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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Farrell: 222. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 20 March 2024, the reasons the relief on capital gains tax and capital acquisitions tax for landowners who have leased their land for the production of solar energy was not extended to landowners who have leased their land for the production of wind energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16305/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (20 Mar 2024)

Alan Farrell: 272. To ask the Minister for Finance in a context where the Finance Act 2017 introduced relief on capital gains tax and capital acquisitions tax for landowners who have leased their land for the production of solar energy where the area of the land on which the solar panels are installed does not exceed half the total area of the land concerned, the reason a similar relief was not provided to...

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

Alan Farrell: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the work of Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54062/23]

Capital Support for Sports Facilities: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Alan Farrell: ...easy for a club to recognise where it has come within that process by filling out the forms appropriately, and making sure they tick all the boxes individually or with their local authority if the land is under management agreement. That is a really welcome and important step in this process. If I am honest, and this is not a remark with any intent behind it, the days of some Deputy or...

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Alan Farrell: ...on work such as the recent announcement of a 2,000 ha project at Glenasmole in County Wicklow. This project, which is being led by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, will see native woodland planting, bog rehabilitation, increasing biodiversity and more. This will result in increased carbon storage, reduced soil erosion and improvements to water quality in the area. This is...

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

Alan Farrell: ...proposal for the introduction of a nature restoration law. Under that proposal, the Commission has proposed that protective measures should be introduced to cover a minimum of 20% of all the EU's land and sea areas by 2030, in time extending to all ecosystems that are in need of restoration by 2050. The proposed regulation - I stress the word "proposed" - would require each member state...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Alan Farrell: ...in 1966 to go to the UK and my brothers left these shores to go to the UK and the US respectively. They have not returned yet but I hope they will. My uncles left in the 1940s and the 1950s to Scotland and South Africa, and these stories are not unique. It is not all that long ago that Irish people leaving Ireland in search of a better life were met with hostility or discrimination upon...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2023)

Alan Farrell: ...lost to history, like in my community. I live on a hill in Malahide, overlooking Lambay Island, which, of course, although the precise year is disputed, was where we understand the Vikings first landed. An archaeological assessment was completed on the hill where I live in the mid-1990s. Vast quantities of pottery and other items were found going back hundreds of years, if not over a...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Alan Farrell: ...Coillte and farmers throughout the country, those spaces will be increased dramatically in coming decades. I understand the Government intends to increase the numbers of trees planted in Ireland. This will not only help us meet the challenges we face, and I will discuss those issues shortly, but it will also allow us to provide significant amounts of recreational forests and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (25 Jan 2023)

Alan Farrell: 178. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the acreage for land use and square meterage for building use that will be required for the planned elective hospitals in Cork and Galway, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3563/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Alan Farrell: ...since 2016. Since then, our targets have increased significantly but our actual afforestation rate has dropped to below 20% of target, to the best of my knowledge. We have touched on swapping land use, as Professor Joosten called it, in terms of what we can achieve with this latest iteration of the afforestation plan. The key question for everybody in the committee is whether it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Alan Farrell: I have two more quick questions. One of them is in relation to the measurement of the benefits of particular uses for particular pieces of land, whether they be rewetted peatland or rewetted forestry lands that were inappropriately used in the eyes of our witnesses. Do we have the expertise for that? Alternatively, does Dr. Moran believe we have the ability to develop that expertise to...

Annual Transition Statement: Statements (15 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: ...that if we are to achieve our goals in the years ahead, we must remove some of the barriers that are still holding back our full potential. Wind and solar energy offer huge potential on this island and to all our communities. We must ensure that our planning framework, our taxation system in respect of such projects and our capacity to have a fully modern electricity grid, matches...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Jun 2022)

Alan Farrell: 385. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the challenges facing the renewables industry on the issue of capital acquisitions tax given that it applies to lands used for solar farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29532/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Challenge and Opportunity for Local Authorities in Climate Action: Discussion (31 May 2022)

Alan Farrell: ...going to be a problem in the future in terms of clean-ups, including discharges into our rivers and lakes, and the impact that can have on flora and fauna, water, aquatic life and the general quality of land surrounding our lakes and rivers? There is a broad range of questions there to top up what had already been asked by the Chair and Deputy O'Rourke.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Alan Farrell: ...thing I am interested in for the rest of this debate is what Deputy Duncan Smith referred to, that is, that the service be provided, that there be no iconography associated with the owner of the land, and that the services provided within the hospital are compliant with the law set out in this House and by the medical profession itself. That is all that has interested me throughout this...

Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Alan Farrell: ...we impose on certain sectors and industries in order to attempt to stop that dramatic increase in biodiversity loss. We have a particular responsibility to recognise that habitats are not just on land or in rivers but are also in our seas. The greatest example of something like that occurring is the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, but we do not have to go too far from these Houses to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (11 Jan 2022)

Alan Farrell: ...As others have said, their work is really valuable and we would not be here without them. They had particular time constraints. It is really appreciated. I have three questions on energy systems, land use and transport, with an interrelated question on planning in terms of density. I listened carefully to Dr. Daly's response to Deputy Bruton on how quickly people will accept change in...

Air Accident Investigation Unit Final Report into R116 air accident: Statements (17 Nov 2021)

Alan Farrell: ...the aircraft went down in the Atlantic Ocean. We know the equipment on board Rescue 116 that was designed to aid navigation during night-time flights or in low-visibility scenarios did not show the island, leaving the crew without crucial information. We also know the communication between relevant authorities was not clear, and incorrect and incomplete information was conveyed, leading...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Alan Farrell: ...sharing my time with Deputy Griffin. I welcome the introduction of the Housing for All plan and the opportunity to debate it in the House. Building on the work produced through Rebuilding Ireland, this proposal will make a significant difference for people in society, benefiting those in need of social homes, renters, older people and those seeking to purchase their first home....