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Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 187, it be an instruction to the Dáil in Committee on the Electoral Reform Bill 2022, that it has power to make amendments to the Bill which are outside the scope of the existing provisions of the Bill, in relation to amendments to: (a) sections 2, 3, 22, 23A, 25, 43, 46, 48A, 61, 83, 84, 85, 86 and 88 of the Electoral Act 1997 and the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Cross-Border Co-operation (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: The Programme for Government includes a commitment to work with the Northern Ireland Executive to deliver the flagship cross-border Ulster Canal project. The Government has met with the Northern Ireland Executive on a number of occasions and most recently in November 2021, under the auspices of the North South Ministerial Council,  re-affirming their joint commitment to the Ulster...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of my Department is committed to the active management of the deer species within State owned National Parks and Nature Reserves and as part of its regular on-going management operations, NPWS carry out regular surveys, censuses and reports on deer in  our sites. Where appropriate, and depending on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: The works in question and the necessary environmental screening are under active consideration by the National Parks and Wildlife Service of my Department  and I have asked that this case be expedited.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Projects (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: The steering group being established will be called the Built Vernacular Heritage (Thatch) Steering Group. Its aim is to enhance the protection and conservation of historic thatched roofs under Action 6 of A Living Tradition: a strategy to enhance the understand, minding, and handing on of our built vernacular heritage, which was published by my Department and which I launched in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: The Programme for Government includes a commitment to ensure that each local authority has a sufficient number of biodiversity officers and heritage officers among their staff complement. The role of a biodiversity officer is prescribed at local level by the employing local authority. Biodiversity officers are the public face of biodiversity-related activities within the local authority,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: The LIFE programme is the EU's funding instrument supporting environmental, nature conservation and climate action projects. LIFE IP Wild Atlantic Nature is a large-scale project aimed at conservation and management of Ireland’s Natura 2000 network, with a special focus on blanket bog. This ambitious project, coordinated by the National Parks and Wildlife Service of my...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Disputes (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: 727. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the industrial action of medical scientists (details supplied); his views on same; the steps he will take to resolve the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27774/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: 784. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 653 of 17 May 2022, when a review of the current eligibility framework of the long-term illness scheme, which includes the basis for existing hospital and medication charges will be carried out under commitments given in the Sláintecare Implementation Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28116/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: 785. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 653 of 17 May 2022, if his attention has been drawn to the high costs associated with the ever-fluctuating severity and the long-term nature of Addison’s disease as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28117/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I will address amendments Nos. 1 and 4 together since they both relate to the title of the commission. I thank the Deputies for these proposed amendments. I note that section 9D of the Official Languages Act will require that all new statutory bodies be named in the Irish language. While this legislation is not yet commenced, I will give further consideration to the proposed amendments...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 12, to delete line 8 and substitute the following: “(k) section 25C; (l) section 85.”. I will address Government amendments Nos. 2, 33, 34, 62 to 64, inclusive, 71 to 73, inclusive, 81 and 104 to 109, inclusive, which have been grouped as they all relate to provisions for island voting. Amendment No. 2 amends section 3 of the Bill,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I will address amendments Nos. 5, 21, 22 and 24 together as they all relate to the placement of Irish language proficiency requirements on the ordinary members, staff, chairperson and chief executive of the commission. At the outset, I will say that I appreciate the rationale behind such requirements. However, as highlighted in pre-legislative scrutiny process, the commission requires a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputy. He is absolutely right to seek to ensure that we meet these Irish language competency requirements. However, I think it would not be a good idea to include the requirements in legislation outside of the provisions of the Official Languages Acts. I can assure the Deputy that our officials will engage with colleagues in the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 6: In page 17, line 2, to delete "a member" and substitute "an ordinary member". Government amendments Nos. 6 to 11, inclusive, clarify, for the avoidance of doubt, that certain terms and conditions set out in section 10, which relate to the length of terms office, reappointments and resignations, apply only to the commission's ordinary members. This is because such...