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Neighbour Disputes (Vegetation) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will start where the Minister of State finished. This legislation was drafted in advance of the Mediation Act, but that is not to say that it should end because the Mediation Act has passed. There is a need for mediation and in fact the local authority in the city here often acts as a mediator where there is an antisocial tenant or a row between neighbours, especially in an estate that it...

Neighbour Disputes (Vegetation) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They grow. That is their purpose, and it is the same with hedges. Kids are the same. They are not as dainty either. Most people would cut their hedge back every year but will not touch trees. For trees, you have to be capable of going up a ladder and able to manage all the safety of cutting down a tree and so on. Sometimes it happens when a new estate is being built and because it looks...

Neighbour Disputes (Vegetation) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. Tá sé go maith go bhfuil an deis seo againn agus nach bhfuil an Rialtas ag cur ina choinne seo. Tá súil agam, amach anseo, go mbeidh muid in ann tacú leis le déanamh cinnte de gur reachtaíocht é. Is mian liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil le...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ba mhaith liom an spotsolas a dhíriú ar chathair agus contae na Gaillimhe inniu. Mar is eol don Taoiseach, is cathair álainn í. Go teoiriciúil, is cathair dhátheangach í agus geata chuig an Ghaeltacht is mó sa tír. Tá an t-ádh dearg orainn go bhfuil lánfhostaíocht sa chathair ach tá fadhbanna tromchúiseacha ó...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (14 May 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps being taken by him at a European Union ministers of foreign affairs level to get agreement to aid, support and facilitate war refugees from Israel's genocidal war on the Palestinian in the same way that Ukrainian war refugees were supported by countries in the EU, including Ireland, over the past two years. [21483/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 211. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an overview of her Department’s understanding of production activity in the film and audiovisual sector at present; the efforts, if any, she is undertaking to increase the volume of production activity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18682/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Culture Policy (18 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. The Ministers and others in the House will be aware that I had a legislation, An Bille um Cheathrú Chultúir 1916, 2021, that was passed here in the House on Second Stage in 2021 and has languished in the housing committee, which it probably should not have been sent to. It should have been sent, as originally intended, to the arts committee...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: How widespread does the Minister of State think this type of phasing will be, based on applications in the system at the moment? Will it be widespread?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They are all flawed because this is a positive proposal. The idea that it is ten housing units seems a low bar. Any apartment complex in Dublin that will have ten units will not require phasing. There is a schedule of works but there is no phase. Can there be a single phase in a development? That would be the logical thing in smaller developments. Often there is a phase at the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I concur with the other Deputies in this regard. As for commencements, what is the precise definition of "commencements"? Hoarding just goes up and a hole is dug in the ground. That is one of the problems we see, where buildings are pulled down and demolished in preparation for that commencement. That needs to be the case. Also, there needs to be a conclusion in order that if planning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will very briefly follow on. If a developer has got an extension and, at the end of ten years, has not completed the development, it is an unauthorised development, as the Minister stated. Does that developer have to go back to full planning permission, even though the development is near completion? The reason I ask is that a number of such developments in the area where I live were not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The intention was to ensure notification was as quick as possible. It is not at odds with what the Minister presented in the list of who should be notified beyond the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority, MARA. I am not sure why amendment No. 4 to the Minister's amendment would be ruled out. It is logical that those who make submissions would be informed and notified as quickly as possible,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is an interesting concept and I agree with Deputy O'Callaghan I have not seen any delivery, in an accelerated sense, in my constituency. The exact opposite seems to be happening. Looking at the Dolphin House regeneration programme, people are being told it will be 2035 or 2036 before the project will be delivered. St. Michael's Estate has gone on for however many years. I could list...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If it is an anomaly, it can be corrected at a later stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I concur with what Deputy O'Callaghan has outlined. We know from our this city and elsewhere the history of protected structures. In some cases, the State has intervened and addressed protected structures that were demolished and had to be rebuilt. Archer's Garage, which is close to Leinster House, is a classic example. While it was rebuilt, it is not the original structure. There are...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is cúis náire dúinn é mar náisiún go bhfuil daoine ar shráideanna na príomhchathrach ina gcónaí i bpubaill, idir iad siúd atá gan dídean agus iad siúd atá i gcóras na dteifeach. Le blianta roimhe seo, bhímid ar fad ag féachaint thar lear agus ag tarraingt airde ar na cathracha de phubaill a bhí sna...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know where to start on this. I have been raising this issue for a long time in this Chamber. There is no ethical component to the purchasing of weapons from Israel or any other country that is at war. Given the slaughter that is happening in Gaza and the history of Israeli actions in respect of Palestine, there should never have been any purchasing of any equipment for the Defence...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (21 Mar 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will fund and encourage the Road Safety Authority roll-out a campaign on social media in particular aimed at tackling the dangers of users of escooters, motorised bicycles and bicycles (details supplied). [13272/24]