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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...lower than in much of the rest of the economy, people are getting out of farming. Why is income lower in farming? Why do we have a food sector that is phenomenally profitable but where the profit lands in the factory and supermarket and not in the farms? It is because the structure of the market is an oligopoly, which has been allowed to happen by the lack of competitive protections...

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

Peadar Tóibín: ...Government is in south Dublin. There are always exceptions to the rule. There is a constituency of Dublin Rathdown where all four TDs are ministers and there are ten counties in the west and midlands of the country where there are no Ministers at all. Regional and rural Ireland is not at the decision-making table on a regular basis, except in a token fashion. We have an incredible...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of family farms acquired by international investment funds, with the quantity of land by hectares, and farming type when acquired, for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17631/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (28 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Farmers are leaving the land in greater numbers than ever before. According to Teagasc, two thirds of farmers currently cannot make a living from the land alone. They have to either work elsewhere or are being driven into poverty. A total of 57% have an income of less than €20,000 per year. To put that in perspective, Ministers earn nearly ten times that figure per year. Those...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...red carpet was rolled out by the previous Fine Gael Government, with the support of Fianna Fáil on many occasions, in the provision of tax advantages to REITs. The REITs swooped in. They bought land, apartments and houses, mostly cheaply from the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, and they have extracted significant returns in that time, often while hiking up rents. Will the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...busted and are defending themselves in court against some of the biggest legal firms in Dublin. They are finding it increasingly difficult. One of the allegations that is being made is that the Land Registry is transferring land out of individuals' names and into the names of other people at the request of banks' solicitors - not at the request of judges, etc. Surely the Land Registry...

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

Peadar Tóibín: ...for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will undertake an assessment to determine whether or not EU proposals for rewetting the bogs may lead to flooding on neighbouring farm land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49283/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government is going into battle with hundreds of landowners in counties Meath, Cavan and Monaghan about the North-South interconnector. There are 409 pylons, 51 m in height, some of them only 13 m from people's homes. There is serious fear about the damage that could be done to health, the value of the properties, businesses, the equine industry and the tourism industry. Has EirGrid...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy Report: Statements (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...a say over what wars are fought. Irish neutrality has actually served us very well. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya were perfect examples of wars of which it was good and logical for Ireland to stay out. Obviously, one does not have to be neutral in identifying what is right and wrong or helping countries, even though our country is militarily neutral. This is why it is up to...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a saying that the past is a foreign country but for many people in Ireland today, this Dáil is becoming a foreign country - a Dáil that they no longer recognise as representing their own views. This Dáil is the most draconian Dáil in generations. Unfortunately, there is an authoritarian streak running through the political establishment in Ireland and it is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance what lobbying has been documented on the file pertaining to the setup and development and implementation of the residential zoned land tax. [34200/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: .... To ask the Minister for Finance how many planning authority/local authority officials raised concerns with his Department in relation to the implementation and execution of the residential zoned land tax. [34211/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...for Finance what influence, if any, his Department or the Revenue Commissioners have on the adoption of the broad-brush approach used to creating, mapping and implementing the residential zoned land tax. [34203/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance what consideration was given to the impact of residential zoned land tax liabilities on working farm incomes and the impact of this tax on the income of farming families, many of whom are operating on the knife-edge of viability. [34208/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance the input from the Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the formation of the residential zoned land tax and the criteria for exclusion, given that there is no exclusion for working farmland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34209/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has given any consideration to rescinding and reconsidering the residential zoned land tax in its current format until the multitude of problems associated with its scoping and implementation have been resolved. [34212/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in relation to the scoping maps for the residential zoned land tax, what is the total area of land, in hectares, currently scoped to which the residential zoned land tax may apply; and if a breakdown can be provided by these areas, by planning authority area. [34195/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what percentage of the lands, nationally the residential zoned land tax ‘scoped lands’ occupies. [34196/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what percentage of the lands, by local authority/ planning authority area, the residential zoned land tax scoped lands occupies. [34197/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the ‘Housing Lands Availability Survey (HLAS) was not updated to accommodate the most recent residential lands identified. [34202/23]