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Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: -----because it is not profitable and it will destroy much of the amenity, such as the scenery, that is the Golden Vale. Where do we marry the incentive for the profit line for land that is not currently afforested and how do we provide a greater incentive for farmers and landowners to get into planting? No doubt more jobs will grow from extra planting. In our constituency, Medite, which...

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: We will be warm this winter. Hopefully, we will not need to buy too much coal. The timescale of the felling licences is something that has concerned those in the sector. Can the Minister of State clarify whether the Bill will reduce that timescale? Currently, it takes up to 12 months to get a licence. That is too long, if somebody is trying to organise to bring in machinery and to agree...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)

Denis Landy: Councillors from all parties throughout the country have brought to my attention a further problem with Irish Water. Irish Water is refusing to instruct the local authority as its agent to carry out repairs to housing estates that have not been taken into charge where problems occur with pumping stations with sewerage, etc. My county, Tipperary, has 40 estates that have not been taken in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Commercial and Domestic Property Supply and Demand: Property Industry Ireland (23 Sep 2014)

Denis Landy: What was the price of the apartment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Commercial and Domestic Property Supply and Demand: Property Industry Ireland (23 Sep 2014)

Denis Landy: It could be but it was not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Commercial and Domestic Property Supply and Demand: Property Industry Ireland (23 Sep 2014)

Denis Landy: I thank the witnesses for attending. I will be very quick in making my observations and asking my questions. On development levies, the delegation is correct that each local authority sets a development levy. However, it is the autonomous role of elected members at local level, and I do not subscribe in any way to the view that this process should be centralised. It would be taking away...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Denis Landy: Step 1, taking orders; step 2, acting on orders. I welcome everybody back to the Chamber. We had a great summer, and a great sporting summer. Last November I raised concerns about Hayes' Hotel in Thurles but I am pleased that, ten months on, Hayes' Hotel was purchased yesterday by a Tipperary man who intends to develop the hotel as an iconic building incorporating all the history of the...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Kelly. This is the first time he has come before us since his elevation.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: I apologise. This is the first occasion on which I have been in the House when the Minister has been present. As the Minister stated, this Bill is a technical measure to ensure that democracy can be seen to be working to its fullest in this House. I am pleased Fianna Fáil has decided to support the Bill. All of those who are elected to serve, either here or at some other level,...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: Just before giving out to him.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: My issue relates somewhat to what Senator White has raised, and I support her points. I have come from a committee meeting this morning where we did not know which Minister we should contact about an issue. I ask the Leader to ask the Government to issue a document today to all Members of the House to clarify the roles within the new Ministries. It is extremely important that we know to...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Tree Remediation (10 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: I thank the Minister of State for his very comprehensive reply. I appreciate that a great deal of work has been done in respect of this matter and that we are all as one in terms of trying to control this disease. On foot of the statistics provided by the Minister of State, it is quite obvious that we are not going to have sufficient ash to make hurleys for the next few years. There is a...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Tree Remediation (10 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, for engaging in this Adjournment debate. It is unfortunate for the Minister of State because this matter was tabled by me last week and the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Tom Hayes, who is a good Tipperary man, as am I, was supposed to deal with it. In the intervening period he put the Minister of...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: The Minister of State has demonstrated that Fianna Fáil is a broad church. I support him in allaying concerns about this part of the Bill. I am hopeful that the ethic of the RPII can improve the ethic of the EPA in regard to the issues I raised earlier. When I criticised the lack of response by certain organs of the EPA it was based solely on the evidence. I was not criticising...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: The Minister of State’s last word was “transparent”. He gave the EPA a ringing endorsement today.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: Yes, I respect it is due to his personal experience. However, I respectfully ask him to read the Official Report of last night’s contributions by Senators James Heffernan, Tony Mulcahy and John Whelan.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: They raised three cases in Limerick, Clare and Portlaoise involving the EPA in which it has failed dismally to act as the environmental watchdog of the State and the citizen. Coming from County Louth and the issues concerning Sellafield, I accept no one is better versed and experienced with environmental issues than the Minister of State. It is important, however, his endorsement stands up....

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: On Second Stage yesterday, we discussed the entity that will be the merged Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland, RPII, and the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. I made the point in that debate, and repeat it now, that it is important the role of the RPII is not lost but the research material provided to us indicates that a working group was set up to ensure the merger works...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: If he is, I assure him he will be back in this House discussing this issue further. We are on a watching brief with regard to this matter but if we do not see results from what was committed to last night, we will revisit it. As far as I am concerned, much of the work the EPA is charged with doing on behalf of the citizens of this country is not being done in the way it should be done.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Denis Landy: It is not often I am knocked off my perch.