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Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...to the ongoing work of the committee, including most recently on Thursday, 25 April, when the committee undertook a travel episode to Cork Harbour to examine the potential of offshore wind. Ireland remains committed to achieving our ambitious target of having 80% of our electricity generated from renewable resources by 2030, with 5 GW coming from offshore wind. Offshore and renewable...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...of the regeneration programmes. (12) The Mayoral role shall, subject to section 213 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, incorporate executive functions from the Chief Executive the realms of land acquisition, with all purchases being subject to ratification by Limerick City and County Council.”. This amendment seeks additional powers for the mayor. Again, we discussed...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...to be a vital new source of revenue and energy for our market. Its development is our chance to become energy independent eventually. We can harness energy and export the excess energy that Ireland will not need, or we can import it from abroad. This is the choice the country has to make. As an island we are extremely fortunate to have an abundance of natural resources, including our...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...of the regeneration programmes. (12) The Mayoral role shall, subject to section 213 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, incorporate executive functions from the Chief Executive the realms of land acquisition, with all purchases being subject to the ratification of Limerick City and County Council.". This amendment proposes that the mayor have a role in the introduction of the...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Sep 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...the Bill. We want Limerick to be the reference point for other areas throughout the State where the establishment of a directly elected mayor is a feasible possibility. For instance, the power to acquire land is absent from the proposed powers. This would be an important function to give the mayor real power. Additionally, there is nothing to show the mayor as an advocate for workers'...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...is that there are 160 children currently languishing in Israeli prisons. There is a litany of oppression. There is a history of violence. There is a history of plantation on the occupied lands. We remember journalist Ms Shireen Abu Akleh deliberately murdered last May be an Israeli sniper. We remember at least 160 Palestinians killed so far this year by the occupying power. The...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (2 Mar 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...if he will report on the reference within the Shannon Foynes Port Company Vision 2041 master plan to the need, over the lifetime of the plan, to acquire an additional 127 ha of port development land; if he will discuss what planning has taken place with Shannon Foynes Port Company on acquiring this land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9949/23]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...as a new authority in its first year, does the Minister consider that this funding is sufficient for the authority to carry out its work? I have other questions, one of which is in respect of InterTradeIreland, the cross-Border body set up under the Good Friday Agreement to promote trade, North and South, where there is no increase in its budget. Did it not look for an increase or was...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...their homes and homeland. Others, who could never have imagined doing so, have joined the military to defend their homeland. A huge number of Ukrainians have fled their homes and many have landed in Ireland in the intervening eight months. I want to put on the record that they are very welcome. Unfortunately, some have tried to pit our people against these refugees and have implied...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...heading of projected social housing delivery, a target of providing 2,693 homes by 2026 is given. The council states this is a build target only. Where are we going to build those houses? What lands do we have to build them on? I was not aware we had enough land to build on. Dr. Daly mentioned the LDA on which I have a specific question. I do not expect the officials from Limerick to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: I understand that. It is no problem. Returning to the land issue, I have a concern we will not deliver the numbers we need in the time envisaged. I ask Dr. Daly to clarify what he said about how many hectares we have in the city.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...the M7 motorway. We have built the Coonagh-Knockalisheen road. It is almost completed. That is critical infrastructure. This part of the northern distributor road has freed up an awful lot of land in close proximity to Shannon Airport. Does Mr. Shanahan consider the next bit of the northern distributor road to be critical infrastructure in delivering jobs in the region?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (3 Jun 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: 285. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the land and property within the remit of his Department that was sold between 1998 and 2015; the purchaser and site location of same in tabular from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30345/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (3 Jun 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: 286. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the land and property within the remit of his Department that was purchased between 1998 and 2015; the seller and site location of same in tabular from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30346/21]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...The Government must deliver at least 8,000 affordable houses each year and 4,000 affordable purchase houses each year. A first step to demonstrate that this is not the case is to stop the sale and gifting of public lands to private developers and to use this land to build public homes like the type I grew up in. I fear however that the current Minister is not up to the task. He has...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Feb 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...urge them, too, to reject it. The provisions regarding the LDA and the designated activity companies, as outlined in the Bill, are a bad idea. The professed objective of the LDA is to drive strategic land assets and use public lands to build affordable homes. My fear is that the enactment of this Bill will have the opposite effect when it comes to constructing affordable homes. The aim...

Covid-19 (Drug and Alcohol Services, and Homelessness): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...over and, worse still, seem to operate with impunity. These drug dealers ignore planning regulations regularly, building unauthorised structures that need to be removed but which remain in situ, with public land grabbed and retained which needs to be reclaimed, and walls built in total disregard of planning regulations. As we speak, a structure is being constructed for which there is no...

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...to a living complex for young professionals or the wing of a prison. There was no need for a review. There was a need for a ban on this type of living arrangement. These developments push up the price of land. They are expensive and one would only be provided with a private living space the size of a car park space. Yesterday, the Government moved to level 5 restrictions to cope with...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...city. I am delighted to say the personnel based there contribute enormously and favourably to the vibrancy of my home city. Members of the Defence Forces have represented the people of Ireland with distinction whenever and wherever they have served abroad. They are respected by members of other armed forces and have made a courageous contribution to all their missions. One needs...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Data (8 May 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: 563. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the land and property acquired by IDA Ireland in 2017 and 2018; the price paid for the land and property, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19071/19]