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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (2 May 2024)

Peter Burke: Regional development is a key element of Government's enterprise policy, as set out in the White Paper on Enterprise and is a key focus of the work of my Department. In that regard, IDA Ireland is committed to the pursuit of balanced, compact regional development and is targeting that at least half of all investments - that is 400 of 800 - from 2021 to 2024 to regional locations. IDA has...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: IDA Ireland’s Regional Property Programme is aimed at supporting economic development and job creation across the country by making property solutions available to its own as well as Enterprise Ireland and LEO clients. In this regard, the provision of property solutions is a key element of IDA’s marketing of the Midlands Region, including Longford and the IDA has committed to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: ...at the forefront of a modern economy remains essential to winning Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). In this context, the IDA Regional Property Programme has been designed to ensure the supply of land, buildings and essential infrastructure in regional locations as required by current and prospective clients of IDA as well as those of Enterprise Ireland and the Local Enterprise Offices. ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: ..." in 2024 with the remainder in the planning and site selection stages. Moreover, the IDA has made considerable property investments in Kerry under this strategy, including the acquisition of over 16 hectares of lands at Kerry Technology Park. As the Deputy is aware, Kerry Technology Park already is home to internationally recognised companies such as JRI America and Astellas, who, in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (16 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: ...'s enterprise policy, as set out in the White Paper on Enterprise, and is the focus of my Department's work on developing and implementing Regional Enterprise Plans. In this regard, IDA Ireland is committed to the pursuit of balanced, compact regional development and is targeting that at least half of all investments - that is 400 of 800 - from 2021 to 2024 are landed for regional...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (10 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: ...Government's enterprise policy, as set out in the White Paper on Enterprise and is the key focus of my Department's work on developing and implementing Regional Enterprise Plans. Moreover, IDA Ireland is also committed to the pursuit of balanced, compact regional development and is targeting that at least half of all investments - that is 400 of 800 - from 2021 to 2024 to regional...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Foreign Direct Investment (9 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: IDA’s regional property programme ensures the continued supply of land, buildings and infrastructure in regional locations to meet the needs of current and prospective clients of IDA, Enterprise Ireland and the Local Enterprise Offices. The timely provision of appropriate, cost-effective property and infrastructure solutions to meet the needs of Multi-National Companies (MNCs) remains...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Historical Artefacts (20 Mar 2024)

Peter Burke: ...helped to bring together the leading republican leaders and the lrish Parliamentary Party leader, Charles Stuart Parnell. who was an MP from 1846 to 1891. The result was that the Irish National Land League which campaigned successfully in the 1880s and 1890s for the rights of Irish Catholic tenant farmers. Following the Irish War of Independence, Devoy supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: ..., which is currently ongoing. Uisce Éireann cannot provide permanent storage until the ground water investigations have been completed and a new site chosen. Providing temporary storage is challenging as it may require land purchase and planning permission. However, Uisce Éireann is investigating to see if an alternative temporary solution is available.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: ...Food and the Marine announced funding of €800,000 to assist farmers who have been affected by fodder loss in the Shannon Callows special area of conservation, SAC. While it was necessary for the lands flooded to be within this SAC to be eligible, whether lands were designated as an area of natural constraint, ANC, or not has not been taken into account in the scheme. The...

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Consideration of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments (21 Nov 2023)

Peter Burke: ...has changed through political intervention and work to ensure it is a sustainable proposal and does not in any way pressure farmers up and down this country in terms of a mandatory call to re-wet land. It will now have a more encouraging role, where a state can play a bigger part on its own land. The point I am trying to make is that, essentially, this is a very early-stage proposal from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Peter Burke: ...we are with all our citizens in the region whom we have advised to check in with the embassy. Regarding the attack on the Supernova festival, hundreds of children were present there on very flat land with no buildings or shelter. We have seen the horrific circumstances that occurred. We have to work hard now and call for a de-escalation. We are very clear about the right of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Peter Burke: ...concert, where there were so many innocent civilians. That is who there will be there. There will be families enjoying their day in an area which had no cover and no buildings. It is very flat land, as I said earlier. We have seen the horrific circumstances that unfolded and the very distressing images from that-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (11 May 2023)

Peter Burke: .... For the Saolta group, geography is a major challenge, as the population is dispersed and mostly rural, with approximately one sixth of the national population spread across one third of the land area of the State. To address these issues, in addition to the waiting list action plan funding, significant increases in budgets have been allocated to hospitals in the group, including an...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (11 May 2023)

Peter Burke: .... There are currently 167 primary care centres in operation throughout the country, with a further 13 under construction. The Finglas primary care centre will be located on a block of land between Cappagh Road, Cardiffsbridge Road, Wellmount Avenue and Fergal’s Lane. These lands offer an opportunity to provide and enhance facilities for the local community in Finglas. The...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Peter Burke: The proposed measure to temporarily disapply the Part 8 planning approval process to facilitate the accelerated delivery of housing supply is subject to the satisfaction of several conditions: the land is owned by the local authority or another State body; the land is zoned for residential development; the proposed development does not materially convene the development plan or local area...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Local Authorities (8 Dec 2022)

Peter Burke: Further to work commissioned by the Housing and Planning Divisions of my Department, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) published a report into structural housing demand in Ireland to 2040, in December 2020. The ESRI research report “Regional Demographics and Structural Housing Demand at County Level” projected an annual new household demand figure for each county...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (8 Dec 2022)

Peter Burke: ...built environment practitioners, professional bodies and the public sector. The group, via a series of three workshops in June, August and September 2022 discussed key issues in relation to density and viability, land use and transportation and place-making and quality design. This also included discussions related to the design and application of compact ‘own door’ housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (29 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: ...the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act) provide for the creation of rights of way by planning authorities where it appears that there is need for a public right of way over any land. The laws regarding public use of land for walkers does not fall under the Act and therefore does not fall under the scope of the Review of Planning Legislation currently being undertaken by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (29 Nov 2022)

Peter Burke: ...authority. Section 207 (compulsory powers for creation of public right of way) provides that if it appears to a planning authority that there is need for a public right of way over any land, the planning authority may, by resolution, make an order creating a public right of way over the land. In such case, the planning authority is required to serve notice in this regard on the owner...