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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...darás getting involved at this stage. Before the údarás Gaeltarra Éireann was involved in housing and the údarás has announced, with the backing of the Government, that it will look at using some of its lands to facilitate the provision of social and affordable housing in Gaeltacht areas. The údarás has announced three sites. It would be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is Údarás na Gaeltachta included in the list of public bodies contained in the Minister’s amendment? Údarás owns some other lands. That is-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is on its lands that it is putting the three pilots it has announced.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Data (20 Mar 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 138. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the originating airport that an aircraft (details supplied) took off from before its initial landing at Casement Aerodrome, County Dublin on 10 September 2004; and the time of this landing and any subsequent landings that day. [12645/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...employment in the Gaeltacht regions, now has a function in language planning. In fairness, it has extended its remit, by virtue of the fact that it was not precluded from doing so, to consider whether the land bank it had was usable for housing estates. It was mentioned that three sites were identified as a pilot project. Údarás na Gaeltachta is being encouraged by virtually...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...from Údarás na Gaeltachta in committee a number of times. In fairness, they recently announced that a pilot scheme is up and running and they are looking for expressions of interest for three plots of land to build housing in the Gaeltacht. Údarás na Gaeltachta was set up mainly to provide sites for factories, digital hubs and so on. The Gteic hubs are very welcome....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...it will build and run the housing developments as an approved housing body. That would have implications for other things. The HSE and the Department of Health could develop houses on their lands.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...is gone, it is gone. It is not coming back unless you have 1,000 or 2,000 years in which to start all over again. If a Gaeltacht area dies – there are ones under threat – it is near impossible to bring it back unless you do what was done as an experiment in the 1930s where a whole load of families were dragged out of Connemara and landed in the middle of Meath. As an...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: .... That is, in some ways, wrong. Part of the problem is that communities need to be engaged from a very early stage. Good planning applications should involve the community from very early on. A number of years ago, there was a plot of land where I live. Builders were asking how to deal with the community. We did not have a residents association so we set one up and there are now 20...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...was well hammered by the O'Neills in County Monaghan. It is an acknowledgement because it plays a role especially in a rural area. In a city it is buildings and so on. The Labour Party amendment refers to landscape in respect of battlefields. That can be interfered with in substantial ways by the modern construction of motorways, other roads or town development. In recent times it is...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...; “archaeological heritage” shall include structures, constructions, groups of buildings, developed sites, moveable objects, monuments of other kinds, as well as their context, whether situated on land or under water;”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 98: In page 41, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “Guidelines for Affected Owners of Land and Property 19.The Minister shall publish guidelines for owners of land and property where their land or property encompasses a prescribed or registered monument, or any part of a prescribed or registered monument, outlining their duties and obligations to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...protected structures. We have an anomaly that every five years the city and county development plans are put together. There are related maps and so on. Most people focus on the changes to zoning and what land is set aside for residential use and so on. However, the record of protected structures is part of that process. They are protected for a reason. Most would be regarded as...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 Jun 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 192. To ask the Minister for Finance if it was ever intended that the RZTL tax would lead to the closure of viable trading companies that happen to be based on lands zoned residential rather than zoned industrial; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30565/23]

National Archives Act 1986 (Section 1(2)(d)) Order 2023: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...means that we will reach that capacity quickly. This will especially be the case if some of the documentation I am suggesting should be transferred to the archives actually is transferred. One such set of materials are those held by the Land Commission. Its records date back as far as 1892. I am told there are 800 million records in its archive in Portlaoise. They are not available to...

Income Eligibility for Social Housing Supports: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...that I and Deputy Joan Collins represent, there are old Dublin City Council properties. They are concrete houses that are not going to fall down but they are not plush houses and do not have huge amounts of land. They are selling for €400,000. The people who grew up in those estates and were born in those houses cannot afford them. They are being forced outside the city and,...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...given out in this legislation. We know Dublin has suffered the consequences of bad planning. Even though we are in a housing crisis, we need to get it right for the next generation. Much land is zoned already that needs to be built on. I have never had a problem with high-rise or high-density buildings in certain areas. For instance, the area I represent has been zoned for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (8 Nov 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...parks but that is not enough for the scale of the development that has already happened and is continuing to happen in the area. Underutilised areas and dereliction are being addressed but that land is in private hands. The Minister of State made the point that Dublin City Council has land and this is one of the pockets of land that is right in the heart of the community and where these...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...rather it would be destroyed. Does anybody bar me find it obscene that those presiding on planning applications often have skin in the game? Some are definitely not independent. Some are developers and holders of development land. Given the scandals of the past in this city, in particular Wood Quay and Frascati House, we need to be very careful with who is on An Bord Pleanála. I...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (26 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 434. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussion that he has had with Iarnród Éireann in relation to the planed disposal of lands in the CIE works to facilitate an ambitious plan for a new town between Inchicore and Ballyfermot; and if he has encouraged CIE to proceed with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21037/22]