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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: The State is intervening at an unprecedented scale in dealing with the homelessness crisis and the issues of residential tenancies. Specifically, our Department is reviewing the case to which the Deputy refers. I give that assurance to the Deputy. So far I cannot speak any further to it but it is under review.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: Data relating to new dwelling completions is published by the CSO on a quarterly basis. There are three new dwelling classification types:- single house, scheme house and apartment. Single dwellings are defined as one-off dwellings connected to the ESB network. The ESB domestic connections dataset provides information on the type of connection and whether it is in an urban or rural area. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (26 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: My Department’s Multi-annual Rural Water Programme, through Exchequer funding, delivers improvements to water services in areas of rural Ireland where there are no public water services. The Rural Water Working Group will shortly finalise the composition of the measures for inclusion for funding under the upcoming multi-annual programme. When I have had an opportunity to consider...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (26 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: The Programme for Government supports the uptake of Uisce Éireann's Small Towns and Villages Growth Programme 2020-2024, to provide water and waste water growth capacity in smaller settlements that would otherwise not be provided for in Uisce Éireann's capital investment plan. I understand that the Commission for Regulation of Utilities has approved an allocation of almost...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Official Engagements (26 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I attended the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal in December and was delighted to address the High-Level Segment of the meeting on behalf of Ireland. The Irish delegation, led by my Department's National Parks and Wildlife Service, negotiated at COP as part of the European Union. The position of the EU and its Member States supported an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (26 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: The Electoral Reform Act 2022, delivers the legislative underpinning for a range of significant electoral reforms set out in the “Programme for Government – Our Shared Future”. Provisions commenced on 13 October under S.I. No. 512 of 2022, included provisions which modernise electoral registration, including the requirement for each registration authority to establish...

Nagoya Protocol: Motion (24 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Convention on Biological Diversity Protocol: Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity, a copy of which has been laid before Dáil Éireann on 8th December, 2022.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Nagoya Protocol: Motion (19 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: Go raibh maith agat a Chathaoirligh, agus leis an coiste. I thank them for the opportunity to address them as we move to ratify the Nagoya Protocol. It is a landmark agreement in the international governance of biodiversity that was adopted at the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties on 29 October 2010 in Japan. While it has taken longer than we might have liked, I am proud that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Nagoya Protocol: Motion (19 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputy for her questions. I will ask my officials to come in with more specifics but legislation is indeed required. In tandem with that, it is the intention of the NPWS to establish an ad hocgroup to bring together a stakeholder forum to look at the elements of the ratification and implementation of the protocol. As for a timeline for all this, we are probably looking at...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Nagoya Protocol: Motion (19 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I would be more than happy to do that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Nagoya Protocol: Motion (19 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: Again, I will ask Mr. Moore to deal specifically with that question. I thank the Chairman for his comments on COP15. I also wish to thank our officials and team who represented Ireland so well as part of the wider EU negotiating team. Certainly, there was a very positive outcome from COP15 that will lead, I hope, to transformative change. I also thank this committee, which is very busy....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Nagoya Protocol: Motion (19 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: Again, I will defer to Mr. Moore on the specifics. As we see it, however, the stakeholders are our research institutions and the pharmaceutical companies that have a very strong presence in Ireland. I am speaking about research organisations such as Teagasc, the Intellectual Property Office and the National Botanic Gardens. These bodies, as we would see it, would be the users of these...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Nagoya Protocol: Motion (19 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: The protocol is not directly related. Many of the pharmaceutical companies we are speaking about are situated in the Cork area. There is very good movement on biodiversity in Cork city and county. The local authorities in Cork have appointed their own biodiversity officers and the Department is supporting the roll-out of further biodiversity officers throughout the country. There will be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Nagoya Protocol: Motion (19 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: There is quite an amount of work to be done on capacity building to support implementation at a national level and research. The Department will lead on this as well as on the legislative element. Quite a significant opportunity will arise from the protocol. The general sense of direction of this work is to collaborate with all of the stakeholders to ensure implementation of the protocol....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Nagoya Protocol: Motion (19 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I will defer to Mr. Moore on the specific questions. As I said, there are positive benefits for the research element. We still have a significant amount of work to do on capacity building among all of the stakeholders. I will ask Mr. Moore to come in on these questions.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Nagoya Protocol: Motion (19 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: Again, we see this as unrelated. I had engagement with the provider of the open litter map as well. What we have done recently is bolster the governance around the national biodiversity data centre, and its ability to gather data through citizen science has been greatly enhanced. We have seen, particularly during Covid, that it has had a real significant spike in people inputting through...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Nagoya Protocol: Motion (19 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: The legislation exists already so it is a statutory instrument. Is the Deputy talking about the movement of the ratification?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Nagoya Protocol: Motion (19 Jan 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: In the next 12 months.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (14 Dec 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 86 to 90, inclusive, together. Under the provisions of Part III of the Electoral Reform Act 2022, the introduction of a rolling electoral registration process (in contrast to the former annual registration process) means that people can register or update their details, including postal voting applications at any time of year up to the usual deadlines in...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (13 Dec 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: Ar dtús, cuirim fáilte roimh an gclann Aylward anseo inniu. I was first elected to Kilkenny County Council in 2004. Bobby had served for a few years on the local authority at that stage, so I had the privilege of serving with him for a few years before he was first elected to Dáil Éireann. Even on my first day, which, like anyone's first day after an election can be...