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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: What about the question of this being the precursor of something stronger against the State of Israel and the possible influence that may come from the United State?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will issue a section 28 directive to local authorities to commence the review of their county development plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36281/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in the context of the reform of the private rental sector, he accepts that an unintended consequence of changes could be the departure of landlords who have four properties or fewer from the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36464/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in respect of those landlords with four properties or fewer, who had intended their properties to be part of a pension arrangement, said landlords are obliged to sell the properties within the tenant in situ scheme, he agrees that there is a risk of tenant n situ arrangements reducing market value of such property and-or...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 203. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address matters concerning the mysterious deaths of a large number of the farm animals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36593/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Chair. I will be brief. I welcome Mr. Keown and Mr. Smyth and thank them for their assistance. I welcome that the Government is adopting this twin-track approach of trying to influence matters at European level and enact what the public will see as Senator Frances Black's legislation, no matter what we produce at the end of the day. I cannot remember any occasion over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: So we are talking about €214,000 worth of goods. Are they made of up fruit, vegetables and other items? Do we know the nature of the goods?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Do we know the value of services that would be envisaged by this Bill, were they to be included? Reference was made to the opinion of the Attorney General. We have a very eminent Attorney General, and we have had many very eminent Attorneys General over the years. I am not looking in any particular direction. It is very frustrating, given the length of time this Bill has been in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: If the value was only €10, the symbolic value of the legislation is still absolutely enormous in terms of the leadership role it allows this country to take on this particular matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: How frequently are such infringement proceedings taken?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on his engagement with the Department of Finance on the tax treatment of Land Development Agency cost rental activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35636/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how he intends that the Land Development Agency will support local authorities, the Housing Activation Office and his Department in master planning and infrastructure provision in new towns and districts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35637/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the concerns raised in correspondence regarding mild general learning disability designation of schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35864/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Tánaiste will not be surprised that I rise to speak today to mention the illegal encampments on the Curragh Plains. In mentioning them, I immediately thank the Tánaiste and his official for the speed with which they moved in the earlier part of this year to deal with the several illegal encampments which were established. The Tánaiste's alacrity contrasts with the way in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (26 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 20. To ask the Minister for Health for a report on Sharing the Vision: A Mental Health Policy for Everyone' Implementation Plan 2025 - 2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34708/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 68. To ask the Minister for Health the capital investment being made in mental health for 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34707/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Projects (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 15. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 19 March 2025, he will set out the steps that have been taken to date to implement the Programme for Government to introduce a new management system for the Curragh Plains; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34604/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Projects (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, having regard to the expeditious manner in which he and his Department dispersed earlier encampments this year on the Curragh Plains, his Department will move with equal alacrity to seek the removal of the current very large illegal encampment now relocated to the Rathbride Road, including a number of vehicles, caravans, and campervans...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Projects (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 17. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total cost incurred by his Department from 2020 in clean-ups of the Curagh Plains following illegal encampments; any legal costs incurred; for an indication of the man hours required to deal with the situation on the part of employees of the Department of Defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34606/25]