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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Planning Issues (29 Feb 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that when the residential zoned land tax comes into force in January 2025, it will have profound implications for many farmers and small landowners who are not developers, but have owned their land for generations; if the Government will provide exemptions from the residential zoned land tax for individuals who are not developers, as the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (20 Sep 2023)

Willie O'Dea: ...if he will provide an update to the response received from An Taoiseach in early May 2023 to this Deputy’s Question on Promised Legislation (details supplied) regarding the residential zoned land tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39687/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 Jun 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that the residential zoned land tax, as currently constituted, could have profound implications for many farmers and small landowners who are not developers, but have owned their land for generations; if the Government will provide exemptions from the residential zoned land tax for individuals who are not developers; and if he will make a...

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

Willie O'Dea: While I agree with the principle of the residential zoned land tax, is the Government aware that as currently constituted, that tax could have profound implications for many farmers. I am talking about genuine farmers many of whose families have farmed the land for generations. They are not interested in availing of the uplift in financial terms caused by rezoning. In fact, they have not...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Willie O'Dea: ..., Limerick, which has the space, expertise and track record to make this an outstanding success. Does the Taoiseach agree that the provision of a State hospital, provided by the State on State lands, is infinitely preferable to what is being mooted by the HSE at present, which is some type of public private partnership with a controversial American outfit?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Willie O'Dea: ...Shannon Airport has been nothing short of a disgrace. They are looking to be allowed to return to work. Shannon Airport, technically, is still in operation. We saw that today with the emergency landing of a plane bringing in protective equipment. Shannon Airport was the only airport in the country in which it could land. The workers are there. They should be allowed to work part-time...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (8 Oct 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason there is building of expensive private homes on public lands at a location (details supplied) in view of the fact the existing cost rental mode of building being piloted at another location could provide affordable and secure public homes to low and middle income earners in Dublin city; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: .... I think that what is happening in respect of the association's difficulties with scope raises questions as to whether there is any interest in enforcing what we all understand to be the law of the land? In his opening statement Captain Cullen points out the criteria set out by the Revenue Commissioners and demonstrates very clearly that these criteria point almost exclusively in one...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (16 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 646. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to use lands from old institutions for housing, both social and private, in view of the fact the moneys made from the sale of these lands were promised to be used to develop mental health services and that this is a commitment under A Vision For Change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41753/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (9 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is his policy that complex regeneration projects will ensure that 60% of the development on public owned land will be for private sale at market prices; his views on the regeneration project in Inchicore, Dublin 8; if the project falls into the category of complex regeneration projects; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (25 Sep 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 515. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which housing waiting lists are to be met in the context of the Land Development Agency operating a 10% ceiling on public owned building land to be used for social housing purposes; his views on whether the waiting list figures indicate a housing boom would be required to meet the demand; if local authorities will...

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Willie O'Dea: ...Frost, he promised to travel the road less travelled. There has obviously been a change in attitude and now he is travelling the road marked, "How to win a general election". I will fill the deficit by quoting a famous Irish poet, Oliver Goldsmith:Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. The Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, referred extensively...

Gateway Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2014)

Willie O'Dea: ...psyche. If nothing else proves that it is proved by the fact that in the past three years alone, 0.25 million people or one in eight of the adult population of this country left their kith and kin and the security of home to go to strange lands to seek employment when they could not get it here. That is a reality. The vast majority of those were young people under the age of 26 because...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: ...are under the age of 26 and who currently would get a certain amount, will get less but that is not a cut. It is simply moving people into a different category. The whole thing is redolent of the line in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland - "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less". George...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (22 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: ...the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has any further update on the restoration of the national monument at Moore Street, Dublin 1; if he has facilitated a meeting with Chartered Land on this matter; the outcome of this meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44507/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (24 Sep 2013)

Willie O'Dea: ...of hectares applied for under the single payment scheme in each year since 2006; the number of hectares deemed ineligible each year; the number of farmers who applied each year; the number who had land declared ineligible each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39538/13]

Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)

Willie O'Dea: No. 25 on the legislative programme, the land and conveyancing law reform (amendment) Bill, is designed to remove any barriers in the way of banks that wish to repossess property from people to whom they have lent money. Does the Government intend to proceed with this legislation? If so, when will we see it?

Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The justice section of the legislative programme includes a land and conveyancing law reform (amendment) Bill, which is intended to remove unintended constraints on banks to realise the value of loan collateral. In other words, it will remove the obstacles which stand in the way of banks repossessing houses. When does the Taoiseach intend to introduce that legislation?

Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (16 May 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...starved of credit. The Minister need not take my word for that. No less an authority than the Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Patrick Honohan, has stated that for small businesses, Ireland is the most difficult country in the eurozone in which to access credit. That is some statement from the Governor of the Central Bank. As the Minister indicated, the Government imposed...

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 Mar 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...the full extent of the corruption in respect of rezonings and planning permissions in the Dublin area. I represent an urban area, although a much smaller one, that required a fair amount of land rezoning as the suburbs spread out from the 1970s onwards. However, there was not a hint of anything similar to that which occurred in Dublin. The former Minister for the Environment, Heritage...