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Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...previous Minister, would like us to live in a planning ivory tower where everything is perfect and laid out wonderfully and we all live close to where we are supposed to live. However, this is Ireland, which is a rurally-based country with a settlement pattern dating back hundreds of years which does not lend itself to ivory tower-style planning policies. We must be realistic about this...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (12 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 432: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the progress being made to issue new guidelines to assist in allowing landowners with land along national secondary routes to obtain access for planning purposes on such roads. [28005/12]

Written Answers — Direct Payment Scheme: Direct Payment Scheme (12 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 532: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider ensuring that all sheep inspections, particularly for hill land sheep farmers, will not be carried out during the lambing season due to the distress being caused to pregnant ewes. [28008/12]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (2 May 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason 20 hectares of land have been omitted from a single farm payment and agri-environment option scheme application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22234/12]

Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (26 Apr 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if REP scheme is being claimed for lands (details supplied) in County Donegal. [21009/12]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2012)

Dara Calleary: ..., taking the supports away and implementing legislation she herself disagrees with. That is why it is so wrong. The Minister is not convinced about her own policy. She comes to the House and lands her colleagues, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, and the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Fitzgerald, in it in order to get something out of them....

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (18 Apr 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 933: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the person who owns land in a bog (details supplied) in County Mayo. [18176/12]

Written Answers — Property Ownership: Property Ownership (21 Mar 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 412: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he can confirm if lands (details supplied) in County Donegal are still under the ownership of the Land Commission and if not, who is the registered owner. [15728/12]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (6 Mar 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 593: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if lands that were subject to a compulsory purchase order on a road scheme (details supplied) in County Mayo will be made available again to the landowners, as a result of the fact that the original proposed route of the scheme has been turned down by An Bord Pleanála; if these landowners will be notified of changes to the...

Farm Inspections (9 Feb 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine if he will outline in tabular form providing county breakdown of all the cross compliance and GAEC penalties, as well as the land eligibility penalties applied on farmers for 2009, 2010 and 2011, with a detailed breakdown between each of the different cross compliance Statutory Management Requirements and each of the GAEC...

Written Answers — Special Areas of Conservation: Special Areas of Conservation (2 Feb 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of the objections made by landowners to the proposed inclusion of land in the special protection areas in County Donegal that were accepted, excluding the proposed land from an SPA area; and the number of individual one-to-one consultations or meetings with landowners that were held before these decisions were...

Written Answers — Special Areas of Conservation: Special Areas of Conservation (2 Feb 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of the objections made by landowners to the proposed inclusion of land in special protection areas in County Mayo were that accepted, excluding the proposed land from an SPA area; and the number of individual one-to-one consultations or meetings with landowners that were held before these decisions were made....

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Dara Calleary: ...with septic tanks installed 30 or 40 years ago to upgrade them. We all know there are bodies outside this House who take a very different view of rural life from those of us who live in rural Ireland. They have a zealous attitude to rural life and they will challenge that legislation and that interpretation and they will go to every court in this land and on the continent to try to...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (29 Nov 2011)

Dara Calleary: Question 466: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that all farmers with commonage lands who are leaving the REP scheme programme will be eligible for continued full payments under the single farm payment scheme for their commonage lands. [37437/11]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (22 Nov 2011)

Dara Calleary: ...and Local Government if, in view of the decision to suspend many capital expenditure projects, he has any plans to review the policies that prohibit persons from building family homes on family land that has been provisionally earmarked for road or other capital projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35581/11]

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (26 Oct 2011)

Dara Calleary: ...special protection areas; and if consideration will be given to reducing the number of conditions attached to SPAs, particularly for farmers and for those wishing to build a one off house on their lands. [31626/11]

Written Answers — Special Areas of Conservation: Special Areas of Conservation (26 Oct 2011)

Dara Calleary: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of objections which have been received by him from land owners in the six recently designated special protection areas in County Donegal. [31627/11]

Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy: Motion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2011)

Dara Calleary: ...cause for concern. Everybody supports the sustainability of the industry but no sector has done more for greening or the environment than the Irish farming sector. We can consider the amount of land gone into special areas of conservation and specific designation for various animals. There have been costs and sacrifices made by farmers to this end. The proposals and potential red tape...

Criminal Justice Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2011)

Dara Calleary: ...and intentions of the Bill. Is there a provision to afford protection in order that a smart lawyer will not use an exclusion from the interpretation of the legislation to get a client off or to land a client in trouble?

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (12 Jul 2011)

Dara Calleary: ...it is fit for purpose in the 21st century. In that context, the provisions in the Bill are welcome. The Minister will know from his professional and political experience that any changes to land law do not always work out as one hopes they will. Nevertheless, I welcome the thrust of the proposals in this area. On the issue of the serving of notice, the Minister referred to "relevant...