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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Michael McGrath: A key objective of the government’s Housing for All plan is a pathway to increase housing supply, including a focus on providing an adequate supply of available serviced zoned land within required densities. In this regard, provision was made in the Finance Act 2021 for a new tax on land zoned for residential development, which also has the necessary services in place. The Residential...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stamp Duty (5 Mar 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that, in the normal course of events, stamp duty is chargeable on the purchase of agricultural land at the rate of 6%. Land valued at €150,000 would therefore be liable to stamp duty of €9,000. However, in the absence of any specific details of the purchase involved, including any other acquisitions of land, it isn’t possible to say whether any...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (11 May 2017)

Michael Noonan: I am advised by Revenue that information regarding purchases of land (non-residential / commercial property) is collected by Revenue through Stamp Duty returns that are filed via Revenue’s e-Stamping System. In relation to land the filer must indicate if the land falls within any of the following categories – - Site only - Agricultural land - Non-Agricultural land - New...

Written Answers — Land Prices: Land Prices (2 Mar 2005)

Mary Coughlan: Low levels of land mobility have been a long-term feature of Irish farming and the substantial increase in land prices in recent years and the relatively small acreage of land that is placed on the market annually have not helped the situation. Since 1997 agricultural land prices have more than doubled reflecting a combination of a shortage of land on the market and increasing levels of...

Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy: Motion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Government has laid out its stall and this will be to protect the big farmers over the small farmers, the farmers in the good land over the farmers in the bad land. The small farmers in the good land areas will be discriminated against in favour of the big farmers in the good land areas. The farmers on the good land will get more money than the farmers on the bad land, in other words, a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Seán Canney: Local authorities are preparing lands for the residential zoned land tax, RZLT. An issue that is coming up a fair bit right across all local authorities is that functional farmers who are drawing entitlements fear for their existence because they feel this tax will be imposed on them at a rate of 3% of the development value. There are other farmers whose land is zoned R2. This is also...

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

Michael Creed: For land, including commonage and upland areas, to be eligible for the various area-based schemes it must be “agricultural area” or “agricultural land”. This is clearly stated in the booklet “A Guide to Land Eligibility” which my Department issued to all farmers in 2015. The booklet describes the type of land that is agricultural area/land and the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 May 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of an 80% windfall tax on land rezoned from industrial to residential use; the estimated impact of such a tax on land value capture, land hoarding, land development and residential house prices; his further views on the best way to capture the increased land values from such rezoning from both land sales and from property...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Eligibility (4 Oct 2016)

Michael Noonan: I am advised by Revenue that land which is let can qualify for capital gains tax (CGT) retirement relief in certain circumstances where that land is disposed of on or after 1 January 2017. An individual aged 55 or over may qualify for relief in respect of land which has been let at any time in the period of 25 years prior to the disposal. In general, land which is let under conacre will...

Land Prices. (4 May 2005) See 4 other results from this debate

Mary Coughlan: Low levels of land mobility have been a long-term feature of Irish farming. The substantial increase in land prices in recent years and the relatively small acreage that is placed on the market annually demonstrate that this situation has not changed. Agricultural land prices have increased by almost 300% from €4,967 per hectare in 1993 to €14,379 per hectare in 2003, the latest figure...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Land Ownership (12 Nov 2019)

Charles Flanagan: The property rights of landowners are protected under the Constitution and these rights are further protected under tort law. The tort of trespass to land is committed where a person, without lawful reason or justification, intentionally or negligently enters onto, or remains on, land in the possession of another person. Moreover, a person who enters land with lawful permission may become a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Properties Data (26 Sep 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department does not collate or hold a full register of State owned land in County Meath. However, given the importance of ensuring that public land suitable for residential development is brought forward for the development of social and affordable housing, the residential lands in the ownership of the Housing Agency, local authorities and certain other public bodies, including lands in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Oct 2016)

Michael Noonan: ...of assets irrespective of whether or not there is a monetary gain accruing to the person making the disposal. In the case referred to by the Deputy, each brother is treated as disposing of his land to the other brother, the consideration being the land that is transferred to him by the other brother. Any gain arising to each brother on the transfer of the land is charged to CGT. ...

Courts Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2016)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 6:In page 8, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following:“Amendment of Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 20139. The Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2013 is amended by the insertion, after section 4, of the following:“Protection of tenants on repossessed land 4A.(1) Where a mortgagee goes into possession of land of a mortgagor, or appoints a...

Written Answers — Land Mobility: Land Mobility (8 Mar 2007)

Mary Coughlan: Low levels of land mobility can be an obstacle for those who wish to enter farming or expand the size of their holding. More recently, leasing has become an increasingly popular means of securing land as the volume of land sold on the open market declines and land prices rise. A number of schemes and reliefs have been introduced in recent years to bring about improvements in land mobility...

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (24 Feb 2009)

Brendan Smith: It is assumed that the Deputy is referring to unenclosed and unimproved land, normally referred to as unenclosed lands. This describes land that was never improved or enclosed by man-made boundaries for agricultural use other than extensive grazing. In the context of afforestation in Ireland, these lands tend, in general, to be the most unproductive being peat lands or lands located on the...

Written Answers — State Property: State Property (23 Jun 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a full report on the history and ownership of lands owned by IDA Ireland in Dublin 17; the lands which have been sold in recent years; the lands which remain in public ownership; the history of the lands occupied by a company (details supplied); if those lands triggered emergency legislation in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (20 Feb 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Land Development Agency (LDA) was established on 13 September 2018 by way of Establishment Order under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act 1971. On establishment, the LDA had access to an initial tranche of 8 publicly owned sites that have near term delivery potential for 3,000 new homes and an additional potential for 7,000 new homes. The LDA will also be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Mr. Noel Cahill: The first lesson is that affordability should be an explicit objective for a body such as the Land Development Agency. The international cases show that supply of housing is not in itself a reliable or sustainable means of making housing affordable. Like other countries, Ireland must engineer affordability into the supply of housing. It must be a stated objective for the...