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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Properties (7 Feb 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a timeline for when the Government will conclude its consideration of sites recommended for transfer to the Land Development Agency; if he anticipates the former Cork Prison site to be included among these; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4993/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (17 Jan 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 414. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of IDA lands north of the Kilbarry Enterprise Centre in Cork, which were re-zoned for residential development in the most recent Cork City Development plan; whether the IDA agreed to transfer these lands to the Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56715/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (17 Jan 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 794. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of land purchased by the National Park and Wildlife Service for conservation purposes since 2020 to date. [1052/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Environmental Policy (22 Jun 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the measures Iarnród Éireann has in place to foster biodiversity along its routes and land banks; the funding provided for and actions that have been taken on biodiversity since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28432/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Jun 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: At recommendation 1.4 of Ireland's competitiveness challenge report, the NCPC recommends that the actions put forward by the Commission on Taxation and Welfare are addressed. In its reply, the Government has undertaken to consider changes in site value tax, or tax in general as it relates to land. Has the Taoiseach considered, or has there been significant consideration of, a site value...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...funds unless we step in. There might be good work to be done in regard to providing that kind of programme, whether it be short-term housing or some kind of outreach or top-up for investment on land they have available. Has anybody thought of that? Is that on the agenda for the Department or the HSE?

Joint Committee On Health: Life Cycle Approach to Mental Health: Discussion (18 Apr 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ..., they seem like an incredibly valuable framework. We have a very valuable system and other countries do not seem to have it. Many of them, though, are attached to the church and are therefore on land or in buildings that we do not necessarily have full, public ownership of. Often, honestly, the church has done a very good job in holding onto some of those services. How important are...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency: Discussion
Chapter 20: Management of the Clinical Indemnity Scheme of the Report on the Accounts of Public Services 2021 (2 Mar 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: What form does that advice take? Does the State Claims Agency issue the HSE circulars or briefing notes or how does that work? What formal document lands on the desk of the Minister when Mr. Breen says this lack of e-health records is an ongoing and recurrent risk?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I am not asking a very specific question; I am asking whether ultimately, when any decisions are being made around the ICF, which is a fairly major fund, that lands on the Minister's table? That is not a very detailed question; that is a basic principles question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...end of the stick in terms of the basic principles of who ultimately has agency in terms of saying there is €30 million? Actually, let us take out the details of it. Who ultimately does the fund land on when it comes to somebody's desk?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...for someone like me to follow that. In all of the conversations we have had about Owenacurra over the past year, I still do not know where the people who were moved out of the centre have landed. Even that level of basic detail is not available to people who are trying to scrutinise such decisions.

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...out the following parameters for its operation: to carry on the business of forestry and related activities on a commercial basis and in accordance with efficient silvicultural practices; to establish and carry on woodland industries; to participate with others in forestry and related activities consistent with its objects, designed to enhance the effective and profitable operation of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...they would interact with one another. In the course of our previous sessions and this meeting, we have discussed EU norms and what other countries are doing. It seems that, like every country, Ireland's tax system does better in some areas than in others and applies higher taxes here and lower ones there. The commission has recommended that we move more in line with EU norms in respect...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...come before us which may have some opinions on that. I am sure it will. We have talked a little bit about site value tax and inheritance tax. We have not talked too much today about agricultural land and rezoning more specifically. We talked about it last week and a little bit about the removal in 2014 of the windfall tax for rezoning. Do you have an opinion on it?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...on that. In some European countries they do a hybrid model but it is not the hybrid as described here, which is houses are one thing and everything else is the site value tax. Social Justice Ireland will know about it better than myself, but the hybrid version in the Netherlands or Denmark seems to be more a percentage basis on one site or one piece of land, with part of the payment...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...abroad. Here the local authorities really only have the local property tax, which is why we sometimes see ill-advised variations. The tax represents the only power, other than the disposal of land, that councillors now have.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay, but it will land in front of Deputies to vary the fund to allow that transfer to be made. Are there plans to vary it in any other way, like exceeding the cap more generally?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I absolutely agree. A point to note is that there is not a lot of discussion around the impact of land use on the plan, which is a major part of it. When much of this was agreed in the past few months, there was a suggestion the land use aspect would come about in the next 18 months. There definitely is a lack of information. We should, as a committee, be expecting a bit more detail.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: .... I have a concern around how we might treat the grounds and decide where 100 m begins, and how the service provider engages on the issue. Many of our older health service buildings are on land that looks almost institutional so they have gates and a carpark. So if we set this at the entrance then 100 m will still allow people to be directly outside a hospital, for example. That is the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (24 May 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 70. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria used by an immigration officer to determine if a non-European Economic Area national is granted leave to land and thus to gain entry to the State upon presentation at Dublin Airport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22637/22]