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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: I cannot give a specific response to that but this legislation-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: -----is bringing about the ratification-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: -----of these two important treaties.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: We have not ratified them. We need the legislation specifically to do that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: I know the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, is already working on that. It would be the Minister with responsibility for culture who would lead on that, not our Department.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: Exactly.
- Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: At the outset, before I go into my scripted speech, I would like to thank all the Deputies. I want to thank Deputy Fitzmaurice, and I would like to state that it is not the Government's intention to cause division by tabling a countermotion. I really appreciate the constructive engagement the Deputy has consistently shown down the years with the peatlands in particular. I thank Deputy...
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: First, I would like to outline some of the background to the Bill and the context around it at this point. The Bill has had a long and somewhat complex road to get to this point. The purpose of the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016 is to give legal effect to the proposed reconfiguration of the raised bog natural heritage area network. This reconfiguration arises from a national study of our...
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: That is correct.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: Amendments Nos. 1, 1c and 2 are being taken together as they relate to one another. I will speak to these amendments together, if that is okay. Amendment No. 1, as proposed by the Seanad, amends section 16 of the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000. Section 16 sets out the statutory process for when a Minister intends to designate a natural heritage area. Amendment No. 1 was a Government...
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: I move: That the Committee do not agree with the Seanad in amendment No. 2 to the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: I move consequential amendment No. 1c: Section 2: In page 3, lines 12 to 14, to delete all words from and including “Section” in line 12 down to and including line 14 and substitute the following: “Section 16 of the Act of 2000 is amended— (a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1): “(1) Where the Minister is of the...
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: I move: That the Committee do not agree with the Seanad in amendment No. 3 to the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016. Amendments Nos. 3, 3c and 4 to 11, inclusive, are grouped and I propose to talk through these together. The Bill amends the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000 by the insertion of a new section - section 18A - after section 18 of that Act. Section 18A sets out how the 2014 review...
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: Perhaps I do. The Government amendments seeks to respect the decision that was made in the Seanad. We moved out the prescriptive element of specifying greenways or golf courses. It was already in amendment No. 4 and that was rejected. Regarding the NHA review, we will have to look at all criteria. The Deputies referred to the provision regarding "national, regional and local economic,...
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: I move consequential amendment No. 3c: Section 4: In page 4, to delete lines 5 to 11 and substitute the following: "(b) contributing to the carbon sequestration potential of bog habitats; (c) contributing to actions, relevant to bog habitats, contained in a national plan or a plan for the island of Ireland, concerning the reversal of pollinator decline; (d) selecting the most suitable...
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: I move: That the Committee do not agree with the Seanad in amendment No. 4 to the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: I move: That the Committee do not agree with the Seanad in amendment No. 11 to the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016.
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: This is a Government amendment to put Ireland's national biodiversity plans on a statutory footing and create a public duty in respect of biodiversity for public bodies. The amendment introduces a new Part to the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000 and new sections 59A to 59H. The proposal to introduce such an amendment was approved by the Seanad without a vote. Under the amendment, the...
- Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Noonan: Seanad amendment No. 13 is an Opposition amendment from the Seanad. The Bill, as passed by the Seanad, contained a new section as a result of amendment No. 13. This new section provides that the Minister will, within 12 months of the passing of the Bill, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas containing guidelines and recommended thresholds in relation to the exercise of turbary...