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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (1 May 2024)

Colm Burke: ...place at the right time. The delivery of a primary care centre in Inishbofin remains a priority for the HSE. This project has been delayed due to legal processes associated with the transfer of land from Galway County Council. Until these legal processes conclude, it is not possible to provide a definitive timeframe for the development of the Inishbofin centre. Can I just say-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (1 May 2024)

Colm Burke: ...capital plan funding. The delivery of a primary care centre in Inishbofin remains a priority for the HSE. This project has been delayed due to legal processes associated with the transfer of land from Galway County Council to the Department of Rural and Community Development and the subsequent transfer of a portion of that land from that Department to the HSE. The HSE has advised that...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I wish to a focus on an issue that I brought to the attention of the Committee of Public Accounts and which relates to land at Brooklodge, Glanmire, leased by Cork County Council to the FAI. I want clarification. It is 30 acres of land that has been lying idle for more than ten years. My understanding from the briefing we received is...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...highlighted in August. We have a growing area in Glanmire with a considerable young population who do not have access to sports facilities at a time when the association is sitting on 30 acres of land that is lying idle and growing daisies.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...what it was told. I met John Delaney down there some years ago and he told us quite clearly that the local club would not get the use of this facility. Therefore, it went off and got alternative land and there is a planning application in for it. That is on a completely different site.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Would Mr. Courell not accept that FAI has land from a local authority from over ten years ago. Okay, Mr. Courell is saying the lease was only six years but it is still six years. The FAI has an obligation to work through, in a reasonably timely manner, when public land is made available for the development of sports facilities for young people in a particular area.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...30 acres within the next three to four years, would it not be an opportunity to sit down with other organisations to see how it can be worked out together? This is public money. This is public land that has been given to the FAI. The taxpayers own it, in real terms. It is not being used by an organisation that has substantial funding from central Government.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...to my question on the issue of Glanmire where there are growing urban areas and about the input of Sport Ireland and indeed the Department with local authorities in making sure there are adequate lands kept for the development of sports facilities. It seems to be very much a hit and miss operation. The local authority grants planning permission for housing. Then we are talking about...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Development in a lot of areas still depends on voluntary organisations acquiring the land, putting the entire project together and sometimes competing with developers and everyone else. I have never seen a developer come along and develop a whole facility at the same time as developing housing. There is then the issue of co-ordinating facilities, like having sports facilities near primary...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...more in this area as regards co-ordination of development of our schools or sports facilities, and at the same time of areas in a co-ordinated way rather than coming back ten years later to try to find land?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (30 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: ...one organisation, which has not commenced any development yet it is not prepared to hand it back, whereas other organisations do not have the space. There needs to be engagement to make sure the land is made available because of the number of young people in the area – well over 1,500 young people in a secondary school alone, and at least another 1,500 if not 1,800 young people in...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: ...arms, munitions and the supply of same are the key issues. I am referring to Ukraine and Israel's attack on Gaza. I am concerned that enough effort is not being made at European level. Yes, Ireland is making an effort, but I am disappointed that other member states of the European Union are not coming on board to work together to bring and restore peace. I am also concerned that the...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: I very much welcome the motion that has been brought forward. We have 2.1 million people living as hostages in a small area of land with no escape, no support, no access to medical care, no housing and no food. A total of 50% of the population is under the age of 19. This is a huge challenge in a state of 2.1 million people. There are 25,000 dead, 10,000 of whom are children. We then...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Allotments Provision (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 808. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what action his Department is taking in conjunction with local authorities to ensure that land is secured in urban areas for the development of allotments and community gardens, given many community gardens nationally have temporary licences which can have implications for funding purposes for projects and garden...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: On the land aggregation scheme, 736 houses have been delivered over 13 years. That works out at 56 houses per annum. Under proposals for development, the Department is talking about 12 sites. Why is it taking so long to get proposals for development? In fairness, 13 years is a long time to get to that point. If a private developer acquires land and does not have it developed 13 years...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: The period from when the local authority acquires land to actually getting a development is the issue. Has the Department examined how each local authority is performing as regards the timescale? Can they become more efficient in the delivery?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: On the issue of accountability, to return to the LAGS and the acquisition of land, I will give two examples. Naas Town Council acquired 5 h of land for over €8 million, which works out at around €2 million per hectare. Likewise, Cork County Council acquired land at a cost of over €700,000 per hectare in 2001. There did not appear to be any accountability at that stage....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: ...for older people to meet up or for any kind of healthcare service to be provided locally. My understanding is that there is no plan at present to build a medical centre there even though there is land available. What level of co-ordination is going on between the Department of Health and local authorities to deal with that aspect, looking at the increase in population, the increasing...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: I agree with the proposal. As I said, I have a concern in respect of one aspect of the FAI which relates to it having possession of land which has being lying vacant for over ten years. Other organisations are not being allowed to use it even though it is urgently required in the growing urban area of Glanmire in Cork. All of these issues, especially those raised by Deputy O'Connor, are of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: ...the Marine if he and his Department will continue to advocate at European Union Parliament level to address the barriers faced by young farmers to access agricultural activity including access to land, access to finance, access to markets and fair remuneration for work, access to knowledge and training, and the need of public policies to address these issues; and if he will make a...