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Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: There is a significant amount to which I need to reply. If I do not reply on all the queries, I will try to respond to the Deputies at a later point. I have an announcement that highlights the challenge we face. I am aware of an outbreak of avian influenza at Our Lady's Island tern colony in Wexford. The NPWS and Birdwatch Ireland are working to ensure the effect on this...

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: Why not?

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I am pleased to have the opportunity to update the House on the progress of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS. The biodiversity emergency is among our greatest challenges, if not the greatest. Over the past 100 years, generations of Irish people have seen a gradual dimming of the variety of life, a greying out of the diversity of species and habitats and a silencing of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: The Government recently established the Land Development Agency, LDA, for the purpose of developing affordable and social housing on State lands. The LDA also works to procure housing units more broadly for cost rental and affordable purchase. The Housing Agency separately provides a range of housing functions and services, including assisting local authorities to deliver their housing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: There is nothing wrong with private housing construction. We have not just been funding the development of social housing. We fund the approved housing bodies to construct housing. There is a significant uptake in first-time mortgages, which is to be welcomed. It brings first-time buyers into the market, which is absolutely to be welcomed because those are housing solutions for those...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: Again, I disagree with the Deputy-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I disagree first of all about the necessity to set up a State construction company. We are delivering under Housing for All. For the first time in a generation, we are delivering affordable housing and cost rental, as well as funding the AHBs to deliver too. We are delivering right across all housing tenures. That is critically important and we will continue to do that. The problems with...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I think it is probably for September.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I have the figures.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: If it is useful, I might give a detailed background to this, given the issue of a national monuments advisory council has arisen in a number of amendments. I will update the committee on the request in respect of the resources of the Heritage Council, and I have information on excavation licences that might be useful for the context of today's session. The National Monuments Advisory...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I will respond to both Deputies. I hope I can provide assurance further to the note I read out about the National Monuments Advisory Council. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan spoke about Carrickmines. It was an exceptional find and legitimate concerns were raised about it. It is certainly not typical of what happens generally; it was exceptional. There is no doubt that it is an important site....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I am happy to do that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I accept the Deputy's point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 119: In page 45, after line 39 to insert the following: “(8) The Council may, for the purposes of forming any views referred to in subsection (7)(a), consult with such public authorities or other persons as it thinks fit.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 120: In page 48, line 28, after “authority” to insert “, with the consent of the Minister,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 121: In page 49, line 2, after “include” to insert “, in so far as any requirement for an EIA is concerned”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 122: In page 50, line 2, to delete “observations.” and substitute “observations;”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 123: In page 50, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “ “Transboundary Convention” means the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary context, done at Espo (Finland), on 25 of February 1991; “Transboundary State” means any other state party to the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: On amendment No. 124, there may be some misinterpretation of section 26(2), the purpose of which is to avoid State bodies needing to obtain a licence under Part 7 of the enacted Bill in order for them to issue a licence of their own. Section 26(2)(a) provides that Chapter 6 of the Bill, where the requirement to have a licence arises, will not apply to the issuing of an authorisation by...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 127: In page 55, to delete lines 37 to 41, and in page 56, to delete lines 1 to 14 and substitute the following: “(b) the recording of the monument as a whole or any part or aspect of it (including its immediate surroundings) or any objects on, in, under or within it or its immediate surroundings including, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing,...