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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: Yes, but to be fair, there will be a second round.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: I ask Mr. O'Sullivan to hold that answer for the next round so we can keep a structure on the timing to give everyone a chance to get in. Those questions will be answered.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: Sorry, but this is not a back and forth. Through the Chair.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: We are tight on time for our second set of witnesses. I ask Deputy Ellis to be as brief as possible.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: We can certainly request that.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: Does the Senator wish to cc those questions to the entire committee? It would be a valuable exercise.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: That concludes the question and answer session. I thank our witnesses for their presence and co-operation. We will suspend briefly to allow our second group of witnesses from the County and City Management Association to take their seats.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: I thank the Senator. I thank Deputy Quinlivan for stepping into the Chair and call the Deputy.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: I believe a horse project would be a valuable addition, particularly where there are LEADER companies that would be willing to step up to the plate and work with the Traveller community. This is probably separate to the issue of accommodation, given the difficulties Ms Carr outlined as regards aligning 1.5 acres with accommodation. A separate peace incorporating the LEADER companies, in...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: Does anybody else wish to come in?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: That concludes our business this afternoon. On behalf of the committee, I thank all the witnesses for attending and answering our questions and for their opening statements. We look forward to working together in the coming years, no doubt.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the engagement he has had with a company (details supplied) in view of their closure announcement; the affirmative action the Government will take to ensure the company comply with their capital gains obligations around intellectual property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33306/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered any proposals to introduce and incentivise employee ownership trusts in Ireland similar to those available in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33309/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Closures (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: 256. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement he has had with the management and owners of a company (details supplied); the discussions he has had regarding finding a replacement company; the discussions he has had with regard to the future use of the premises; if the Government intends to purchase the property from the company to provide much-needed...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: 257. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to set out the supports he has put in place to assist university based enterprises to commercialise and grow in scale innovations and research discoveries made there; the discussions he has had with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to identify and incubate potential campus...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (19 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: 258. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to set out the supports to small businesses whose trade has been affected by the recent uncertainty created by the United States tariff changes for goods being imported into the US; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33308/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (12 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: 303. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out the name, location and extent of all lands currently vested in him, pursuant to Section 28 of the State Property Act 1954, in tabular form; the plans for the future utilisation of any of these lands; the specific powers he has under the State Property Act 1954; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31377/25]

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: We can all recite the litany of the dead. We watch nightly the systematic destruction of an entire people. By design, the current Government of Israel is ethnically cleansing the Gaza Strip, making life impossible to endure there. There can be no doubt that the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu is well advanced in implementing a plan to remove the Palestinian people from their historic...

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: I thank the witnesses. This is a really important area we are discussing. I am sorry I had to step out for part of the meeting. Scrutiny of the omnibus package is really important for our entire Continent and for the country. From what I gather, it is about simplifying, reporting and due diligence. We have made remarkable moves over the decades on workers' rights, human rights and...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Planning, Approving and Delivering Transport Infrastructure Projects: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

George Lawlor: I thank the Chairman for allowing me to come in on this discussion. I want to speak on a couple of issues but principally about the Oilgate to Rosslare motorway. I am old enough and long enough at this game to have been around for the original route selection for that road. Of course, with the economic collapse, everything was sidelined. Then, as our guests have alluded to, the...