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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Patrick Costello: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of all second-level education institutions aided by her Department that are located on public land, and a separate list of all second-level institutions aided by her Department that are located on land not in public ownership. [13982/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (30 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update in relation to Ireland pushing for the EU to impose a travel ban and asset freeze on violent settlers; the reason for the difference between settlers, violent or non-violent, given that Dáil Éireann recognises Israeli settlements as the "de facto annexation" of Palestinian land; and if he will make a statement on...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...time it takes to happen. Before the current brutal phase of this long conflict, we saw the brutality of the occupation, with settlement building by Israel in contravention of international law, land confiscations, land closures and house demolitions. We have seen a military occupation that is brutalising and dehumanising to Palestinians. This has been going on since 1948 and 1967....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: 410. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way his Department applies the whole-of-government approach regarding Ireland's policy on differentiation between Israel and the illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land; the practical steps his Department takes in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48044/23]

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: ..., indiscriminate killing and arrest and imprisonment without trial. The list goes on and on. Every single time that Israel has reached an agreement with its neighbours or agreed to withdraw from land, it has done so in the face of strong pressure, typically strong international pressure. If we want to reinvigorate the peace process the Tánaiste talked about, we need to find...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (12 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way his Department applies the whole-of-Government approach regarding Ireland's policy on differentiation between Israel and the illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land; the practical steps his Department takes in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44620/23]

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Patrick Costello: .... This has proved positive but we seem to be doing the perennial thing in this country of piloting interventions instead of actually investing in them. If we want people to live in rural Ireland and be the thriving vibrant, lived-in Ireland that the policy talks about then we need to fund things such as the local community safety partnerships. We cannot rely on pilots; we need to roll...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Jun 2023)

Patrick Costello: 385. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct local authorities to delist light industrial manufacturing sites (details supplied) from the residential zoned land tax in a similar way to farmland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28058/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Renewable Energy Generation (18 Apr 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine on agriculture and the solar industry recommends that his Department conduct an appraisal as to the performance of the 50% limit on total land area used for the installation of solar panels limit with regard to CAT relief; if such a process has been undertaken; if so, the outcome; the reasoning behind the outcome of that process; and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: ...on record now as well. Let us hear about the work they do that they are proud of so we can take it away and, as I have said, argue that the funding cliff is closing in and we need to provide a safe landing. We should be able to say that we need to prevent that funding cliff and give reasons. It will help us in that advocacy.

Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (30 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: ...on de facto annexation earlier in the year, we spoke with a clear voice about the breaches of international law perpetrated by the Government of Israel. We also spoke about the settlement building, the land it takes and the de facto annexation it represents. Settlement building does not happen in a vacuum. It is closely linked to land confiscations, housing demolition, checkpoints,...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Patrick Costello: ...making life hard for those seeking homes to rent and to buy. This is an important measure and one the Green Party introduced when we were last in government to try to take the legs out from under land speculation. It was referred to in the Kenny report all those years ago and we finally implemented it. Unfortunately, it was removed in 2015 by the then Minister for Finance, Michael...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (24 Jun 2021)

Patrick Costello: ..., and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that apartments, like traditional houses, are homes for many persons and thus include them in the provisions relating to the land development authority Bill. [33866/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (5 May 2021)

Patrick Costello: 351. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the use his Department has for a plot of land (details supplied) between the Chapelizod Road and the River Liffey; and if his Department has considered granting the land to Dublin City Council for public use. [22816/21]

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2020)

Patrick Costello: ...name has been paused but de factoannexation continues. According to Peace Now, almost 5,000 settlement units were announced recently. The building of settlements, the confiscation of Palestinian land and the imposition of Israeli sovereignty on Palestine continue. This is de factoannexation even if it does not go by that name and we need to do more about it. I will speak about the...