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Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: .... I grew up on a dairy farm. Talking to all my neighbours and my dad, this is the worst period of weather we have had in my lifetime. It is affecting us in so many different ways in rural Ireland, not only from an agricultural point of view but from an infrastructure point of view as well. The soil conditions are atrocious and that is having an impact, obviously on planting and sowing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (10 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the expected final cost of the full construction of the new Nenagh community nursing home (including land costs).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15622/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (12 Dec 2023)

Alan Kelly: 419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant WTE staff, by job title, in the Land Development Agency; and when each of those vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [54943/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...it directly. I say "Well done" to them on that. My colleague went into the area I wanted to kick off on, which is the whole regulatory aspect of this. There is a misconception of what Sport Ireland does. I think they need to dial it up as regards being a development agency and not regulator. I apologise that I have less time than my colleague. The Office of the Director of...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...plenary session in July or September. We do not know whether they will go ahead. We need to bear this in mind. I grew up on a farm. I recall working very hard as a young kid trying to restore land. I live beside the River Shannon and I know all about the restoration of land. I was on a dairy farm for many years. We worked very hard and we were very proud of the land we restored....

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...nearly a next-door neighbour - could not get a place on the bus that brings him to secondary school. Even though his uncle drives the bus and lives in the next house and even though the bus is parked on his father's land overnight, he could not get on it because it was oversubscribed. Eventually, we got there, but we all know of hundreds of cases like this across the country, with people...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (31 Jan 2023)

Alan Kelly: 789. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of land that has been purchased to date in Ireland for use in the new forestry deal between Coillte and a company (details supplied); where is this located; and the amount it cost. [4618/23]

Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Rural Independents for this motion, which we will support. I come from a land-locked county but it does not take much analysis to know fishermen in our country have been let down. I have met people from west Cork and south Kerry, where I have many connections, as well as west Clare and further up the west coast. We are seeing negative change and you would feel for them. The...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...has claimed it cannot meet the scale of investment required. That is a legitimate point for the agency to make and the Labour Party and I accept it, but the Government should support it directly through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, or through the investment of new capital rather than outsource all the profits to the private sector. In a way, this is a siphoning-off of...

Appointment of Ordinary Members of An Coimisiún Toghcháin: Motion (14 Dec 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...commission. If there had to be an election following a census where we had a preliminary census, there are legal precedents for people taking cases in this area. Consequently, we were in a no-man's land where there was a legal requirement to establish a constituency commission under Part II of the Electoral Act 1997 once the preliminary results of the census were published. It was only...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: State Properties (10 Nov 2022)

Alan Kelly: 246. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will consider using the lands of Nenagh military barracks for social housing. [56083/22]

Living Wage Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 May 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...although it no longer really means much in this House. When the Minister of State and I first came in, that actually meant something, but there are now so many Bills sent off to never-never land that it does not really matter. I was more interested in how he concluded. He said that the report is with the Tánaiste, that it is being considered and that it will be published soon. I...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Alan Kelly: Home Building Finance Ireland was set up to provide finance to private developers at market rates for commercially viable housing developments. I would appreciate it if the Taoiseach would look into what I am about to raise with him. There is a small development funding product for developments under ten units through this organisation. However, while it will fund projects of between five...

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

Alan Kelly: ...x201c;Well done” to Patrick Murphy and all his colleagues in west Cork for what they have achieved over the last number of weeks. However, we cannot outsource our security, whether that is online, offline, on land or on sea. We cannot outsource it. The cyberattack on the HSE has shown our digital weaknesses. The Taoiseach set up a senior committee on national security, which...

Order of Business (7 Dec 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...Dún Laoghaire, Councillor Denis O'Callaghan, has been working on a co-operative housing proposal for ten years to deliver 42 homes on Loughlinstown Drive. It was to be delivered by Co-operative Housing Ireland, CHI, which had 34 social housing apartments. It also included eight three-bedroom homes that families in the Loughlinstown housing co-operative would receive. This important...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: The Finance Bill going through the House provides for a new zoned land tax to replace the vacant site levy, which should be collected properly in the meantime. However, the zoned land tax will apply only to serviced land and not to land with planning permissions in place. We will have to wait another year for a vacant homes tax. Our party is calling for the zoned land tax to apply much...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: Afforestation will play a key role in climate change mitigation; the Minister has acknowledged this. It has been a huge cost for us to have missed our afforestation targets in Ireland in recent years. Over the past five years, we have missed planting targets by more than 15,000 ha. Had this area been afforested, these forests had the potential to remove 5.4 million tonnes of carbon. This...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...Doing this would be of some help. There was nothing for renters. Tax cuts for workers will not cover the rent increases they are expected to face next year. As I have said, the State is not building enough homes. I heard what the Taoiseach said earlier about the zoned land tax. How many years will it take? We are two years down the road. I have read it and I understand it. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...down to 18 kg, and remember, he is ten. Adam and Christine were told by Crumlin hospital in December 2020 that the surgery would be done in the spring. That was once again put off to never-never land. In February, the date was put off to another six or nine months. That has not happened and last month Christine had a very difficult conversation with the clinicians in Crumlin. They are...