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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (20 Feb 2024)

John Paul Phelan: ...Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline all of the funding streams that are available to any sports club wishing to embark on a development project that is in excess of €500,000 excluding land purchase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7434/24]

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

John Paul Phelan: ...-old at a music festival, a music festival where up to 300 people were slaughtered. Many will have seen the images of the people on the gliders coming in from Gaza, as in some sci-fi terror movie, and landing and butchering the festivalgoers barbarically. I find it absolutely amazing that, in the discussion on Palestine and Israel, even the Irish citizens who have been killed cannot be...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (2 Mar 2023)

John Paul Phelan: 151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration has been given to the zoning of land for electrolyser facilities in the context of renewable hydrogen production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10721/23]

Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Security: Statements (12 May 2022)

John Paul Phelan: ...ago. Notwithstanding that I am part of the Government, I want to pose to the Minister the central contradiction that is at the core of the views expressed by many people who outright oppose rural Ireland and the protection of family farms and the agriculture sector. Some of those sadly reside in the Government. As the world's population continues to grow exponentially, who is going...

Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (16 Jun 2021)

John Paul Phelan: ...order to keep the farms afloat. The Deputy also made a valid point about winners and losers that could emerge on the basis of what is being spoken about in this round of CAP discussions. There is poor land and there are disadvantaged areas in every county, not least in my county. It strikes me that Kilkenny and Carlow, the counties I represent, and neighbouring Wexford are, as the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (13 Jan 2021)

John Paul Phelan: 135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or his officials have engaged with TII with a view to maximising the potential for native tree planting on existing TII lands adjacent to national road routes in circumstances in which such planting would comply with all relevant road safety demands (details supplied) and provide the State with an additional capacity for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (20 Oct 2020)

John Paul Phelan: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the Land Development Agency, LDA, and its capacity to accept freedom of information, FOI, requests in view of recent remarks in which it seems the LDA will now be subject to FOI. [31110/20]

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

John Paul Phelan: ...officer scheme. I think Kilkenny was one of the first local authorities to take it up. Green Party policy includes the introduction of biodiversity officers. I am always struck by the amount of land, whether it is in the hands of local authorities, the HSE, the Office of Public Works, Transport Infrastructure Ireland - the thousands of acres in each local authority area - which is not...

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

John Paul Phelan: ...that councils need any extra powers in this regard. At the time the vacant site levy was introduced, and in respect of the amending legislation which was brought in afterwards in relation to farm lands, the powers were put in place. I saw the report to which the Deputy referred and she is right to point out her concerns. I am not trying to underestimate anything Deputy Ó Broin said...

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

John Paul Phelan: -----will still be judged by each of the planning authorities and by An Bord Pleanála. An Bord Pleanála was mentioned earlier. It is the ultimate planning authority in the land. It will deal with any current applications or applications made in the near future with regard to co-living.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Area Plans (18 Dec 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...planning policy, which encourages new housing accessible to such high-quality public transport facilities in the interest of sustainable development. The local area plan did not identify the lands adjacent to Hazelhatch train station for immediate development due, primarily, to flood management issues. Kildare County Council has engaged consultants to address the issue, with a final...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...run counter to the arguments made before the Supreme Court when the Part V provisions were tested for their constitutionality. The central plank of the Bill, requiring up to 30% of residential lands to be reserved for housing for sale to first-time buyers, would be counterproductive. This approach assumes that first-time buyers are all the same and that they only seek to buy new houses,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (27 Nov 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...Statement for 2018 is currently under review in order to determine the amount of the next payment. The allocation that will be due when that review is complete will be for use at Sligo County Council's discretion and can be directed towards the costs of establishing a Land Asset Team, if that is the preferred approach. 

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres Provision (23 Oct 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...a significant population centre and we need to provide additional facilities for it. Following the closure of the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas last October, Dublin City Council acquired land on two adjacent but separate sites from the archdiocese at that location. The council is now working to develop this land. I understand that the smaller site at the rear of the church will...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Harbour Authorities (22 Oct 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...First, the final accounts must be presented. Then it is a matter for the council to bring forward its proposals on regeneration works for necessary regeneration and also for further economic development of the port and the port's lands into the future.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (24 Sep 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...Development Act 2000. Moreover, development plans are statutorily reviewed every six years. I cannot prejudge the contents of a future development plan but in view of the strategic nature of these lands to the orderly development of Dublin, I expect that the relevant development plans would consider the appropriate future development of this area.

Seanad: Local Government Rates and Other Matters Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Jul 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...revaluation process. I have not encountered many. The Senator also spoke about local authorities' annual budgetary process. The Irish Poor Law Act 1838 was almost religious in its undertones. It was about the landed class giving alms, as it were, to those who required upkeep in times of hardship. That is the basis of our rates legislation. The system of local government has changed...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (2 Jul 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...Dáil last week, contains a provision, for the introduction of rates alleviation (waiver) schemes by local authorities to support important policy objectives contained in local, economic, community and land use plans. The Bill is a key legislative priority of my Department.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (16 Apr 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ...result in the delivery of over 1,400 homes in urban centres with clear affordability challenges in locations across Cork and Dublin. Details of these schemes and their locations are available on the Rebuilding Ireland website and it is expected that the first tranche of affordable homes will come on-stream next year. A second call for further applications under this fund was issued last...

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

John Paul Phelan: ..., Deputy Eoghan Murphy, had to leave early. He cannot speak twice in the debate in any case, but as he outlined earlier, many of the aims in the motion are already being achieved through either the Land Development Agency or other Rebuilding Ireland housing policy initiatives. The immediate focus of the Land Development Agency, LDA, is on managing the State's lands to develop new...