have a chronic shortage of ASD units at second level in all of County Laois. Good work has been done in existing ASD units at primary level and in some second level colleges in the country...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I have followed what he said here very carefully. I welcome the fact there is some forward planning happening under the National Council for Special Education. That is really important. On this forward planning, the Minister of State said works are under way for the 2024-2025 school year and there are 389 new special classes. In Laois, I have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: The way of really ensuring that, as the Minister of State knows, is to have a referendum for constitutional change. There should be an amendment to the Constitution to enshrine that. The concern here is that a private company has been lined up - Mott MacDonald has been named in media - to provide services in relation to capital works for Uisce Éireann. As I understand it, the partner...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes, but Uisce Éireann has a whole battalion of engineers and people who should be capable of project management. The Minister of State and I also know that DBOs are very expensive. Anyone who follows local authority budgets will see that every year in their annual budgets when they look at services that have been provided. While in theory it may be publicly owned, the fear is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: 9. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what role a person (details supplied) will play in Uisce Éireann’s capital investment plan. [53991/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: 40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether private sector investors will be used to finance Uisce Éireann’s capital investment plan; if these will be PPPs or shareholders in Uisce Éireann; and the reason his Department is not fully financing Uisce Éireann’s capital plan. [53992/23]