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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (14 Feb 2024)

Marc MacSharry: ...housing application in Sligo, which is for one three-bedroom detached house. It is on half of a site that currently has full planning permission for two semi-detached houses. It is on zoned serviced land, and would be deemed an infill site within an existing estate. The same objector who objected to the original planning permission appealed it to An Bord Pleanála with the same...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Marc MacSharry: ...can. In effect, what we will have here is potentially a brass plate on Merrion Square with" Gresham House" on it. Its investors, wherever they will be in the world, will be the owners of land here. That is where the premia will go. That is where the beneficiaries will be. What is more, funds such as Gresham House will likely flip that investment multiple times between now and the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: This question is for the Taoiseach. As part of the nation's welcome efforts to accommodate Ukrainian refugees running for their lives, in an unprecedented development, on Sligo County Council-owned lands, the OPW and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth have invoked emergency planning regulations to erect 24 very fine modular homes exclusively for Ukrainian...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Marc MacSharry: ...the challenges of what is a housing emergency. One such example of this is the dezoning which followed the crash. We all felt it was appropriate at the time and that we had too much zoned land. These are called strategic land reserves in most areas. Let us use my county of Sligo as an example. I contacted five developers today regarding the strategic land reserve there in respect...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Marc MacSharry: ...am not blessed with Irish. I did not study hard enough. Nevertheless, I found the programme immensely entertaining. It just shows there is life after politics. What is the total area of the land remaing at Montrose after the sale of the 8.6 acres?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Marc MacSharry: ...do. It reduced the debt by €10 million and did several other things. The net price per acre was pretty good. It is a very sought after part of Dublin. At approximately €10 million an acre, the remaining land would fetch in the region of €200 million. Going back to the time of the former Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Alex White, one of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Correspondence (24 Feb 2021)

Marc MacSharry: ...negative interest rates charges are to apply to solicitor client accounts used for commercial and conveyancing transactions handled by solicitors, including the buying and selling of houses and land; if he considers this appropriate; and his views on whether this will have a detrimental effect on consumers and create an additional financial burden on borrowers hoping to acquire a home....

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...were pulling their weight in terms of forestry, then we would be in a better position. County Leitrim, instead of hanging around 11% in terms of national cover, has a higher rate of coverage. Coverage in Ireland is the lowest in Europe, as previous speakers have said. The average Europe-wide is 30%. In Leitrim we are probably closer to the 30% figure. As Deputies may be aware, the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...that they leased it as a builder's yard. I asked if there was a change of use in planning permission for that and we did not get any answers. There is no doubt that there are people hoarding land nationally but in some instances we will probably have developers who are very hard-pressed to try to get a project off the ground and having to pay their vacant site tax while agencies of the...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (2 Apr 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...economic sense, I am sure we in this House are agreed that some sort of a Marshall Plan will be required to kick off the economy. While I appreciate that the Marshall Plan was not being drawn during the D-Day landings, we must have a team of people who begin to focus on that. On a Europe-wide basis we will have to find a mechanism to set aside or warehouse the vast cost associated with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...back to when we were in Government ourselves and back into the 1980s. Governments are now expensive commentators. References are made to a matters being for Dublin City Council, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, the NTA and-or Dublin Bus. These are regarded as matters for everybody but us and there is no leadership. The attitude is that we are not experts and that therefore we will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...funding for greenways. As we heard earlier, Cycling.iehas done an analysis showing that in 2018 the budget for cycling would be about 3% of the transport budget. If we note the percentages from the total land transport budget for 2020, the amount is €1.82 billion. In the past, subheading B8 was for sustainable transport, and approximately 32.26% of that budget in previous years...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Marc MacSharry: Are those lands owned and vacant? Are they greenfield sites?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Marc MacSharry: That is comparing apples and oranges. We are also the only country to have counties such as Sligo and Leitrim. We are in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with have small holdings and bad land and are very dependent on the suckler herd and so on.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...legitimate for us to criticise it. If it is the fault of the Commission that the parameters are so narrow, it certainly deserves to be bashed. The accounts note a significant number of lands held by the Department. This is a matter I raise with other Departments. Has the Department obtained a valuation for those lands? Why is there no valuation for them in the accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Marc MacSharry: In addition to land and buildings, six fishery harbour centres are vested in the Minister.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...by such and such are. I will not do that, however. There are 40 holdings, some of which are small, but I would hazard a wild guess that nobody from the Department has walked near them since the Land Commission gave them to it 100 years ago. It is quite likely the assets have been lost to the State as a result of squatters' rights. I recommend that an assessment be done of all the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Development Projects (17 Oct 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...threshold on the new runway at Dublin Airport will interfere with the ability of all wide body aircraft currently in the global civilian fleet operating on long haul and ultra-long haul routes to land, operating at their maximum landing weight, even in typical Irish weather of low atmospheric pressure and wet conditions, for example, a wet runway. [42669/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Development Projects (17 Oct 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...currently in the global civilian fleet operating on long haul and ultra-long haul routes will be able to return in an emergency shortly after take-off to the new runway 10L/28R at their maximum landing or take-off weight. [42670/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Development Projects (17 Oct 2019)

Marc MacSharry: 265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the landing distance available on the new runway at Dublin Airport (details supplied). [42671/19]