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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: Amendment No. 41 is out of order as a potential charge on the State.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: We are on amendment No. 42.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: Amendments Nos. 43 and 44 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: Amendments Nos. 45 to 64, inclusive, 66 to 91, inclusive, and 93 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: Is the Deputy accepting a background note to this, or further information on it?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: We have concluded Committee Stage of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023. I thank all members for their contributions. I thank the Minister and all his officials who attended here. We have had a very good exchange on the Bill. I offer my sincere thanks to everyone and to the clerk to the committee and others who have attended here.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Message to Dáil (8 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the Finance Bill 2023 and has made amendments thereto.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: My thanks to the members who chaired the different sessions.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: The Minister has ignored everything and he has gone with the line from his Department, a line that has caused nothing but trouble for Dan Brennan. The Irish Farmers' Association and the people of Kilkenny are looking on at this and they believe there was something wrong. If the Minister wants new evidence, he should look at the date the factory closed and at what happened on Dan Brennan's...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: I ask the Minister not to be guided by what he is reading from the Department. I ask him to listen to Dan Brennan for God's sake and take a compassionate view on it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: Make comparison with now and the factory being closed. Make that comparison and look at what is not being included. The Minister cannot walk away from this. He cannot do it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: And the transcripts.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: But there was.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: Will the Minister come back to the House?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: Will the Minister come back to the House?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: There was. The Minister does not believe what he read out.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: I concur with and add to what Deputy Cahill has said. This has gone on for a significant number of years. In fact, former Members of this House such as Mary White were part of the initial group of Deputies who were making themselves available to support Dan Brennan. In 2006, the Minister of the day sent a representative to Dan Brennan's farm and found he was an excellent farmer. Everyone...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (7 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: 650. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to update the 2006 wind energy development guidelines relative to the changes in that sector, such as technology and the size of a single turbine and how these turbines adversely affect local communities; the status of the 2019 guidelines; to outline his intentions relative to the need for such guidelines; if...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (7 Nov 2023)

John McGuinness: 651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline his position on each of four matters (details supplied) relative to the development/improvement of Government policy on wind farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48024/23]