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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Schemes (28 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: My Department provides financial support for the protection of eligible heritage buildings and historic structures through two grant schemes which are, in the main, administered by the local authorities. These are the Historic Structures Fund (HSF) and the Built Heritage Investment Scheme (BHIS). A third scheme, the Community Monuments Fund (CMF) provides investment in archaeological...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Register of Electors (28 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: The Programme for Government - Our Shared Future commits to a broad range of electoral reforms including the modernisation of voter registration.  Proposals to modernise the electoral registration process include the introduction of rolling (continuously updated) registration; the simplification of forms and the overall registration process, and the use of PPSNs in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Commission (28 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: The Programme for Government – Our Shared Future - includes a number of commitments on electoral reform including the establishment of an independent, statutory Electoral Commission.  These commitments are the Government’s immediate goals in terms of electoral reform and are currently being prioritised by way of the Electoral Reform Bill 2022. The Electoral...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (28 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 272 and 273 together. A national hare survey, commissioned by the National Parks & Wildlife Service (NPWS) of my Department, took place in 2018 and 2019. The project was carried out, under tender, by an experienced team of wildlife biologists and hare researchers from Queens University, Belfast. The aim of this project was to estimate the current mean...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Register of Electors (28 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: The Programme for Government - Our Shared Future commits to a broad range of electoral reforms including the modernisation of voter registration.   The Electoral Reform Bill provides the legislative underpinning for the modernisation among other things, including the establishment of an independent Electoral Commission.  The Bill is currently making its way...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (28 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 276, 277 and 278 together. A detailed review of the capture, monitoring and euthanasia techniques used for mink was carried out for the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of my Department  in 2009 and is published in full here: www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/publications/pdf/IWM40.pdf The review explored the different strategies used in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: The Programme for Government outlines our ambition to tackle the biodiversity crisis and includes a commitment to ensure that each local authority has a sufficient number of biodiversity officers and heritage officers among their staff complement.  Local authorities are uniquely positioned, within their own biodiversity plans and working with communities, to help halt biodiversity loss....

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart Vótála ag Aois 16) 2021: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Vote at 16) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank everyone who contributed. I do not want the young people either in the Public Gallery or watching online to be despondent from this debate; quite the opposite. As Deputy Nash said, this will progress in a positive way. On timing, I will task the commission to look at this piece of work very early on so that we can prepare for our next electoral event, which will be the 2024 local...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart Vótála ag Aois 16) 2021: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Vote at 16) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I am pleased to address the Dáil on the Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Vote at 16) Bill 2021, as brought forward by Deputy Pringle. This presents an opportunity to discuss the age at which persons should be entitled to vote in elections and referendums in Ireland. This Bill proposes to amend Article 16 of the Constitution to lower the age at which persons would...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Admissions (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I agree wholeheartedly with the Deputy's closing remark. I mentioned in my opening statement that the Minister met senior officials from the HSE yesterday to discuss the issues in University Hospital Limerick and the immediate responses required to address the pressures being faced by all 29 emergency departments. The Minister was updated on the progress of the University Hospital Limerick...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart Vótála ag Aois 16) 2021: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Vote at 16) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 1: "To delete the word 'now' and add at the end of the motion the words 'on 30th June, 2023'.".

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Admissions (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I welcome the opportunity to address the House on this important issue raised by Deputy O’Donnell. I wish to acknowledge the distress that overcrowded EDs cause to patients, their families and front-line staff who are working in very challenging conditions in hospitals throughout the country. The Minister has visited UHL and has been concerned for some time about the emergency...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for raising this matter and giving me the opportunity to outline to the House the position on the accommodation in place for Tramore Educate Together National School. Tramore Educate Together National School was established in 2014 under the patronage divesting process. The patronage divesting process arises from the recommendations of the 2012 report of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: Given the points the Deputy has raised, it is important that the Department of Education re-engage on this and give it some further consideration. Considering the constraints the Deputy mentioned, particularly after what we have been through with the pandemic, it is critical that this school building is fit for purpose in respect of spacing, layout and future expansion. Census data have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Regeneration Projects (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: The Deputy and I have discussed this issue on a number of occasions, as has the Minister, Deputy O'Brien. I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, in particular the European committee ruling and the regeneration of social housing flats in inner city Dublin. The Government and my Department, in particular, have given careful consideration to the report of the European Committee of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Regeneration Projects (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I agree wholeheartedly with the Deputy. We recognise the need to modernise and bring living conditions up to acceptable standards. All of these developments have the objective of improving the living conditions of residents and to that end Dublin City Council is developing a long-term strategy for the redevelopment and-or refurbishment of many of these complexes. In addition to Glovers...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputy for giving me this opportunity to update the House on this matter, which is one of the Government's top priorities for action this year. The report of the working group on access to contraception, published in October 2019, identified the barriers that exist to accessing contraception. These barriers include accessibility, information, health system capacity and, for a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: My closing statement might provide clarification. The free contraception scheme for those aged 17 to 25 represents a wonderful opportunity to increase access to contraception and to better support sexual and reproductive healthcare in Ireland. We hope that the measures will significantly reduce crisis pregnancy rates among this high-risk cohort, who are also the most likely to experience...

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputies who contributed. I am making these closing remarks on behalf of the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, who has other commitments this evening. I take on board the points raised by the Deputies. There were many similar themes relating to the ongoing, unfortunate challenges in terms of discrimination, especially those affecting the trans community, including recent debates...

Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendments Nos. 1, 5 and 7 are technical corrections to correct the Irish language version of the name of the register known in the English language as the Construction Industry Register Ireland from “Clár Tionscal Tógála na hÉireann” to “Clár Tionscail Foirgníochta na hÉireann”.