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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (25 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: While Local authorities are empowered under a number of statutes to acquire land, by agreement or compulsorily, for the purposes of performing any of its functions, the number of derelict sites acquired within their functional area under the provisions of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 (the Act) are submitted to my Department as part of the annual return on the operation of the Act. The number...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (25 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the NPWS branch of his Department applies for and receives any annual grants or Common Agricultural Payments on State owned land from the Department of Agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18636/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...plays its role in meeting the national climate targets by 2030 and 2050, while continuing to sustainably produce food and feed. Indeed, the Food Vision 2030 Strategy sets out a pathway for Ireland to become a world leader in Sustainable Food Systems over the next decade. While the emissions targets for agriculture are particularly challenging, the Climate Action Plan includes a range...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2024)

...: I thank the Cathaoirleach and members. It is my honour and privilege to represent Firhouse-Bohernabreena in South County Dublin, where I was co-opted in 2022. I have served as chair of the land use planning and transportation strategic policy committee, on the corporate policy group, as local area chair, and as a member of the east midlands regional assembly. On my first day in...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024) See 14 other results from this debate

Charlie McConalogue: ...also want to make sure that our tillage sector will grow into the future. We want the sector to reach 400,000 ha by the end of this decade. There was some slippage, both last year and into this year, in terms of the amount of land under tillage. After having made progress through the tillage incentive scheme that we ran for two years, the different things that hare happening are putting...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (24 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...This has had a knock-on effect on feed costs. Milk yields and solids are back, affecting cashflow on some dairy farms. Wet soil conditions have also made it very difficult for machinery to travel on land which has delayed slurry and chemical fertiliser applications. On tillage farms the weather has had a significant impact on spring planting and on the management of winter crops....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Frank Feighan: ...address the fodder crisis which has put farmers under pressure. We need to do more. We need to come up with a voucher scheme because farmers, certainly those in the north west who are on marginal land, are really feeling the pain and we need to assist them as quickly as possible.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Apr 2024)

Victor Boyhan: .... It will be a guide and great help to the Leader and other candidates. I take this opportunity to wish the Leader and Deputy Leader well in the European elections. This is the bible for rural Ireland and what farmers and rural communities are looking for. It addresses: CAP; overregulation; the issue and challenges around the simplification of agricultural policy; the nitrates...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Emer Currie: ...of these platforms and the detrimental effect they are having, even when we consider their benefits. I spoke to teachers this week in primary schools about the repercussions they are dealing with. This lands on their desk when kids are bullied outside of school on smartphones, but also by kids in other schools with smartphones. That is the extent to which teachers are having to deal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Paul Daly: ...as we are on the one page this evening. Usually I come out combative. I accept the Department's report and I welcome the fact that it highlights and sees the issues that could pertain to Ireland as an island nation. Maintaining our access to the Common Market and being on a level playing field is important. I have a couple of questions. I will not backtrack on what I said about us...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (24 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...GAP) for the Protection of Waters Regulations, as amended, sets limits regarding the application of certain nutrients, including Phosphorus to agricultural soils. Since January 2023, all arable land and holdings with a grassland stocking rate greater than 130 kg Nitrogen per hectare in the previous year must be subject to soil analysis, including an assessment of the soil's Phosphorous...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...new statement of strategy for the Department will be published in the coming months. Despite a backdrop of weakening growth and rising international economic uncertainty in recent months, including the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, Ireland's domestic economy continues to perform strongly. This is evident in the number of people at work, namely, a new record level of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...that subject to a spot audit, give or take, they are doing the job right, and that wee do not go to this mega precision. I get cases that are quite bizarre. Let us take a small farmer on ten acres or 10 ha of poor land. We know what he has from the Department of agriculture, it is awfully easy to figure out. In some of the means-testing, say, for a carer's allowance at €900 per...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...determinations. I am surprised at the apparent belief on the part of some members of this committee that we have extraordinary powers as trade union representatives. We are limited by the law of the land, by what the law allows us to do, and by contract. There is this notion that we have sat back. We have not done that. Cases are ongoing. We do not comment on individual cases. ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Kieran O'Donnell: ...give a commitment on this issue. I very much take on board what the Deputies have done to date. I see it as a partnership model. The Attorney General's office is the highest legal office in the land, the advice is being worked on and I will be meeting him very shortly.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...scheme. Work on stage 2 with some environmental services, including bats and birds, got under way this winter. Discussions will involve operators of critical infrastructure and landowners whose lands will be needed as part of the scheme. The OPW and Cork County Council have also advanced their consideration of the best route for consent. The decision is due shortly. There are two...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...with Grattan Road and Fr. Griffin would be provided protection by the construction of a quay wall along the Claddagh Basin and Nimmo's Pier. Flood defences along the property line of localised land and road-rising at Salthill will manage wave over-topping risk. There are potentially a number of intersecting projects at varying stages from concept to completion, including the Salthill...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to move into construction. The State should ramp up apprenticeships and, unlike in previous construction booms or upswings, we should send the message that if people go into construction, they will not be landed on the dole at the next collapse because it has all been left up to the private market, but that there will instead be sustainable, secure and decent employment that the State...