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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will issue a compulsory purchase order for the lands at Castletown House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20541/24]

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...representative association membership. It is my experience that this Government has defined itself by never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity. The evidence is all there, be it in housing, health or the mother and baby homes, not to mention the case in my constituency of buying the land at Castletown House. This Bill adds defence to that by making discussion of this Bill,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (9 Apr 2024)

Réada Cronin: 337. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether he is satisfied that the organisation is moving with all necessary alacrity on the unification of the lands at Castletown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13880/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (29 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: 50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason and how the State acted with such alacrity on the purchase of a property at Dowth, while still delaying on the purchase of lands at Castletown to the degree the current owner has withdrawn their proposal to sell, due to lack of appropriate engagement; and if he will publish the timeline of the transaction regarding Dowth in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (29 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: 51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the State acquisition of the lands at Castletown; the timeline of each and all engagements by the OPW with the current owner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52689/23]

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy Report: Statements (22 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...security policy as unnecessarily political and narrow. I attended the four days of the forum and contributed to each of the sessions. We made clear in our submission our vision and ambition for Ireland as a neutral and independent state, playing a key role in peacemaking, peacekeeping and humanitarianism. Within that, we outlined our belief that our neutrality should be enshrined in our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: What strategies does the UN have and what can it do to sound alarm bells about such need? Spain and Italy experienced drought this year while Ireland had the opposite problem of too much water. The area of land where we can grow food is getting smaller as deserts encroach.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: I ask the Tánaiste to get involved with the Office of Public Works, OPW, in the context of its actions in relation to the acquisition of lands at Castletown House in Celbridge. The community of north Kildare has rallied behind the acquisition of the lands and is dismayed at how it is being publicly pilloried by the OPW. That office needs to focus on engaging professionally and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: I get that. There is also an intergenerational trauma that Israel no doubt feels because of the Holocaust. Ireland should be ready to play a bigger role in trying to find peace. We can talk about Hamas using human shields. Israel also uses human shields when it grabs land, Palestinians are displaced, and people of the Jewish faith are moved onto those lands. What are they only human...

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

Réada Cronin: ...amendments Nos. 35 and 36. I commend my colleague on the wording because it echoes back to the words of the Proclamation in the hall outside about the right of the people to the ownership of Ireland. I will speak about two issues in my constituency, Kildare North, involving two key heritage sites, one of which is Connolly's Folly. I am raising this issue as I was once a councillor on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (26 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to publish all the documentation relating to contacts between his Department, the Departments of Finance and the owners past and present in the matter of lands at Castletown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40963/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (26 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: 198. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will sanction the acquisition of the lands around Castletown House for the public and in the public interest, given these lands are not simply an amenity but regarded by the wider community as a cultural, social and environmental inheritance that is to be held in trust for future generations; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (26 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: 201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will liaise with his counterparts in OPW, Arts, Finance and Public Expenditure to secure the lands adjoining Castletown House for the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41226/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (26 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will liaise with his counterparts in OPW, Finance and Heritage to secure for the public, the cultural inheritance that are the Castletown Lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41227/23]

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...how many people raise it with me when knocking on doors and meeting people, especially the need to protect and preserve it in this current and deepening climate crisis. He can imagine their concern at Ireland being reprimanded last week by the Court of Justice of the European Union for being in breach of the habitats directive. Our situation is as far as it is possible to be from our...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department or its agencies have provided any advice on how to deliver classrooms for a school (details supplied) without the need for additional land, given the school is citing the need for additional land to build special needs classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29892/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can confirm that no building can proceed on land zoned as amenity and the provision of such zoned land will not allow the immediate provision of special needs classes at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29893/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: 278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that the proposed development of the lands immediately surrounding Castletown House will not impact negatively on the structure and its historical, aesthetic, architectural and cultural integrity; if he will publish the expert basis for that satisfaction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29679/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: 279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the State did not purchase the lands adjoining Castletown House; if the purchase was ever a consideration; if so, the reason it was not concluded by and for the State; if he will publish the reasons for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29680/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: 280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the State has conducted an environmental and wildlife assessment of development of the lands adjoining Castletown House; if so, if he will publish the results of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29681/23]