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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (20 Feb 2024)

James Lawless: ...Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will appoint a new mediator to reopen negotiations in relation to the request to the CSSO in late 2023 from the legal representatives of the current owner of the lands at Castletown Demesne; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7532/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

James Lawless: 1232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grants are available for a person on the farm register to remove trees on private land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57165/23]

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

James Lawless: ...has a duty to probe, analyse and understand what is happening before we form conclusions. Any breaches of international law are unacceptable. Bunreacht na hÉireann upholds basic civil rights. Ireland is a member of the European Union and is a party to the European Convention on Human Rights, which both enshrine fundamental human rights in our system. International law must be...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

James Lawless: ...is familiar with the background. Unfortunately, half of the estate has gone into private ownership, and not only has 200 acres been lost to the State and the public but access to the house and remaining lands has been compromised as a result, with what is called the N4 access taken away. We have met the Office of Public Works, OPW, and the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, and we...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (3 Oct 2023)

James Lawless: 263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the mediation process currently underway in relation to lands at Castletown Estate, County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42212/23]

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy: Statements (18 May 2023)

James Lawless: ...is often mentioned in these debates, and who I commemorate every year in Sallins, County Kildare, as I am sure many in this House do. Wolfe Tone welcomed and embraced the French fleet when General Humbert landed at Killala in the middle of 1798. He worked with "gallant allies abroad", as the 1916 Proclamation states. We have always worked with others, identified common-minded groupings...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Disinformation and Hybrid Threats in a Geopolitical Context: Discussion (16 May 2023)

James Lawless: ...in disinformation. To what extent can we learn from pre-online? There has always been disinformation of sorts. I am thinking about aircraft dropping leaflets into enemy territory or onto occupied lands during wartime, and guerilla radio stations. It is a sport somebody might be reluctant to engage in but that has been the case historically, broadcasting into occupied areas or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Work and Priorities of the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chief of Staff (21 Mar 2023)

James Lawless: ...numbers can be simplistic in terms of what the headcount should be. Where do the witnesses see the Forces target and what would be the distribution across the different arms of the Defence Forces, land air and sea and also across the new hybrid, cyber type threats I have mentioned? My late grand-uncle served in the Defence Forces in the Congo and elsewhere on some of the early UN...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2022)

James Lawless: ...of State's comments that this amendment probably concerns rural scenarios, but slips and falls in supermarkets constitute a real cost to business. Deputy Kenny mentioned people going onto lands looking for trouble rather than a rural idyll. They might even be looking for a fall thinking there might be a windfall at the far side of that depending on how they fall. My understanding is...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (9 Mar 2022)

James Lawless: ...Chamber about this recently, although I do not think it was reached in the end, in terms of how the Estimates see the 9,500 playing forward. Is it 10,000 or 10,500? Where does the figure of 9,500 land when the Estimates are factored in in terms of our total headcount in the PDF?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

James Lawless: ...and there is a lot of work to be done. It is a difficult matter a that will need careful scrutiny, not just following this session but right through the passage of the Bill, wherever it lands. I again thank everyone for this extremely important consideration. We will adjourn until Wednesday, 24 November, when we will meet for a stakeholder engagement on the topic of minorities...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Oct 2021)

James Lawless: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding land allocations for schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50184/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

James Lawless: ..., they are told that the law is "not really applicable yet". Will the Government ensure the Garda force has the resources, training, knowledge and wherewithal to enforce what is now the law of the land? It is a criminal law passed by the Oireachtas. We have done our job and the Government has done its job. If there are any gaps in terms of Garda enforcement, they must be addressed as a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (21 Apr 2021)

James Lawless: 1623. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for HSE owned land at Coille Dios estate, Athboy, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18482/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

James Lawless: ...here today. I will focus on the second point in the terms of reference that refers to "the appropriate balance and disposition of personnel and structures across a joint force approach in the land, air, maritime, cyber, intelligence and space domains". That brings it into my own area of interest, particularly the cyber domain. I see it as cybersecurity, telecommunications security and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Provision (10 Mar 2021)

James Lawless: 256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to a scheme encouraging farmers and other rural land owners to cultivate or otherwise encourage a section of road frontage on their lands for pedestrian use in order to facilitate safer passage of those walking or running in the countryside particularly in view of current restrictions; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Assets (10 Dec 2020)

James Lawless: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the conditions applicable to allow a local authority to complete the sale of its property and land for community gain or benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42589/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration Authority (1 Oct 2020)

James Lawless: 146. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the waiting times for the key functions of the Land Registry including the stamping of deeds, registering of conveyances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27765/20]

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jul 2020)

James Lawless: ...demands for that money. Then as now, it showed foresight. I hope that our foresight now will bear fruit if we follow through on it. I will trace all of that through to the creation of Science Foundation Ireland in 2001 or 2002. I pay tribute to the former Minister, Mary Harney, who was involved in that development. That began to move us from a graduate pipeline for multinationals...

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

James Lawless: ...approach of the Ugandan Government. There has been tremendous generosity of spirit, but also generosity of materials, capital and resources granted in that situation. People were given plots of land, the right to work, the right to vote and the right to integrate. They were given the right not just to live in a squat under a couple of metres of tent but actually to go and take a quarter...