Results 1-13 of 13 for destroyed speaker:Malcolm Noonan

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...these reasons, I ask the Deputies to withdraw this amendment. On amendment No. 229, although it may appear peculiar at first, there is no doubt that the option to dispose of an archaeological object by destroying it is required. Situations could arise where an archaeological object, perhaps only recently discovered, is adjudged to be a danger to the health and safety of members of the...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...Nolan raised the issue of food security. All we need to do is look at Emilia-Romagna under water this week. The richest food-growing region in northern Italy has been completely devastated and destroyed because of climate change. We need to be responsible about this. There is a change coming; the nature restoration regulation is happening. The MEPs who voted against it will be on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (10 Nov 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: ...be of the opinion that the monument in question is a national monument within the meaning of the National Monuments Acts, but also that it must appear to me that the monument is in danger of being or is actually being destroyed, injured or removed, or is falling into decay through neglect. In the circumstances as known to me, which includes the understanding that the in-situ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (26 May 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: ...respectively.  Rule 117 of the Second Schedule of the European Parliament Elections Act 1997 and Article 107 of the Local Elections Regulations 1995 provide that it is an offence to interfere with or destroy postal ballot papers.  Rule 147 of the Second Schedule of the European Parliament Elections Act 1997 and Article 121 of the Local Elections Regulations 1995...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (3 Mar 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: ...under permission or licence granted by me under the Act) - Injure a protected wild animal (unless done while hunting in accordance with a licence or exemption cited above), or - Willfully interfere with or destroy the breeding or resting places of a protected wild animal. I hope to be in a position to progress this matter further very soon.

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: ...global security, that is, climate change and biodiversity loss. In April of last year, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and I travelled to Killarney National Park following a devastating fire that destroyed species rich habitat, contaminated the water, destabilised carbon rich soils and released CO2into the atmosphere. We were grateful to the Irish Air Corps for its support in...

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: ...archives are critical records, they cannot provide answers to all the questions posed by the families of those in residential care. I have been told, sadly, that many records were lost or destroyed over the years and there were uneven patterns of record-keeping and sometimes none at all. Despite these drawbacks, local authorities should fulfil their statutory obligations under the Local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (2 Nov 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: ...Long-Eared Bats, and that works were undertaken by the OPW at that House in recent years. No authorisation was sought or given for the destruction of the bat roost, and the bat roost has not been destroyed.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (22 Sep 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: .... Similarly, if the land was designated as a Natural Heritage Areas (NHA), prior consent may be required under Section 19 of the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000 if the mulching was liable to destroy or to significantly alter, damage or interfere with the features for which the NHA was designated. Finally, birds are protected during their nesting season whether the land is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (27 Jul 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: ..., except in accordance with a licence issued by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, to hunt a protected wild bird, to injure a protected wild bird, to wilfully take, remove, destroy, injure or mutilate the eggs or nest, or to wilfully disturb a protected wild bird on or near a nest containing eggs or unflown young. Section 9, as amended by the European...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Welfare (13 May 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: Nesting birds are already protected under the Wildlife Act 1976, as amended. It is an offence to wilfully destroy, injure or mutilate the nest of a protected wild bird, or to wilfully disturb a protected wild bird on or near a nest containing eggs or unflown young. It is also an offence to wilfully take or remove the nest of a protected wild bird, unless in accordance with a licence issued...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Gorse Burning (11 Mar 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: ...is thought to be the deliberate starting of fires without concern for the emergency services, the wildlife habitat, communities or even private property close by. Important upland habitats are destroyed with local wildlife potentially killed or displaced at a critical time of year for many species. These sites are special areas of conservation and among the most precious places in...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (22 Jul 2020)

Malcolm Noonan: ...Wildlife crime takes many forms and includes persecution of badgers, illegal hunting of deer species, illegal hunting of hares, trapping of wild birds for illegal trade, wilfully disturbing or destroying the eggs or nests of wild birds and poisoning of raptor species. Within my Department, the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has responsibility for the protection and...