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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Registration Office: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: That is good to know. I want to briefly touch on the area of bogus and fake companies. Mr. Newham will be aware that my colleague, the Chair of the committee, an Teachta Quinlivan, has written to the Department about the CRO’s response to this. It is an area that I know the Chair has done quite an amount of work on. I ask Mr. Newham to outline what the Department has done since...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Registration Office: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Chairman for giving me the opportunity to come back in. I will refer to a newspaper article that referenced companies that have been in receipt of pandemic subsidies and have subsequently paid out dividends. One company in particular - it is named in the article so I will name it here - O'Flaherty Holdings, which made operating profits of €10 million in 2020 through MML...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Registration Office: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I mentioned the specific name because it is mentioned in the article, but I would be very grateful for a reply. I also have a view about this practice. I am sure my view is shared by the vast majority of people, perhaps not those in the Isle of Man, but certainly those who are paying their taxes here. I will leave it at that.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I extend my thanks to my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, not just for this Private Members' business, which I know he has worked on with other Members of the Opposition, but also for his continued work in this area, which I think we can all agree is very valuable. The Minister and I know that this is sensible legislation. It is, I imagine, legislation that will be relatively easy for him...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the owner or shareholders of National Broadband Ireland have the ability to sell the business and assets of National Broadband Ireland after or before full deployment of the network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61547/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Cybersecurity Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the future direction for the State to ensure that Ireland’s connected future is safe; and if the State has plans to develop its cyber-security capabilities in this regard. [61244/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) with reference to European Court of Justice case C-247/85, Commission v. Belgium, 1985. [61376/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series of matters (details supplied) with reference to European Court of Justice case C-247/85, Commission v. Belgium, 1985. [61377/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service are primarily responsible for ensuring that the State is compliant with the EU Habitats Directive and the EU Birds Directive in particular the Habitats Directive Articles 2 and 16.1.a, .b and .c and the Birds Directive Articles 2 and 9.1.a. [61378/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to annual wild birds' derogation declarations. [61379/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether high density European herring gull colonies have been enabled to proliferate exponentially in urban areas as policy under legal protection administered by his Department and without being subject to management and control in view of the results of the National Survey of Urban Gulls commissioned in May to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether freely proliferating high density European herring gull colonies are impacting negatively and seriously on communities in ways that are egregiously antisocial (details supplied); his views on the supporting evidence held by his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service on each of these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series of matters in relation to the birds directive (details supplied). [61382/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the meaning of adapt the population in Article 1 of the birds directive in the contexts set out in Article 16.1.c of the habitats directive and Article 2 of the birds directive; and if this legal responsibility placed on member states by the European Commission in the directives includes upwards and downwards adaptation of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the meaning of, in the interests of public health and public safety, or for other imperative reasons of overriding public interest, including those of a social or economic nature, in Article 16.1.c of the habitats directive; and if he is satisfied that his Department is properly meeting its responsibilities in each of these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to the results of the National Survey of Urban Gulls commissioned in the period May to June 2021. [61388/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to the results of the National Survey of Urban Gulls commissioned in the period May to June 2021. [61389/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series of matters (details supplied) with reference to the 2021 National Survey of Urban Seagulls commissioned by his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Seabird 2000 Census Report 2002. [61393/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether it is now essential to urgently implement recommendation 8 of the report of his predecessor’s consultative committee on urban seagulls of 17 April 2020 in the interests of public health and safety in line with emphatic legal advices provided to him via the committee in August 2020 and February...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series on matters in relation to the urban gull population (details supplied). [61400/21]