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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (20 Mar 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the US Air Force Gulfstream 5 executive jet number 99-0402 was permitted to fly and through Irish air space and land and refuel in Shannon Airport on 3 March 2024 on its way to Frankfurt (callsign SAM265) and from there to Cyprus and then Tel Aviv Israel on 4 March 2024; if he has concerns that this may breach Irish neutrality, given...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Mairead Farrell: ...change, this could really be of benefit be it within our healthcare system, building manufacturing and all that kind of thing. There is also the likes of the public registries such as the CRO and the Land Registry where we could look at modernising those databases. That could be something we could look at so they could be more user-friendly, transparent and freely available. That is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Mairead Farrell: ...impact in the regions and will further our balanced regional development agenda. Refurbishment of vacant commercial property will also be considered in addition to repurposing vacant properties on HEI land. The reason I am interested in that is that I have contacted many of the universities. Not all of them have come back to me but many of the universities, after that announcement had...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (20 Feb 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the new practice with the land registry whereby if a change of deeds form is submitted incorrectly, when the form is returned to the solicitor the section which requires correcting is no longer identified, and thus slows down the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7484/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (13 Feb 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 136. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a US Navy Hercules KC130T aircraft was allowed to land and refuel at Shannon Airport on two occasions recently (details supplied); the reason this aircraft was allowed to land and refuel at Shannon Airport in breach of international laws on neutrality; and if steps were taken to ensure that this aircraft was not transporting...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Properties (12 Dec 2023)

Mairead Farrell: 374. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the level of land bank that Údarás na Gaeltachta has that is suitable for housing broken down, by county and by size; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55103/23]

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Mairead Farrell: When will the west wake up and realise that Israel is an apartheid state and has to be treated as such? How much more Palestinian land will be colonised? How much longer can international law continue to be violated and how many more Palestinians will be murdered? I recognise that the Government is a strong supporter of Palestinian people, but it is time we did far more. It is time we...

Education Costs: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2023)

Mairead Farrell: ...such as contribution charges or any other charges that limit their possibilities to access third level education or their ability to access whatever career path they want to take. They call it the land of saints and scholars. It should not be a situation where scholars can only be scholars if they have the money to do so. It should be a situation where anybody who wants to access a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Mairead Farrell: There has been a lot of commentary over the past week about the sale of land in Patrickswell, County Limerick. It has been reported that in December 2006 a solicitor acting on behalf of the wife of the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, wrote to the council seeking to purchase the land and that then, the following month, councillors, including Deputy Collins, voted to allow the council...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Mairead Farrell: ...in Galway. There are places in Galway where it is badly needed, not only as a revenue raiser - obviously, that can be important as well - but also as a way to change behaviour when it comes to land banking and speculation. Is there any good data on how prevalent that land banking and land speculation is? How much would such a tax bring in? What impact would it have on easing the price...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (23 Feb 2023)

Mairead Farrell: ...Affairs and Trade his views on the prospects for a two state solution given the new Israeli Governments' stated position that Jews alone have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the land of Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9419/23]

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Mairead Farrell: ...or underwriting investments for vulture funds at the expense of family farm incomes or viability. There are also legitimate concerns that investment by such vulture funds will inflate the cost of land, as it has done in other sectors like housing. Local farmers in rural communities could be priced out, just as many renters have been priced out of living in the areas in which they grew...

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...plan. This is to try to address our infrastructural crisis. The IMF, OECD and EU have all pointed out the weakness of our public infrastructure vis-à-vis our EU peers. They have pointed out that it is harming Ireland's competitiveness. It is also creating terrible socioeconomic problems, particularly in housing. Of course, none of this will be new to the Minister. Earlier we...

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

Mairead Farrell: ...statement to keep myself in check because there were so many. In that statement, it was noted that the commission has set out that a site value tax could also accommodate the principle of a zoned land tax. That is very important. I am interested in hearing the witnesses' views on that. We have all seen evidence of swathes of land that have been zoned, sometimes for years, on which...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (25 Oct 2022)

Mairead Farrell: 155. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide the full list of sites theIDA holds in its land bank; the locations of these sites; their size in hectares and current zoned status in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52988/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 Oct 2022)

Mairead Farrell: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the proposed development of affordable housing by the Land Development Agency, Sandy Road, Galway; if the land is owned by the Land Development Agency; the level of funding that has been committed to the Land Development Agency to enable the project to proceed; when the planning permission will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 Oct 2022)

Mairead Farrell: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the proposed development of affordable housing by the Land Development Agency, Dyke Road, Galway; if the land is owned by the Land Development Agency; the level of funding that has been committed to the Land Development Agency to enable the project to proceed; when the planning permission will be sought...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...General’s worrying conclusion was that the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group had "pledged publicly-funded assets in return for bank finance for the development of its private hospital". In other words, the land on which we are going to build this hospital has been used as collateral for other transactions. It was used as collateral to raise debt and for the development of St....

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...inappropriate. In fact, she later discovered that her medical team could not mention the possible need of a hysterectomy with her at that point due to that ethos. That was despite her uterus slowly perforating. Eventually she had to travel to England for this operation. Another Irish woman forced to cross the sea to seek the medical services denied to her in her own State. We must...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...which is a long time ago. It was before this State had joined the EU and at a time when Eamon de Valera was the President. It should go without saying therefore, that, the Salhieh's claim to this land goes way back, and yet an Israeli court has just ruled against the family being allowed to remain in their home. On Wednesday, Israeli police raided the Salhieh home, forcibly removed the...