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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Jul 2010)

Brendan Smith: The availability of land for the Single Farm Payment and other schemes are clearly set out in the Terms and Conditions governing the 2010 Single Payment Scheme which advise applicants as follows, insofar as land declared under the 2010 Scheme is concerned: 'You are legally required to declare ALL the land that will form part of your holding on 31 May 2010, excluding any land that you have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Insurance Schemes: Discussion (27 Nov 2014)

Dr. Ronan Lyons: The major dysfunction in the land market has less to do with land banking and more to do with NAMA. NAMA sells land to the highest bidder, regardless of whether the bidder is going to build any properties on it. Thereby, once they have sold that at €2 million per acre in this area, that becomes the benchmark price. Anyone willing to build on it is prepared to pay...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There are various commitments in the programme for Government on land use. For example, there is a commitment to the effect that: Within 24 months, we will evaluate the potential for contributions towards our climate ambition from land-use improvements and set in train the development of a land-use plan, based on its findings. There is also a commitment to: A national land use review,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (18 Oct 2018)

Michael Creed: .... The Act also gives powers to issue replanting orders, where it is found that tree felling has taken place without a valid licence. Replanting orders can be issued without having to take the land owner to court (as for the Forestry Act, 1946). Failure to replant under a replanting order can be followed-up with court proceedings, if necessary. In the case referenced, following an...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (2 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The windfall tax rate of 80%, which was introduced under the National Asset Management Agency Act, applies to the portion of any profit or gain made on the disposal of land which is attributable to a rezoning, where both the rezoning and the disposal of land giving rise to the windfall occur after 30 October 2009. A rezoning for windfall tax purposes is defined as a change from a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (4 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: The Land Aggregation Scheme was introduced in 2010 as part of revised arrangements for the funding of land for social housing purposes. The primary purpose of the Scheme was to assist in the unwinding of loans taken out by housing authorities to purchase land for the social and affordable housing investment programme. Applications to the value of some €164 million in loans have been...

Public Accounts Committee: Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (23 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My constituency colleague mentioned Leopardstown and there is quite a bit of land around there. The organisation sold a portion of this to the Department of Education last year. Is the remaining land still on the vacant site register for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council? Has the organisation been in discussion with the Land Development Agency either about that land or other Horse...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. Michael O'Flynn: Never implemented, that's ... that's what I should have said. But, Deputy, to ... to answer your question, I'm not speaking for land speculation. Land speculation ... or spiralling land prices is bad for people in my business. It's ... we are people who build houses. We have built hundreds - 400 to 500 houses a year on the peak - we've been building houses since...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Protection Areas Designation: Irish Farmers with Designated Land (21 Jul 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. Michael Cronin: Irish Farmers with Designated Lands, IFDL, is a group representing landowners in regions designated for the protection of the hen harrier. This designation was given by the Government under Directive 2009/147/EC, or the EU birds directive, which provides for a comprehensive scheme of protection for all wild birds naturally occurring in the European Union. The total land...

Social and Affordable Housing (27 May 2010)

Michael Finneran: In April 2010, my Department advised housing authorities of revised arrangements for the funding of land used for social housing and sought information from them on local authority residential land holdings for the purpose of ensuring the optimal use of the lands in question. Where loans are due to mature before the end of 2010 and where it is considered that the land involved is unlikely to...

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (19 Oct 2011)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of lands known as the Ashcastle site on the border between Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and Dublin City Council, which lands are bordered by the Booterstown Marsh and Nature Reserve, the Rock Road and the DART line and are in the ownership of the National Asset Management Agency; if said lands are for sale; if said lands have...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (21 May 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Land Development Agency (LDA) is focused on managing State-owned land to develop new homes, and regenerate under-utilised sites. In the longer-term the LDA will assemble strategic land banks from a mix of public and private lands, making these available for housing in a controlled manner, bringing essential long-term stability to the Irish housing market with the objective of facilitating...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Shane Cassells: I know Deputy Connolly wants to get in. Mr. McCarthy mentioned that in 2017 the Department hopes to progress land acquisition and land banks for councils. What are the criteria of suitability? I refer again to the 28 acres that Meath County Council owns, which is land locked. The council bought 28 acres for €22 million and it is landlocked. In terms of accessing that land, a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (10 Nov 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: In support of the Zoned Land Tax and other measures included in "Housing for All - A New Housing Plan for Ireland", a register of lands zoned for housing development will be created in conjunction with the local authorities, based on the city and county development plan system. This will be compiled on a national basis to provide an accurate and current picture of the stock of zoned housing...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2008)

Mary Coughlan: ...reply to Parliamentary Question No. 316 from the Deputy on 13 November 2007 the person named applied under Category A of the 2006 National Reserve. This Category catered for farmers who inherited land or received land free of charge or for a nominal sum from a farmer who had retired or died by 16 May 2005 and where the land was leased out by the original owner to a third party during the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 98: In page 41, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “Guidelines for Affected Owners of Land and Property 19.The Minister shall publish guidelines for owners of land and property where their land or property encompasses a prescribed or registered monument, or any part of a prescribed or registered monument, outlining their duties and obligations to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (19 Nov 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: In relation to the Basic Payment Scheme, my Department pays out some €1.2bn annually to farmers based on the entitlements that they hold in respect of eligible land they declare in their scheme applications.  In general, there are two key principles in relation to the eligibility of land.  Firstly, the land in question must be available to the applicant for a period...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú: No. I am confident that we are advancing on the land associated with it. We have not seen in our engagement with the orders on these issues that they are unwilling to transfer the land. However, I stress that the figure will depend on the land value when the land is transferred, not necessarily on the land valuations included in the 2009 offer. The land may be worth...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turbary Rights (5 Feb 2013)

Simon Coveney: When a person purchased land from the former Land Commission under the Land Purchase Acts, it may be sold subject inter alia to turbary rights. These rights may appear as a burden on the folio for the lands sold. The interests of the various parties in on or over the land are protected by both statute and common law. Disputes arising between the various interest holders are matters for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Eligibility (24 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: As previously advised under Parliamentary Question No. 270 of 10 March, 2015, those Hen Harrier lands which attract a €370 per hectare payment under GLAS are lands notified to my Department by the National Parks & Wildlife Service. These lands include areas formally designated by NPWS, or otherwise identified by them as important for the preservation of the hen harrier....