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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Mairead Farrell: I move amendment No. 164: In page 66, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Report on introduction of measures to combat hoarding of land 55. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the introduction of measures to combat the hoarding of land needed for development, examining the options...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 Oct 2022)

Mairead Farrell: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the proposed development of affordable housing by the Land Development Agency, Sandy Road, Galway; if the land is owned by the Land Development Agency; the level of funding that has been committed to the Land Development Agency to enable the project to proceed; when the planning permission will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 Oct 2022)

Mairead Farrell: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the proposed development of affordable housing by the Land Development Agency, Dyke Road, Galway; if the land is owned by the Land Development Agency; the level of funding that has been committed to the Land Development Agency to enable the project to proceed; when the planning permission will be sought...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...statement to keep myself in check because there were so many. In that statement, it was noted that the commission has set out that a site value tax could also accommodate the principle of a zoned land tax. That is very important. I am interested in hearing the witnesses' views on that. We have all seen evidence of swathes of land that have been zoned, sometimes for years, on which...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Mairead Farrell: ...in Galway. There are places in Galway where it is badly needed, not only as a revenue raiser - obviously, that can be important as well - but also as a way to change behaviour when it comes to land banking and speculation. Is there any good data on how prevalent that land banking and land speculation is? How much would such a tax bring in? What impact would it have on easing the price...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Mairead Farrell: There has been a lot of commentary over the past week about the sale of land in Patrickswell, County Limerick. It has been reported that in December 2006 a solicitor acting on behalf of the wife of the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, wrote to the council seeking to purchase the land and that then, the following month, councillors, including Deputy Collins, voted to allow the council...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (24 Sep 2020)

Mairead Farrell: 111. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the identity of the purchaser for each of the public lands and properties listed in the response to Parliamentary Question No. 347 of 8 September 2020 relating to the number and location of all sales of lands and property owned by Údarás na Gaeltachta in County Galway in the past ten years. [26037/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (13 Feb 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 136. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a US Navy Hercules KC130T aircraft was allowed to land and refuel at Shannon Airport on two occasions recently (details supplied); the reason this aircraft was allowed to land and refuel at Shannon Airport in breach of international laws on neutrality; and if steps were taken to ensure that this aircraft was not transporting...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...General’s worrying conclusion was that the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group had "pledged publicly-funded assets in return for bank finance for the development of its private hospital". In other words, the land on which we are going to build this hospital has been used as collateral for other transactions. It was used as collateral to raise debt and for the development of St....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (24 Feb 2021)

Mairead Farrell: 1089. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tonnage and value of first point of sale of fish landed at each of the six fishery harbour centres in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10196/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (26 May 2021)

Mairead Farrell: 237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the appropriate action a farmer should take in the event of a livestock being grazed on their land without permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28553/21]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2021)

Mairead Farrell: It would be at the level of a local GAA club or soccer club rather than somebody saying people go for walks on their land. It would have to be firmer than that.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Properties (12 Dec 2023)

Mairead Farrell: 374. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the level of land bank that Údarás na Gaeltachta has that is suitable for housing broken down, by county and by size; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55103/23]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2020)

Mairead Farrell: I welcome that commitment. That is good news. We cannot overstate the impact of land hoarding. I will not name any sites but anybody who lives in Galway city or who has been to the city knows exactly what I am talking about. I thank the Minister and I welcome that.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (25 Oct 2022)

Mairead Farrell: 155. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide the full list of sites theIDA holds in its land bank; the locations of these sites; their size in hectares and current zoned status in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52988/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Passenger Data (15 Sep 2020)

Mairead Farrell: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the nationality of the 26 passengers on board an aircraft (details supplied) that flew from Washington DC and landed in Dublin Airport at approximately 00:49 on 26 June 2020 and that departed Dublin Airport for Benghazi, Libya, at 02:10 approximately on 26 June 2020. [24017/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Airport Facilities (14 Jul 2020)

Mairead Farrell: 264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an aircraft (details supplied) was given approval to land and refuel at Shannon Airport on 1 July 2020; if the aircraft was approved to transport weapons, munitions or other military materials through Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15961/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (8 Sep 2020)

Mairead Farrell: 347. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number and location of all sales of lands and property owned by Údarás na Gaeltachta in County Galway in the past ten years; the price received by the State from each sale; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21180/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (23 Feb 2023)

Mairead Farrell: ...Affairs and Trade his views on the prospects for a two state solution given the new Israeli Governments' stated position that Jews alone have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the land of Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9419/23]

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Mairead Farrell: When will the west wake up and realise that Israel is an apartheid state and has to be treated as such? How much more Palestinian land will be colonised? How much longer can international law continue to be violated and how many more Palestinians will be murdered? I recognise that the Government is a strong supporter of Palestinian people, but it is time we did far more. It is time we...