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Written Answers — National Landscape Strategy: National Landscape Strategy (28 May 2009)

John Gormley: My Department has established a Steering Group comprised of all key stakeholders to develop and progress a National Landscape Strategy (NLS). The aim of the (NLS) is to establish principles and provide the framework for promoting sustainable development, protecting and enhancing the landscape and positively managing its change as well as providing the context within which the design of...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (28 May 2009)

John Gormley: Under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, I may not exercise any power or control in a particular case with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála may be concerned. The Planning and Development Act 2000 introduced changes to the operation of the development contributions system, including the introduction of a statutory requirement that such contributions may now be...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: With the permission of the House I will share my time with Deputies Mary White and Ciarán Cuffe. I join with other Members in congratulating Deputies Maureen O'Sullivan and George Lee. I wish them well in their future political careers. I congratulate all the candidates who ran in the European and local elections. It is difficult to be a candidate because one puts oneself on the line....

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: I will not do so. However, this is a little silver lining in what has been a very difficult and disappointing election. I pay tribute to the men and women of my party, people of integrity and ability, who put themselves forward and many of whom were rejected. They suffered because of a national situation and the worst recession in the history of the State and because the Government has had...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: The Opposition steals our ideas even though its members say they do not like them. We have proposed a tax on second homes. I would have thought parties on the left would see that as a good idea.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: The Labour Party has rejected that idea. I am not sure if Sinn Féin is in favour of it.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: I have heard other people say they are not.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: We are proposing a climate change Bill

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: The Labour Party has come forward with a climate change Bill. I took the opportunity to read its Bill. It is utterly flawed. People in the Labour Party do not understand how the emissions trading system works. They do not understand the post-Kyoto situation. They propose a climate change Bill but reject the idea of a carbon levy. That is not joined up thinking. This is the sort of...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: If he saw the recent "Prime Time" programme, he will know that many of his party colleagues were involved in some of those over-zonings.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: No, absolutely not.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: The Government's planning Bill goes to the heart of the matter. It requires development proposals, which will make vast profits for individuals, to take into account the national spatial strategy and regional planning guidelines. When Fine Gael councillors over-zoned they were not taken to task by any of their colleagues in the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party. This was disgraceful and was...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: I defy any Member to reject that legislation.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: These are the ideas we are putting forward.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: We have created 10,000 new green jobs in the past couple of months.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: Those are the facts and they have been outlined in some detail. There are major problems and I regret-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: Did the Deputy mention Castlebar?

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: Castlebar has been completely over-zoned by the Fine Gael Party and Deputy Kenny did not make a single intervention to address it. On the contrary, the Fine Gael Party leader indicated he would join with councillors in any action they may take against me, as Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. These are the contradictions I constantly see in Fine Gael and the Labour...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: Our colleagues in government support the planning Bill and we make up a majority in the House. Green Party Deputies will go through the lobbies because we believe the Government is doing a good job and will continue to do so. It is as simple as that. As far as contradictions are concerned, and there are many of them, my colleagues opposite may not be aware of a development case last week...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

John Gormley: -----which received thousands of pounds from the banks. We also had bank write-offs and so on.