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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (21 Nov 2013)

Simon Coveney: Following changes to the EU Regulations land which was afforested since 2009 and land which will be afforested in 2013 will be eligible to draw down an SPS payment in 2013 provided that the afforested land meets the following requirements: - The land to be afforested was declared on a 2008 SPS application form. - The applicant who declared that land on a 2008 SPS application form was paid...

Written Answers — Local Authority Lands: Local Authority Lands (25 Nov 2010) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Finneran: Following the transfer of land to Housing and Sustainable Communities (HSC) Ltd. under the land aggregation scheme, HSC Ltd. will be required to prepare a report, in consultation with relevant bodies, including my Department and the local authority concerned, to ensure the best use of the land from planning and value for money perspectives. A strategy for the management, utilisation,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (25 Feb 2014)

Simon Coveney: The Terms & Conditions of the Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme require that land declared by all applicants must be farmed and managed by the applicants. Where the applicant is not the owner of the land, the applicant must have the permission of the owner of the land to farm and manage the land. The land must be suitable for and compatible with the applicant’s...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: We reached out at the time to every entity that owns public land in Ireland, including all the local authorities. We used some of our own land, we used land from the Land Development Agency, LDA, and we got some local authority land. The number of completions are as follows: 64 units in Mahon in Cork, completed on 16 June 2023; 28 units in Cavan, on an OPW site, completed on 29 August; an...

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am responding to the debate. I pushed for this urgency of reflection because although we will be using State land, once the land enters the LDA's stock it will no longer be State land. Section 59 states that it will no longer be State land but land owned by the LDA, a commercial entity in which two Ministers are shareholders and they may dispose of those shares. That is the concern. By...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (10 May 2023)

...: I will comment on two aspects. The Deputy mentioned the example of a site on the side of a mountain that is not worth very much. In this regard, it is important to say that the value of such land will likely be very low. Even thinking about a site value tax that does not make any distinction between agriculture and non-agricultural land, by virtue, as the Deputy said, of there being...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 Nov 2013)

Jan O'Sullivan: ..., fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, the breeding and keeping of livestock (including any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skins or fur, or for the purpose of its use in the farming of land), the training of horses and the rearing of bloodstock, the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Michael McGrath: The Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) is a new tax introduced in Finance Act 2021 which seeks to increase housing supply by encouraging the activation of development on lands which are suitably zoned and appropriately serviced. It aims to bring those lands which have benefitted from investment in services and are capable of being developed forward for housing. The tax is an action contained...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Properties (25 Sep 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 116. To ask the Taoiseach the land his Department or agencies under its remit own in County Meath; the location of same; the use to which the land is put; the location of the land that is vacant, not in use or being used for agricultural purposes; the land his Department has made available to Meath County Council or other housing agencies for the purpose of house building; and the amount of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (5 Apr 2022)

Peter Burke: Action 15.2 of Housing for All requires the introduction of a new tax to activate vacant land for residential purposes (to replace the current Vacant Site Levy) by Q4 2021. The Residential Zoned Land Tax was introduced by the Minister for Finance in the Finance Act 2021. The purpose of the proposed measure is to incentivise the activation of land which is zoned and serviced for residential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. Eddie Taaffe: We have been involved in this and I will differentiate between two types of land. There is land that local authorities own and which is in the pipeline for construction, so there might be planning permission on it but there has not been construction yet. It is in a pipeline and it is scheduled to deliver housing, for example, in 2023 or 2024. We estimate that throughout...

Land Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jul 2005) See 3 other results from this debate

Fergus O'Dowd: I have downloaded many speeches on this issue and the Minister of State will be pleased to note that I read them all fully. Coming from the east coast, we do not have a particular knowledge of the Land Commission. Much of its work was historical and was well done. In its day it was an important agent for social change and it met the needs of a land-hungry community. It met the needs of a poor...

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (25 Apr 2006) See 2 other results from this answer

Willie Penrose: Question 711: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the ownership of land certificates in the ordinary way and according to constitutional rights is vested as registered owner or the person entitled to be registered owner; if in this context; the jurisdiction the Land Registry Office has in conjunction and in consultation with the Law Society and representative of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Framework Plans (20 Jun 2017)

Michael Creed: ...the European Court of Auditors.  These audits can involve a review of the implementation by my Department of the various EU regulations that relate to both the management and eligibility of land for payment, including commonages.  The primary articles that cover land eligibility are detailed in EU Regulation 1307/2013 and the delegated EU Regulation 639/2014.  The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Seán Canney: I raise the issue of the residential zoned land tax and its implications for family farms around the country. Farmers are private landowners. They are not builders. They own the land to farm it and try to make a living from it. They do not hoard it as an investment. The fact that farmers are completely unaware that some of their land is being zoned for residential purposes leaves them in...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (3 Sep 2015)

Michael McGrath: Okay. If you look at page 129, for example, where it looks at Galway client analysis, so these are loans, presumably, extended in that area. It goes through unzoned land, €84 million; zoned land, €392 million, without planning; zoned land, with planning, €236 million - that's the whole land area - development with no pre-sales, €342 million; development with...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Dec 2021)

Paschal Donohoe: The Finance Bill introduces Part 22A into the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, which gives effect to the measure I announced on Budget day regarding the Residential Zoned Land Tax. This measure is a part of the ‘Housing for All’ Strategy published by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in September 2021. The Residential Zoned Land Tax is designed to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (7 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: The Property Registration Authority records the names and addresses of every registered land owner and details in respect of each county can be accessed atwww.landdirect.ie. My Department does not collate or hold specific data regarding profiles on the concentration of ownership of residential, commercial or other categories of land...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 May 2004)

Joe Walsh: The requirement under the new single payment scheme that individual farmers need to have 100% of the average land area that they had during the reference period would have resulted in serious problems for those Irish farmers who, for specific reasons, declare less lands in 2005 or subsequent years, than the average area of land that they farmed during the reference period. Ireland secured a...