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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (1 Nov 2007)

Mary Coughlan: The EU regulations governing the transfer of entitlements allow that Single Payment entitlements can be transferred with or without land but may only be transferred without land if 80% have been used in one calendar year. A farmer uses entitlements by declaring one hectare of eligible land per entitlement on his/her Single Payment application form. Under the relevant EU regulations, the...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 68: In page 65, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “(3) A Director shall— (a) where relevant works are to be carried out on principal burial land or ancillary burial land that is owned or occupied by a public body, by notice in writing inform the public body of his or her intention to carry out relevant works on the land, (b) where...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Relief Eligibility (31 May 2016)

Michael Noonan: I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that gifts and inheritances of agricultural property, including land, qualify for relief (known as 'agricultural relief') from the payment of Capital Acquisitions Tax (CAT) once certain conditions are satisfied. Section 89 of the Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act (CATCA) 2003 provides for 'agricultural relief'. The relief takes the form of...

State Property. (9 Nov 2005)

Paddy McHugh: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this very important matter this evening. My purpose in doing so is to establish the situation regarding lands in the ownership of the HSE in Tuam, Portumna and Ballinasloe, County Galway. The lands in Tuam were purchased more than three years ago by the old Western Health Board at the behest of the then Minister for Health and Children,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank Mr. Hogan for his answer. There are lands in different areas of County Limerick, for example, in Croom. At the moment, there is serviced land in Croom but the infrastructure's sewerage capacity only allows for 300 more units but the land zoned for development is for up to 1,000 units. There is serviced land, which has been taken over, but there is also a problem with capacity on an...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Jun 2016)

Michael Noonan: I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that gifts and inheritances of agricultural property, including land, qualify for relief (known as 'agricultural relief') from the payment of Capital Acquisitions Tax (CAT) once certain conditions are satisfied. Section 89 of the Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act (CATCA) 2003 provides for 'agricultural relief'. The relief takes the form of...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Darragh O'Brien: He is probably stirring the pot. This is zoned land and there are no surprises there. This is land that is zoned in the development plan and there are no material contraventions, no breaches of development plans and no breaches of local area plans, LAPs. It is land that was already identified. Most of us within the areas we represent will be aware of State-owned land that is zoned but has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Mr. Gerard Murphy: The other question was about exploring buying out and selling partnerships. I think the question was whether we are buying or selling land. We have sold land for a number of years where we feel that we can get multiples of the value of the forestry. In certain cases, we sell land through our land solutions division but we have a policy that where we sell land that is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (16 May 2018)

Michael Creed: The Terms and Conditions of the Basic Payments Scheme outline the requirements regarding the fencing of land. The Terms and Conditions state that there must be a defined external boundary, and that the boundary must be sufficient to control the farmers' and neighbouring animals. The only exemption to the requirement for stock-proof fencing is outlined in the Departments publication...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (7 Sep 2018)

Michael Creed: The Terms and Conditions of the Basic Payments Scheme outline the requirements regarding the fencing of land. The Terms and Conditions state that there must be a defined external boundary, and that the boundary must be sufficient to control the farmers' and neighbouring animals. The only exemption to the requirement for stock-proof fencing is outlined in the Department's publication...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (13 Apr 2005) See 1 other result from this answer

Noel Ahern: My Department does not have information on the total amount of land utilised for housing purposes in the past seven years. For the past number of years my Department has monitored overall levels of zoned residential lands. The results of the sixth national inventory of such land indicated that there were 12,500hectares of serviced residential land as at 30 June 2004. This would give an...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jun 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: ...53(2).”. I will speak to this amendment and amendments Nos. 138, 155, 156, 159, 161, 162, 167, 168, 181, 182 and 235. I am introducing a number of amendments to this Part regarding the process for valuing relevant public land that is being acquired by the Land Development Agency, LDA. I am also introducing some minor additions to ensure the initial sites the LDA is currently...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (26 Sep 2023)

Michael McGrath: In general, capital gains tax (CGT) is chargeable on a gain arising on the disposal of an asset, including agricultural land, at the rate of 33%. The first €1,270 of chargeable gains of an individual in any year are exempt from CGT. Section 604B of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 provides relief from CGT in respect of gains arising on transactions undertaken to achieve farm...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency: Financial Statements 2016 and 2017
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 102: National Asset Management Agency Second Progress Report (20 Sep 2018)

Bobby Aylward: I have a general question on the land portfolio and housing. What percentage of the land portfolio has been used over the past two years since NAMA got involved? How much of the land portfolio did NAMA envisage it would sell for housing at the very beginning? Earlier, one of my colleagues here mentioned local authorities did not take up land in places where they should have done so. How...

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (23 Feb 2006)

Michael McDowell: I am informed by the Registrar of Titles that the register of titles managed by the Land Registry currently covers about 2.4 million parcels of land. The boundaries of these titles are marked and maintained by the Land Registry on map sheets published by Ordnance Survey Ireland. Since the organisation was established in 1892, these Land Registry maps, now numbering about 32,000 active sheets,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (18 Dec 2018)

Michael Creed: As outlined in the Basic Payment Scheme Terms and Conditions, farmers are obliged to declare all lands on their “holding” as defined in Article 4, of Regulation (EC) No 1307/2013. If farmers intend to declare any land parcel where there is no agricultural activity undertaken they should reduce the claimed area to zero and insert a use of “Inactive” on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (12 Nov 2013)

Michael Noonan: I made provision in Budget 2013 for the following measure designed to assist farmers with consolidation of farm land. This measure followed on from measures in the previous year’s Budget which also supported farm expansion and the transfer of land. Section 48 of Finance Act 2013 provides for relief from capital gains tax on disposals of farm land for farm restructuring, subject to a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (24 May 2016)

Michael Noonan: Section 664 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (TCA) provides for a tax exemption in respect of income received by persons from certain long term leases of farm land. The purpose of the relief is to encourage more landowners to lease out land on a long term basis to active farmers thereby encouraging more productive use of the land. The farm land must be used by the lessee for the purpose of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 Jul 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department does not hold the details requested by the Deputy. 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 initial version of the register has been completed and is available on the LDA website. The Land Development Agency Bill will put the register on a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (4 Oct 2018)

Eoghan Murphy: On 13 September 2018, I launched the new Land Development Agency (LDA) which will act as a new commercial State body to actively manage the strategic development of public land. This new Agency will lead a new, intensive and vigorous process of looking at strategically placed blocks of particularly brownfield publicly owned development land and unlocking such lands full potential, working...