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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which Ireland continues to make progress towards meeting climate change issues with particular reference to flooding prevention, land drainage or management and any other issues of potential positive impact in meeting the various climate challenges in the future; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 98. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which efforts are being made to manage grasslands and tillage lands, given the sharp increase in rainfall; if consideration will be given to adequate drainage as opposed to allowing widespread flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18340/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if some consideration can be given to the development of a subsidised sites scheme on public or private lands with a view to making affordable or local authority housing more readily accessible; if any consideration has already been given to such a proposal and how it might meet current demands and as housing continues to be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...the extent to which efforts are being made to control house price inflation, including the possibility of having the local authorities engage builders to build public housing on State-owned lands to facilitate local authority and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15905/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (21 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...is, how to restore the access that was there before September last. At that time, some of us put forward the idea of seeking an interim injunction to state the case for the State to access its lands freely and at will. We were told that would not be successful and that the legal advice was wrong. The OPW had enough advice itself in September and when the threat of the closure of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Impact of Climate on Public Finances: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (28 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...the hottest year on record. If we go into the supermarkets and look at the products produced during the hottest year on record, there is ample evidence that the products were produced on flooded lands. We are told that flood plains are important and it is important that the flood goes somewhere when it has nowhere else to go, but nothing is as important as arterial drainage to contain...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...that those imports are better or that others are better at something. My last point, the Chairman will be glad to know, having spent a number of years at it before I came into this House, is land drainage. There was a network of land drains going back 100 years called trench drainage, which has almost disappeared. One of the main reasons is the compacting of the soil. The Romans...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (22 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 67. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he remains satisfied that productive agricultural land currently contributing to food production in this country is not decommissioned in favour of climate change objectives and that all possible scientific and dietary means are used to ensure carbon reduction without affecting the food-productive capacity of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the ongoing forestry development programme continues with due regard for the necessity to use marginal lands as opposed to lands suitable for food production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8608/24]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ..., proposals were announced. A great number of them have not advanced at all because A has to wait for B, B has to object yet, C awaits to see the outcome of A and B because C proceeds and eventually the projects land in the mire. It is very sad to see that kind of thing happen and to try to explain to the general public who do not understand why this sort of thing should happen with...

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)

Bernard Durkan: ...objections to the proposals now seem to carry more weight than the proposals. We should remember that if a solution is proposed that is required to protect the environment, people's homes and the landscape in general, then it has to be taken seriously. A means needs to be found to ensure the work in progress is not impeded by somebody who has another agenda, whatever that agenda may be....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 172. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to indicate the progress, if any, on the issue of Castletown House and lands in State ownership, access to which is being impeded, and given the fact that alternative access referred to by the OPW and the local authority is not suitable for traffic for either Leixlip or Celbridge and given that there appears to be no willingness to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: What we are seeing now is a progressive increase in the price of houses based on the costs associated with land acquisition, competition, market forces and so forth. The price is going up all the time. One of the things we should have learned from previous experience is that there is no provision whereby the price of housing property can go up all the time and survive. It cannot survive at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...is also important to note what everyone said at the time before it went wrong because we have experience in that area too. It is recent and important experience. A reference was made to the soft landing. I remember applying for that as a potential crash landing. I remember once getting-----

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...to which he remains satisfied that Irish farmers and the agrifood industry in general remain safeguarded into the future, notwithstanding competition, restrictions and-or requirements in regard to land rewetting, given the extent to which moisture abounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55724/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the growth and development of the fish processing sector, including landings in this jurisdiction over the past ten years; the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the future development of the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56229/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he remains satisfied that adequate protection is in place to ensure future protection of agriculturally productive land and the need to maintain high productivity in the future in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56233/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I have a document that shows the deeds of my house. There used to be the Land Registry. Another agency has some kind of joint function at the moment. What is happening in the market or in repossession cases is that lenders are relying on old-fashioned legislation to be able to go into court and say they have tolerated this long enough, lost X amount of money and it is imperative that they...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which serviced or serviceable lands, zoned or unzoned, have been identified by each of the local authorities in the greater Dublin area to facilitate a rapid build housing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54437/23]