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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: The statement refers to modern methods of construction in the context of major funding to relieve local authorities with indebted lands. I presume that touches on the historic land aggregation sites. Will the witnesses touch on what is in mind when talking about modern methods of construction? We have an historic land aggregation scheme. The local authorities offered some lands back, some...

Written Answers — Farm Structures: Farm Structures (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Coughlan: A number of schemes and reliefs have been introduced in recent years to bring about improvements in farm structures. Low levels of land mobility remain an obstacle for those who wish to enter farming or expand the size of their holding. However, 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. At...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (27 May 2020)

Michael Creed: EU Regulations governing the Basic Payment Scheme require that for agricultural land to be deemed eligible for payment, it must be subject to an agricultural activity. Ineligible features, e.g. scrub, rock, etc., are not eligible and must be deducted from the area being declared for payment. Furthermore, land that is abandoned, i.e. no agriculture activity taking place, is not considered as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Mr. John O'Connor: Deputy Ó Broin's first question was on role of the Land Development Agency and whether it should be involved in active lands management or carrying out developments. Yes, there is an absolute need for active land management. I think it is important to have the Land Development Agency actually involved in development because many of the sites are very large, so one...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (16 Oct 2013)

Simon Coveney: Since 1923, the purchase prices of lands taken over by the former Irish Land Commission (ILC) were payable in State-guaranteed Land Bonds. Most of the owners whose land was acquired were compensated in these Land Bonds yielding a fixed rate of return. They were redeemable at their nominal or original value, either by periodic random selection from what was known as the Land Bond Fund, or...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (10 Feb 2009)

John Gormley: The National Economic and Social Council Report Housing in Ireland: Performance and Policy, published in late 2004, highlighted the importance of active land management as one of the key elements of the policy framework required to respond to the challenges arising in the housing area, while indicating that a significant element of active land management already existed in practice. Active...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister for his response. One of the differences between New Zealand agriculture and ours is that their land prices are much lower and output is much higher. Do we need, in general, to disincentivise land purchasing by people who do not use it for any purpose? Why does land cost so much in this country? Is there a fiscal privilege bound up in it? Was the Irish land and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (8 Sep 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: Given the diversity of state bodies and agencies and multiplicity of landholdings for a range of different purposes, there isn’t currently one central comprehensive database of all lands in state ownership. It is not, therefore, possible to conclusively identify all such lands that may be zoned for residential development or to estimate the total number of houses that could be built...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Land Availability (5 Oct 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Residential Land Availability Study undertaken in 2014 determined the location and quantity of lands that may be regarded as being undeveloped and available for residential development purposes at 31st March 2014. The results of the survey indicated that there were 17,434 hectares of residential zoned lands nationally which is sufficient to support the construction of over 414,000...

Written Answers — Local Authority Loans: Local Authority Loans (25 May 2010)

Michael Finneran: My Department issued a circular to housing authorities in early April 2010 setting out revised arrangements for the funding of land used for social housing and seeking information on local authority residential land holdings for the purpose of land-use strategy planning. This circular invites authorities to apply to my Department to recoup the cost of outstanding loans on the land where...

Written Answers — State Property: State Property (14 Nov 2006)

Billy Timmins: Question 520: To ask the Minister for Defence the precise amount of Defence Force lands or buildings which have been sold since 1997; the location of such lands or buildings; the size of such lands or buildings; the person of persons, or agency, to which these lands of buildings have been sold; the price paid for these lands or buildings; if this price was the actual market value for these...

Written Answers — Natural Heritage Areas: Natural Heritage Areas (7 Oct 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 382: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the proposal to designate lands at the Liffey Valley as a natural heritage area; when the lands concerned were proposed; the steps taken in respect of these lands to protect habitats and species; if the lands are confined to lands covered by the special area amenity order or if other...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (5 Apr 2007)

Dick Roche: In many cases in which a local authority compulsorily acquires land, the quantum of compensation is agreed between the parties concerned. Where there is no such agreement, the matter is referred to an official property arbitrator for determination. Generally, a claim for compensation in respect of the compulsory acquisition of land will comprise one or more of the following heads of claim:...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: 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 Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Transfers (31 Mar 2015)

Simon Coveney: Officials in the Lands Branch in my Department have carried out very detailed checks on the records relating to the lands allotted to Mr. Bermingham by the former Irish land Commission. These checks have established that lands were allotted and registered on three separate folios. There are currently burdens relating to undischarged land purchase annuities registered against these folios,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Nov 2020)

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 7.5% and is payable by the purchaser of the land. The fact that the sale happens after a death does not change this position. In some circumstances an exemption from stamp duty or a reduced charge applies. However, as the Deputy hasn’t supplied...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Special Protection Areas (16 Dec 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. Jason Fitzgerald: Irish Farmers with Designated Lands, IFDL, is a group representing farmers in regions within Ireland affected by the designation of lands for the hen harrier special protection area, SPA. The total land area affected by this designation is 169,000 hectares which affects more than 4,400 farmers. The aim of IFDL is to restore the value of designated land to the same...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams's party seems to want a system where it can increase income tax and introduce a raft of new charges, including commercial rates, land tax and corporation tax, to pay for some utopian land in which seems to live. It is not Enda land or Gerry land; it is fantasy land.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (15 Jun 2021)

Peter Burke: ...Local Government Act 2001 provides that, subject to law, a local authority is independent in the performance of its functions. As such, it is a matter for each local authority to control its own land assets. The Land Development Agency (LDA) is currently developing a register of all relevant public lands, which is lands owned by public bodies in population areas greater than 10,000. An...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (15 Dec 2009)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The windfall tax rate of 80%, which was introduced under the National Asset Management Agency Act, will apply 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...