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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: If the Attorney General's response is to come back and say, "Go on ahead there is no legal issue here", is the Department ready to legislate? Has it the legislation, which would include services, drafted and ready to go? Would there be no issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I understand the message from Mr. Smyth that it is a legal question not a political one but pardon me for not feeling that there is a great level of political will on the part of the Government to drive this on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: And Bunmahon?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I think a very willing community would be found in Bunmahon, in particular.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I acknowledge that all these issues are not of Uisce Éireann's making and it asked the Government for significant funding a year and a half ago to address some of these issues but it did not materialise. It is important, however, for me to have mentioned those two examples. I thank the witnesses for their responses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Rural communities are being hollowed out right across the State because of the housing crisis. Towns and villages are facing demographic cliff edges in many cases. Young people cannot buy or build homes where they grew up right across rural Ireland. In many cases, this is down to inaction by the Government, but in many other cases, it is down to a lack of critical infrastructure,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of funding provided by his Department to local authorities per site under the affordable serviced sites scheme; the average cost per site incurred by local authorities in developing such serviced sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35814/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fishing Industry (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 186. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rationale for treating the Suir river system as three distinct salmon fisheries for regulatory purposes; and if he will review this classification to ensure integrated management of the estuary, lower and upper river. [36129/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fishing Industry (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider introducing a non-commercial ‘heritage salmon fishing licence’ to allow intergenerational skills and local culture in the Suir estuary to be retained, under a conservation framework. [36133/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an appeal for the July Provision for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35709/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an appeal for the July Provision for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35710/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Reports (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 418. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has received the interim report of the Advisory Committee on Restitution and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage; if not, when he expects to receive this report; if he will publish the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36158/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 618. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his Department’s policy on land eligibility for CAP payments where bracken or heather encroachment has occurred due to natural conditions beyond a farmer’s control. [35816/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 619. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has considered reintroducing or substituting a safe chemical alternative to Asulox for bracken control in uplands. [35817/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Conservation (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 620. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support the establishment of a new EIP or pilot project to support sustainable grazing, biodiversity and wildfire prevention in the Comeragh Mountains. [35818/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Funding (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 643. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will commit to funding a community neuro-rehabilitation team for the southeast in Budget 2026, in line with the Programme for Government commitment to complete the national rollout. [34817/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 878. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail all business cases received for capital works in each technological university, including the date received, the current status of each and the timeline for progression, in tabular form. [35964/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 879. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail all options papers received from technological universities in relation to the development of student accommodation, including the date received, the current status of each, in tabular form, and the timeline for progression. [35965/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 880. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department’s plans to address the shortage of affordable student accommodation in Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35966/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 881. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legislative basis by which technological universities, including SETU, may borrow to fund capital expenditure; if the relevant provisions have been commenced; and if not, the timeline for giving effect to them. [35967/25]