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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Organic Farming (2 Apr 2025)

Noel Grealish: I thank the Deputy for his comments. It is great that a Dublin TD is talking about farmers' markets, which is very important. I spoke about this in my first speech to this Dáil when a number of the TDs from Dublin were talking about the farming community. Farmers put an awful lot into the economy in Ireland and I am great a supporter of farmers' markets. We have very successful ones...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Organic Farming (2 Apr 2025)

Noel Grealish: I agree with the Deputy on that and I will look at it, along with my colleagues here. The second call closed on 7 March and relates to a €3 million fund to develop and promote our organic sector to cover the period of 2025 to 2027. The applicants were asked to submit their applications for that. It is in process at the moment and the announcements will hopefully be made by the end...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Organic Farming (2 Apr 2025)

Noel Grealish: Go raibh maith agat, Deputy Geoghegan, for the question. I am a great supporter of the farmer markets and organic food markets. In 2023 the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine awarded €1.1 million to 12 projects to promote and develop the organic sector over 2023 and 2024. One of the successful applications was to hold an organic food fair in Merrion Square, and this...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Noel Grealish: You should withdraw it.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Noel Grealish: I am delighted to vote confidence in the Ceann Comhairle. Verona Murphy is a formidable lady and the first woman ever elected to the office. Despite encountering difficulty in carrying out the duties of the office, she has always been impartial, fair and independent in her actions. Verona was first elected to represent Wexford in 2020. Since then, she has proven to be a strong voice...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Noel Grealish: Hear, hear. They should be ashamed of themselves.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Noel Grealish: Deputy Bacik should withdraw that comment. They got elected here the same as her.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Noel Grealish: Hear, hear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Noel Grealish: Get a majority and vote it down.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Noel Grealish: You still do not have enough for Government.

Importance of Agrifood to the Irish Economy: Statements (20 Feb 2025)

Noel Grealish: I know. It was my first speech as a Minister of State.

Importance of Agrifood to the Irish Economy: Statements (20 Feb 2025)

Noel Grealish: I thank everyone for their contributions and for their messages of goodwill to the Minister, Deputy Heydon, and me. My good friend, Deputy Fitzmaurice, said they were giving us a short stay of execution. I hope I get a bit of a longer one because I am only new in this Department, while the Minister has been there for the past five years. Listened to the debate, I note what Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Grant Payments (6 Nov 2024)

Noel Grealish: 38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the grant for electric taxis will continue in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45355/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Special Areas of Conservation (5 Nov 2024)

Noel Grealish: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason no meaningful habitat enhancement works have been carried out on the Owenriff system in County Galway that straddles two special areas of conservation due to the devastating ecological effects of an illegal introduction of invasive pike esox lucius circa 2009, considering that the now defunct Western...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (5 Nov 2024)

Noel Grealish: 106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason, given that the initial public consultation on the proposed Waterford Fisheries District, (River Barrow) Angling Limitations during Salmon Spawning Run Bye-Law (No. 1011) 2024, signed on 17 September this year, ran for a two-week period ending on 20 August 2019, it took five years for a basic fisheries...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Angling Sector (5 Nov 2024)

Noel Grealish: 107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the Angling Consultative Council of Ireland (ACCI) established by himself in November 2020 has now been rebranded as the Angling Advisory Group (AAG); who the participants are in the AAG; the key policy targets of the AAG; why there was no public notification surrounding the revamp considering the overt and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (5 Nov 2024)

Noel Grealish: 108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44008/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (5 Nov 2024)

Noel Grealish: 189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of electric vehicle, EV, buses deployed in Ireland over the past three years; the breakdown of these EV buses between State-run public transport services and the commercial bus sector during this period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44003/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (5 Nov 2024)

Noel Grealish: 190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific measures and incentives his Department has introduced to promote the uptake of electric buses across both public and commercial transport sectors; how effective these measures have been to date; if he is satisfied that the current rate of EV bus deployment and other sustainable transport initiatives will allow the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (5 Nov 2024)

Noel Grealish: 258. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of properties in Dublin that qualified for the help-to-buy scheme in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44196/24]