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Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: ...as mentioned by my colleague, Senator Moynihan. I have raised this issue with the Minister for sport. Local authorities have a huge role to play in the provision of sporting facilities, playing fields, etc. Due to the cost of land, local authorities and Government need to get involved and provide that. Many towns and villages lack sporting facilities. I want to mention the youth...

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Mark Wall: ...pressure. Thankfully, Kildare County Council has looked at this. While I was on that local authority, I argued for this over many years. We now have 13.5 acres available in Athy for sports. That land will be available once we get the funding, and that is the most important thing. That should be replicated throughout the country. A pilot scheme is needed in relation to this. Athy...

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Mark Wall: ...using other sports facilities but that is not always available in relation to the Labour Party policy we are proposing. The local authority-led social enterprise idea that is much replicated in the UK could work in Ireland. The Minister of State knows the costs of land and building. I think the situation is now coming and that is why I am asking for a full rethink on sports funding in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2023)

Mark Wall: ...that I have raised previously, that of playing facilities. Yesterday one of my local GAA clubs was forced to go to a vulture fund auction to try to get a second pitch. The club, Castledermot GAA club, is landlocked but unfortunately it lost out to a phone bid. The club is confined, landlocked, with 29 teams playing on one piece of land. This is happening right around the country at the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2023)

Mark Wall: ...yesterday, facilities for sports clubs. We mentioned GAA clubs yesterday. It is an issue I have brought up in the House previously. There is an urgent need for local authorities to identify land in every town plan throughout the country in respect of sports facilities. More and more sports clubs are coming to the maximum amount of usage of their current facilities. It is my belief...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Mark Wall: One of the biggest issues that comes up when I talk to Kildare County Council in particular, is availability of land for social housing development. What are the plans to make land available to support local authorities in purchasing land? Much of the land they have at the moment is simply not suitable for housing development.

Seanad: National Forestry Fund: Motion (8 Feb 2023)

Mark Wall: ...that a new approach must be taken in respect of forestry. This country is nowhere near meeting its targets, and is unlikely to meet them by bringing in foreign investors to buy up Irish land. It is not a solution we can support. In a recent debate on forestry in the Dáil at which the Minister of State was present, my colleagues, Deputies Kelly and Sherlock, stated that the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)

Mark Wall: ...to so many people over the last number of weeks, the simple fact is that our roadsides are dumping grounds, and this problem is as bad as I and many other people have ever seen it.Every road, woodland, street and country area seems to be considered a dumping ground for those who have no consideration for the people living there. It is unsightly. This problem is worse than I have ever...

Seanad: Ireland's Military Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Mark Wall: ...investment in the Defence Forces and the level of ambition, LOA, 2 outlined in the commission report, which we said we supported and continue to support. The motion proposes properly funding Ireland's Army, Air Corps, Naval Service and cyber capabilities in order to protect our neutral status and secure our land, sea, maritime, cyber, and air domains. It is an ambition the Labour Party...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Mark Wall: ...occasions. Is the council getting the support from the Department to have the staff necessary for affordable housing and its delivery? The witnesses might comment on that. Then there is the land needed to build houses, which is the road we should go down. Has Kildare County Council identified such land? Again, is it getting the support to purchase such land? Most important to me,...

Seanad: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Mark Wall: ...much talk or chat about our neutrality since the report was published. The Minister mentioned this in his introduction. The issue has featured even more since the legal invasion of the sovereign lands of Ukraine by Russia. Being militarily neutral should not be confused with military impotence. I agree with my colleague Deputy Howlin, who, in a similar debate on this report, in...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Nov 2021)

Mark Wall: ...attempts to deal with that. We all want something good to come out of this and to ensure that planning comes back to where we all want to be. We have tabled this amendment because we do not want land held on an extended basis.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Mark Wall: ...State from that point of view. I join him in that call. Some headlines from what he said refer to the fact that NAMA has €1.2 billion in funding reserves and 577 ha of residential development land. NAMA is currently selling 400 homes across the country. Professor Hearne stated NAMA could be directed to provide 4,000 cost rental and 4,000 affordable homes a year. Given the...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Second Stage (29 Sep 2021)

Mark Wall: ...of the legal provisions designed to combat trafficking or people smuggling on a national legislative footing. Ruhama has worked with service users based in every county in the Republic of Ireland. It also provides training for front-line workers and those in law enforcement centred on knowing the signs of human trafficking and identifying individuals who are potential victims of human...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2021)

Mark Wall: ...she mentioned speaking with the Garda Commissioner and used the word "discretion". A Garda representative stated, rightly, on the programme to which I was listening that gardaí deal with the law of the land and that they need clarity on what discretion means in this context. We are told that there will be a memo going out today from the Garda Commissioner. We all know the terrible...

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Second Stage (31 May 2021)

Mark Wall: ..., the Minister of State might confirm the current status of Rockall in respect of Irish fisheries and whether they are able to use and indeed fish off that area. The article also noted that "Almost half a billion euro worth of fish is landed each year from the Irish zone, with Ireland taking 42 per cent of this by weight." As has already been stated in this debate, the Irish fishing...

Seanad: Search and Rescue System: Motion (28 May 2021)

Mark Wall: ...this Private Members' motion. It is very important that it is discussed. I thank Senator Craughwell in particular for his work on this issue to date. As a number of speakers have said, Ireland's SAR system is derived from the Government's adherence to a number of international conventions and guidance manuals. In brief, these conventions impose obligations on Ireland to ensure that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Enrolments (25 May 2021)

Mark Wall: ...around what is happening with the proposed new 1,000 pupil school for the Curragh which we were told would include joint Educate Together patronage. Recent updates on this school tell us that the land deal is still at a sensitive stage. Perhaps the House can be given an update on that today. I hope the Minister of State will give us some good news here today. I have been contacted by...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2021)

Mark Wall: ...the Minister the urgent need to include and involve other agencies in this process and this crisis. This was raised with him in the last debate here on this Bill. I am aware of local authority land in many locations in my county where there are deficits in infrastructure. There is publicly owned land in Nurney, County Kildare, which is sitting idle in an area where there is urgent need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Mark Wall: I wish to be associated with the remarks of the previous two speakers in welcoming representatives of both The Wheel and Community Gardens Ireland. I thank them very much for their presentations. I wish to be associated with the words of Deputy Carey on what community and voluntary organisations have done for us all during the pandemic. I am always struck by the volunteerism of so many...