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Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Johnny Guirke: ...just over a 100 days into the slaughter of the Palestinian people by Israel with the most sophisticated weapons in the world on an area half the size of County Louth, bombed relentlessly from the land, sea and air, and this is called a war. Some 25,000 people are confirmed dead, of whom almost 11,000 are children, 7,500 are women and almost 10,000 are missing, presumed dead under the...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2023)

Johnny Guirke: ...to prohibit future investments in any companies which operate in the illegal Israeli settlements and which are included on the UN database of companies. The intention is that the Bill will end Ireland's involvement in Israel's illegal enterprises and function as a catalyst for other European countries to follow. By taking the decision to invest Irish taxpayers' money into companies which...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Johnny Guirke: ...the Government only announced on 1 May the grants for older people and people with disabilities. That is a joke given that four months of the year have passed. On one-off planning in rural Ireland, rural areas are facing significant challenges, with depopulation, ageing infrastructure, local schools finding it hard to keep their numbers up and GAA, soccer and other sports clubs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Johnny Guirke: ...on top of a housing crisis if we do not get a much higher direct-build from the council. My first question is how do we go about getting that figure higher? Has Meath County Council identified land. I am aware that it has some land of its own but has it identified land to buy and in which areas of the county does it intend to mostly build from now until 2026? I agree with Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Budget 2022 (20 Oct 2021)

Johnny Guirke: 308. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there was no new support measures provided to farmers with land in areas of natural constraint in Budget 2022. [51453/21]

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Johnny Guirke: ...while two more have been granted planning permission and another is going through the planning process. These data centres will use the same amount of energy annually as almost 1 million homes. Ireland has started to import peat from other European countries to meet demand here while stopping people cutting turf for domestic use. A couple of weeks ago, a ship carrying 400,000 tonnes...

Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (20 May 2021)

Johnny Guirke: ...damaged or destroyed. Almost 100,000 Gazans have been forced to flee their homes. This is a massacre of the Palestinian people and a humanitarian crisis, all because Israel wants more Palestinian land. The leaders of the world have demonstrated inexcusable silence in the face of the slaughter of the Palestinian people, which is very sad. There are 2 million people penned into an...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2021)

Johnny Guirke: ...has not happened since 2006, taking into account set-back distances from people's homes, noise, and shadow flicker. If turbines must be 600 to 650 ft high to get the desired wind speed because of low-lying lands, are these areas really suitable for wind farms? We must also do more for offshore wind energy. Take into account turf cutting on Bord na Móna bogs over 30 ha. There is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wind Energy Generation (19 Nov 2020)

Johnny Guirke: ..., County Donegal, there was a large-scale bog slide recently that, as Deputy Pringle mentioned, polluted a salmon and trout river and a fish farm. This happened because of the disturbance of lands during the wind farm's construction. In south Galway, the State has incurred fines of €10.5 million, and rising, because of a massive landslide during a wind farm's construction. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wind Energy Generation (19 Nov 2020)

Johnny Guirke: .... I agree with him. If turbines need to be 180 m to 200 m tall, which is twice the height of the Spire in Dublin, to get the requisite wind speeds because of the low-lying nature of the lands in question, surely these areas are not right for such developments. The turbines in the Delvin, Raharney and Ballivor areas will be up to 150 ft taller than the ones in Donegal. I would like...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Gaeltacht Policy (13 Oct 2020)

Johnny Guirke: 140. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will direct that each application for planning permission affecting land in the Gaeltacht be accompanied by a linguistic impact assessment prepared by an independent expert in sociolinguistics, language planning or both that must objectively prove that the proposed development will increase the use of Irish relative to...

Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: An Dara Céim - Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (8 Oct 2020)

Johnny Guirke: ...Baile Ghib. People were relocated to those areas from the western seaboard between 1935 and 1937, leaving their humble abodes to head to county Meath under a resettlement scheme undertaken by the Irish Land Commission. Like every other Gaeltacht, the very survival of those areas is threatened because of a lack of investment in local jobs, education and the protections that would have...