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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)

Barry Cowen: 13. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the progress being made by the Land Development Agency in providing affordable and social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15665/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Policy (29 Feb 2024)

Barry Cowen: ...is imperative in light of the reaction by some to what was agreed this week that the Government clearly state in this House that any scheme will be voluntary, we can meet our commitment from State lands, anybody who does not participate will not be impacted in respect of their single farm payment, and this funding will be separate from CAP. I note that the funding is in place from the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Policy (29 Feb 2024)

Barry Cowen: ...the bona fides and goodwill of an EU-wide programme to increase biodiversity, restore habitats and allow nature to flourish, it could not, should not and will not be at the expense of Ireland's agriculture and food-producing sector. There was genuine fear and concern when it was first published. The reference to reducing the use of peaty soils, for example, would, of course, have...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (15 Feb 2024)

Barry Cowen: 127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the long-term sustainable funding of the Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6800/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 Feb 2024)

Barry Cowen: 149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the construction of new homes on State land sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6801/24]

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...has brought two judicial reviews. He brought four in 2022, three in 2021, one in 2020, three in 2015, two in 2013, three in 2012 and one in 2011. Could one man living in a very small town in Ireland holding up hundreds and hundreds of houses really have an interest in counties like Laois, many miles from him? We read recently about the carry-on in Milltown in Dublin where a massive...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...them. That needs to be identified. I urge the Minister of State to bring that message back to the Department. Making a development is a consultative process, as we know. For example, in zoning land for residential purposes, the development plan must have regard to such matters as the national and regional spatial strategies; set density guidelines; demand design standards; the need to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (9 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...this very dangerous junction, many parents, grandchildren, staff and children take their lives into their hands daily in the mornings and afternoons. Indeed, a recent report published by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, part of which was published in the Irish Independent on 5 October, noted that many projects had been taken off the table, thus increasing the potential for death and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Just Transition (27 Sep 2023)

Barry Cowen: 2. To ask the Taoiseach his response to the NESC’s report, Just Transition in Agriculture and Land Use. [36287/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Just Transition (27 Sep 2023)

Barry Cowen: .... I wish to focus on one of those elements, that being, the good agricultural and environmental condition, GAEC. On first glance, it appears to go much further than was committed to under peatlands restoration. Bord na Móna drew down approximately €100 million from the European Commission for its restoration and rewetting programme. The National Parks and Wildlife...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...considers the figures that Dr. Casey mentioned. If the international average for such receipts is 8% and we are at 28%, and we are trying to be prudent by saying that realistically, it will maybe land at 14%, then that vehicle has to be put in place to ensure that this issue is put to bed into the future. Insofar as we can when we are dealing with our own constituents, we all try to, I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (25 Apr 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...to the CEO and management with a view to re-establishing the good faith and goodwill that can help with the wider issues I mentioned. When Bord na Móna was set up in the 1940s, much of the land was provided not only by compulsory purchase, as might have been the case in some instances, but by many landowners giving their land freely to realise an ambition they never thought would...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...much more mediated version. Certainly we looked at the report compiled by the Commission on Taxation and Welfare that recommended we keep the current housing tax set up and simply apply the tax to land. Would the witnesses like to comment on that? Is that how they envisage it? Other countries in the EU have that kind of half-and-half version.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (23 Feb 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...Lough Boora, which involved the local community working together with the board to ensure it became the success that we know it is. It involves many aspects of biodiversity too. There is a vast excess of land beyond that mentioned which the board might not necessarily be able to keep pace with, considering the demands, expectation and ambition contained within the State's...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (23 Feb 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...of ongoing changes. Bord na Móna's remit and role as set down by the Government back in the 1940s was to create sustainable jobs and deliver local affordable sources of energy. It was gifted lands by many landowners who could not before that derive a livelihood or make a contribution to their communities' well-being. Bord na Móna delivered well on that remit. It built...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ukraine War: Ambassadors of Ukraine and Moldova (21 Feb 2023)

Barry Cowen: I join the Chair in assuring our guests of Ireland's absolute and unwavering support for the Ukrainian people and their Government. We will continue, undoubtedly, to do the right thing by the Ukrainian people and offer a safe port for the massive number of them who are displaced. No matter how challenging it is, no-one in this country could be facing the horrors the ambassador's people are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...of the directive have been so transposed? I am anxious to ensure there is potential for large-scale community projects which would, for example, be catered for in the event of Bord na Móna lands being returned to communities which provided those lands to Bord na Móna when that opportunity arose in the 1940s. Now that the community gain is not what it was then and not what had...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Barry Cowen: .... As was said already by many here, we have record funding for Housing for All, affordable schemes when there was none, cost-rental schemes when there was none, first homes schemes when there was none, and a Land Development Agency that will build public housing on public lands, but the Opposition still opposed it. We extended the help-to-buy scheme, introduced the tax credit for...

Energy Security: Statements (27 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: ...forced me at the time to ensure that the Government ring-fenced carbon tax revenue and contributed to a just transition fund to assist with fuel poverty-proofing. It also meant that the peat regions of Ireland would be included in the then coal regions transition fund initiated by the EU together with the national development plan, which matched that funding last year, totalling...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Barry Cowen: Many years ago tribunals were put in place by the State to root out many malpractices associated with land zoning and consequently planning. Thankfully, new procedures, obligations and processes were put in place, many overseen by the likes of SIPO. I know that is up for review based on recent events, notwithstanding many other events also. The Dáil will take up that challenge in the...