Results 101-120 of 341 for does speaker:Malcolm Noonan

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Oct 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...emphasise that the Green Paper is not a final design and no changes will be made to the current payments at this time. The Green Paper is a proposal on what the future of long-term disability payments could look like. It does not claim to be the best way or the only way to change the structure of our payments. The proposals in the Green Paper represent a starting point for a structured...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...helped communities and custodians of built heritage like that to conserve and put in management plans for their conservation. I also point the Deputy in the direction of the Irish Follies Trust, which does fantastic work. We did some work with the trust on the pyramid mausolea in the graveyard in Naas. I urge the Deputies to see them if they get the chance. They are fantastic. The...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: Does it include the definition of "archaeological object"?

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...than what would be provided under the Valletta Convention. Amending the Bill in the manner suggested in the amendment would greatly reduce the scope of what the Bill intends to provide for. The definition as proposed does not specify that the sites and structures covered in the definition are to be of archaeological interest. While such a requirement could be implied, a more precise...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...of the intention behind Seanad amendment No. 4 in that it includes facilities and projects that can be of significant benefit to a community or to strategic infrastructure development. However, it does not specifically prescribe them. In this way, it is much less likely that dedesignations would happen because of individual prescribed projects. Nonetheless, the significance of...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...has significantly strengthened the Bill. On that basis, an alternative amendment was proposed for the Dáil Stage, which captures the overall intention of the amendment passed in the Seanad but does not hold up the completion of the 2014 review. The replacement amendment will ensure that no de-designation of a blanket bog natural heritage area could occur before a wide review of...

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...our national vehicle for conservation, its mission to protect nature is a call to duty for Government, community and corporate alike. There is no deal that can be struck with nature to stop its decline. She does not negotiate. There is, however, a deal we can strike with ourselves to make the change and to punctuate the beginning of the end of negative impacts for nature. There is a...

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...previously occurred. I saw this at first hand on a visit to Killarney some weeks ago. It really is an incredible, co-ordinated effort. Through the Killarney National Park liaison committee, the NPWS is also engaging with a volunteer group that does patrols to further support early detection. International collaboration with peers in the USA, Canada, Australia and the UK is also ongoing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...under the Forestry Act 2014 and a licence under Part 7 of the enacted Bill could be required. Section 26(2)(b) makes it explicitly clear that the disapplication applying to the other State body does not apply to the carrying out of works. In the example I mentioned, a person proposing to carry out works, or actually carrying out the works, would require two licences: one from the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 245: In page 126, after line 32, to insert the following: “(3) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), this section (apart from this subsection) does not apply to— (i) the authorisation of a proposal for the carrying out of a relevant activity, or (ii) the authorisation of the carrying out of a relevant activity, where such authorisation (whether a licence,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...proposed in this amendment, MARA may, at the request of the Minister or the applicant or on its own initiative, take over a licence application made under the Foreshore Act 1933. If MARA does so, any determination that has already been made in relation to that application under the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 can be adopted by MARA to avoid...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ..., installation of navigational markings, and the installation of non-permanent platforms, pontoons or slipways. A licence under the Foreshore Act is generally issued for a development that does not require exclusive occupation of the foreshore. Examples would include repair work, some coastal protection work, undersea pipelines, cables, site investigation works, dredging works and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...in Ireland and in other jurisdictions, in the case of certain cables. These amendments address this issue. In brief, Part 11 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act, 2021 sets out that certain types of development in the maritime area require planning permission and it does not contain any specific exemptions that may already have other consents, particularly in the outer...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...in respect of amendment No. 306, there is an amendment to the formula calculating the amount of rates to be levied under section 4(2) to include reference to a date on which such calculation is made. There is currently ambiguity in that the section does not identify the valuation list, on a specific date, to be used in the levying of this rate. The rate is to be calculated on the last...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ..., I agree with the central intention of the Seanad amendment. On that basis, an alternative amendment is proposed which captures the overall intention of the amendment passed in the Seanad but does not hold up the completion of the 2014 review. The replacement amendment would ensure that no de-designation of a blanket bog NHA could occur before a wide review of blanket bogs across the...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...to areas to be rewetted, and this was never the case. Even the original Commission proposal saw rewetting as part of the restoration measure, but not all of it. The restoration of drained peatlands does not necessarily mean bringing the water table to surface level, and rewetting is just one of several tools available for the restoration of target ecosystems. As my colleague the Minister...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: .... The primary purpose of this is to assist landowners or other persons, for example, members of the farming community, to be able to easily identify the limits of a monument. The proposed amendment does not meet the purpose of section 14(5) and, if accepted, could work against what is trying to be achieved here, that is, the easily recognisable boundaries of a monument. On amendments...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...that specifies where the registered monuments are located will specify what level of protection applies to the monuments listed and contain any other relevant information. As drafted, the Bill does not provide for an end date by which such notices should be displayed and, accordingly, these amendments set an end date for the availability of general list and revised general list notices....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...from writing to the Minister of the day if they have concerns. That could be taken into consideration. We have a level of strength within the Bill in terms of decision-making. In that sense, it does strengthen the level of protection that is there. I will not specifically reference the Aarhus Convention. It applies in respect of public participation and access to information on the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...done under licence issued by the Minister, other than where a notice procedure has been complied with. Section 28 ensures, in contrast to existing systems under the National Monuments Acts, that even if the Minister does not assign special protection on receipt of such a notice, and it should be borne in mind that such protection would immediately impose a licensing requirement,...