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Business Support Package: Statements (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...living costs and on the back of successive increases in the national minimum wage and higher PRSI. For example, the minimum wage was increased to €12.70 in January but employers argue they were landed with higher costs because the PRSI threshold for the higher rate remained the same. On top of this, local businesses in my constituency of Louth and east Meath have highlighted their...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Verona Murphy: ...resources is due in June, which I welcome. However, it is time for a response from the Government on rural policing. The coastal watch programme, launched by An Garda Síochána to curb the threat of drugs being landed along the coastline, is welcome, but I have just come from a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts at which the Department of Defence appeared. We have six...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (23 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

David Stanton: ...that up at the interdepartmental working group the next time it meets. Otherwise, all of the other work to which he referred cannot happen. Would the Minister of State be supportive of IDA Ireland-owned land being made available to the Port of Cork to enable it to expand? There is a parcel of such land adjacent to the port that is not being used, as far as I understand, and that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Victor Boyhan: ...challenges around the nitrates directive; environmental fairness and, more important, our environmental-ambition planning, particularly regarding the local government elections; residentially zoned lands, particularly regarding the local elections; the challenges around ash dieback, both urban and rural, and what these mean for local authorities; connectivity in every sense of the word;...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Policy (22 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...that were due to be completed in quarter 4 of 2023. The report is framed around the six high-impact sectors for climate action, comprising agriculture, transport, electricity, buildings, land use and industry. The report also provides updates on established performance indicators, sectoral emissions trends and high-impact actions. In total, 161 new actions were scheduled to be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Maurice Quinlivan: The Housing Commission report, which is devastating for the Government, called for a radical strategic reset of housing policy. In Limerick, a significant amount of land is in the control of the Land Development Agency. These are lands that could and should be used for the development of social and truly affordable housing that working families can access. In 2022 and 2023, the Land...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Policies (22 May 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: ...such as community safety and policing, early intervention and programmes for young people, education, training and employment opportunities for young people, improving the physical environments and the landscapes of these communities, housing, tackling the impact of drugs on community development and in terms of structures to ensure co-ordination between agencies and Departments. Finally,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cycling Facilities (22 May 2024)

Aisling Dolan: ...benefits and boost to local towns. I acknowledge the support of landowners who look at this in terms of the benefits to their communities. A lot of the focus is on maximising the use of State lands such as the Royal Canal towpath. Coming into Ballinasloe, it is the Grand Canal towpath. It is about using State lands and maximising that use as much as possible. The cycleway office for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Postal Services (22 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael McDowell: ...bodies are required to seek the approval of the relevant Minister and the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in advance of any material acquisition or disposal of lands, buildings or other material assets. The public affairs manager of An Post had replied to residents’ queries on April 18 stating, “as soon as the new Postmaster...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 May 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...recommendations. It refers to the interventions of the Government in the housing sector and to fundamentally systemic failures in the delivery of housing. It goes on to refer to advocating for a land price register to increase transparency, encouraging public participation and planning processes and delivering enabling infrastructure in housing construction.It also talks about greater...

Seanad: Waste Management: Statements (22 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...can burn it all and turn it into electricity and hot water to heat homes in the area. At the moment, we have approximately 41% of our municipal waste being incinerated, approximately 16% being landfilled, approximately 26% being recycled and 15% being composted or anaerobically digested There is a mix of things there. Generally, there are EU targets on recycling. It is considered to be...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)

Dara Calleary: It is not where I want it to be, by any means. We tend to land Microfinance Ireland into emergency situations and people have not heard about it. This year, we will introduce the enterprise hub, that is, the one-stop shop where people will be able to go to get all the supports, and bringing it into the Department will allow us to do that. Second, in respect of the increase in its ability...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (22 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...commits to delivering 18,000 Cost Rental homes over the period to 2030, and significant funding is being made available to support provision by Approved Housing Bodies, Local Authorities, the Land Development Agency, and now also private providers under the new Secure Tenancy Affordable Rental (STAR) investment scheme. Last year the Government approved significant changes to Cost...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks (22 May 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...importance, and the Páirc brings them together for the first time to be protected and celebrated collectively as a recognised National Park. The location referred to is on the northern boundary of lands recently acquired at Inch. The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of my Department will assess all infrastructure currently in place across the different acquired...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Border Management Unit (BMU) of my Department has responsibility for front-line immigration duties at Dublin Airport only. Other airports and other ports of entry, including the land border with Northern Ireland, are the responsibility of the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB). Ireland and the United Kingdom share a long history and common interest in the effective operation of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (22 May 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 136. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if she has engaged with Coillte on the issue of gravel cycling events on their lands; the reason Coillte is not allowing gravel cycling events take place on their lands; if she is aware that this decision is affecting ten events across Ireland and approximately 10,000 cyclists who cannot take part in the sport because of it; if she...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (21 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Joe McHugh: ...want to get across to officials and Ministers tonight in the Departments of housing, the Taoiseach and public expenditure is this. This is a multifaceted problem and a complex issue. It is not correct to just land everything on the doorstep of the Department of housing. This is a chain of command issue. I ask the people who happen to be listening tonight or may be interested in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wind Energy Guidelines (21 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Minister of State for that and for the effort that has been put into giving a meaningful answer. I think he would agree it would a reasonable supposition that whatever guidelines are brought in on land in terms of height versus setback would apply on near inshore and offshore turbines. I will table a Topical Issue matter - I might get lucky again in the Topical Issue lottery - to the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 May 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a fair price. If somebody is sitting on it for speculative reasons, we should tax them to the hilt and take it off them for speculating on property. The same should be done with residential zoned land, planning permissions or any of these things where speculative profiteering is taking place on the back of vacant and derelict property. I say to the Minister that we must have a can-do...

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Michael Healy-Rae: .... What is one of the biggest reasons for objections to planning permissions in rural areas? It is Green Party policies, which are ably supported by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. The Green Party has to be called out on that. We have instances in rural Ireland where we have serial objectors. It is bad enough to be a person objecting to one house. I am not criticising genuine...