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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: In relation to the targets set for planting, does Mr. Gleeson believe that, over the next five years, we can achieve those targets in view of the delays that have occurred over the last five years? We have a lot of catching up to do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: One of the things that has arisen and that has landed in my office is the situation where someone has received a felling licence but they cannot get a road opening licence, and even though they have a right of way to the land, they are being refused the road opening licence. They invested in this 20 to 25 years ago - it was a pension fund - but they now find they are landlocked. There has...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: They are saying the environmental issues have changed. They have been told that where the road would go in is too close to a stream, but that was not identified 25 years ago when they got the planting licence. What I am saying to Mr. Gleeson is that all of these need to be flagged up if people are investing money. They are now in a situation where they are landlocked as a result, and they...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: To go back to the planting issue, in 2021, we only achieved half of the target. To take 2023 and 2024, will the targets set for those years be achieved right across the board, from the felling of timber to planting and the opening up of new investment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: Will the targets be reached?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: Is that this year or next year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023) Colm Burke: Will we achieve it in 2024 or 2025?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: In fairness, the local authorities did not build the houses themselves; they got contractors in to build them. However, the whole process of getting local authorities to get work done is just a minefield. I will give the committee an example. In my constituency there was a private housing estate finished and ready to occupy recently, and it took eight weeks to get a county council engineer...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: That is what I am saying. They are not built by local authority employees, which is my point. If you go back 30 years, workers were employed by local authorities to physically build houses. That has all changed. All of these houses were built by contractors contracted with the local authority.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: Absolutely.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action his Department has taken to date regarding the evacuation of Irish citizens from Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21036/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Cybersecurity Policy (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 115. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures his Department is taking in order to improve and strengthen Ireland’s cybersecurity defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21037/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process that is in place for those who hold Ukrainian driving licences to be assessed by the NDLS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20948/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action his Department is taking to improve modes of public transport, in particular the national bus service, given that passenger numbers have in some cases exceeded pre-Covid levels, resulting in capacity issues on many bus routes across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21032/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action his Department is taking to ensure stronger security measures across all Irish airports in light of recent events of drone activity at Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21033/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance the increased supports, if any, that businesses will receive in tackling the cost-of-living crisis as they struggle to pay bills at this time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20942/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports available to any of the 65,000 firms around the country faced with tax-debt warehousing repayments dating back to the earlier stage of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, that may struggle to pay back this debt with the climate of increased costs at this time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20943/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his Department have had any discussions with the banks in respect of speeding up the process of small businesses meeting with banks, and in particular, reducing the time period for dealing with such loan applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20944/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider opening an emergency fund for further future unforeseen events that may hit Ireland's economy and hurt its businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20945/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (4 May 2023)
Colm Burke: 155. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the effectiveness of the Local Enterprise Office system in making businesses aware of Government grants and schemes available to them, as only 30,000 businesses took up the TBESS scheme over the winter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20947/23]