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Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Joe O'Brien: ...a new life in a new country with all the hardship that entails. Since January 2022, the Department has brought over 200 additional properties into use to accommodate those who arrive in Ireland seeking international protection. I wish to pay credit to the Department's officials. They are invisible and they are criticised quite a lot but they are working constantly to try to bring...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Michael Lowry: Another issue is the shambolic management of Ireland's forestry policy, which has led to farmers losing complete confidence in the forestry sector. That is compounded by the refusal of the Department to provide appropriate recompense for farmers impacted by ash dieback. The total amount of land planted for forestry in 2023 was 1,650 ha. That corresponds with the lowest volume in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Licences (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...Department have no plans to change the rules in relation to driver licensing for tractors. The current licence category, W, will continue to be the licence category that covers work vehicles and land tractors. Agricultural vehicles are any power-driven vehicles running on wheels or tracks, having at least two axles, the principal function of which lies in their tractive power, which are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (21 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Thomas Gould: ...is currently available to patrol our 1 million sq. km exclusive economic zone. The newspaper also stated that a lack of expertise delayed the use of two smaller vessels, which arrived from New Zealand last May. These are unlikely to become operational until the winter, at the earliest. These two vessels cost €26 million. A decade ago, we had eight Naval Service ships patrolling...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Recycling Policy (21 Mar 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...environment, reduce litter and waste and play a key role as a circular economy initiative. This is all very laudable. However, one additional result of this scheme, as currently configured, is to land those with disabilities with an unfair and regressive additional tax. I cannot for the life of me understand how this Government could have gone ahead with such a scheme without giving...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the question. The Irish Defence and Security Association, IDSA, was established in 2021 with a mission "to ensure Ireland develops appropriate, leading-edge and trusted defence and security capabilities in the land, sea, air, space and cyber domains, in order to protect our society, create jobs, drive research and enhance Ireland’s economic growth"....

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Pat Buckley: .... I always felt in that committee that the local authority was the one that seemed to be restrained by what it could provide. Some of the Traveller families wanted to be on a site but also needed land for the horses and so on. Cork County Council progressed that project a number of years ago and fair play to it. I listened to what the Deputy said as well. I can understand the local...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (21 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Pat Buckley: .... It should be borne in mind that this is taxpayers' money. I have it on the record, as I have said previously, that the individual in question admitted at the housing committee that Waterways Ireland is responsible for any unauthorised development. Despite this, the county councils keep coming back with references to Part 8 planning. You cannot involve a county council in a planning...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

...that large member states might be tempted to move in that direction because the European medicine supply lines are dynamic and need to flow to operate effectively. We will support wherever Europe lands in respect of buffering, but we will try to encourage a recognition of our interdependence within the global arena and the importance of the flow of medicines. We have arrangements...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024) See 12 other results from this debate

Kieran O'Donnell: Amendments Nos. 359 and 363, tabled by Deputy Matthews, the Chair, concern the requirement that a housing strategy must include, in relation to specified settlement sizes, an estimate of the land to be zoned for residential or mixed uses to accommodate the population and housing growth targets and ensure there is sufficient land zoned having regard to existing capacity and planned investment...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...environment in which the Defence Forces operate and the corresponding need for appropriate infrastructure to provide for accommodation and training of personnel, maintenance and storage of equipment for land, sea and airborne operational requirements. The required infrastructure, as one would expect, ranges from single living in accommodation, to training and messing facilitates up to...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Brendan Smith: 50. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if further consideration will be given to the re-opening of Dún Uí Néill Barracks, Cavan, as a forward operating base as that region has a long land border with a neighbouring jurisdiction, and taking into account that in the past the presence locally of Army personnel played a very important role in the security of this State;...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...in which the Defence Forces operate and the corresponding need for appropriate infrastructure to provide for accommodation and training of personnel, maintenance and storage of equipment for land, sea and airborne operational requirements. The following capital works in the DFTC, (Curragh Camp, Kildare) are completed or nearing completion : Cadet School Engineers Logistics Office...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...the Defence Forces operate and the corresponding need for appropriate infrastructure to provide for accommodation and training of personnel, as well as the maintenance and storage of equipment for land, sea and airborne operational requirements. In regards to the Naval Base at Haulbowline, Co Cork, the following capital works are completed or ongoing: Refurbishment of FORST Building;...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...in the city over the short, medium and longer term. This type of approach is exactly the type of long-term planning needed to ensure good transport infrastructure delivery and integration with land-use planning.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...system. Electricity storage systems increase the volume of renewable electricity on the grid as well as providing grid efficiency functions. Electricity storage systems in this way support Ireland’s legally binding greenhouse gas emissions reductions, as set out in the latest iteration of the Climate Action Plan. My Department is developing an electricity storage policy...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...the Defence Forces operate and the corresponding need for appropriate infrastructure to provide for accommodation and training of personnel, as well as maintenance and storage of equipment for land, sea and airborne operational requirements. The Deputy may wish to note that there are currently over €147m worth of IDP projects underway at different stages of development, from...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Griffin: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance if actively farmed farmland will be exempted from the residential zoned land tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13509/24]