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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (16 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...to livestock farmers most severely affected by the prolonged exceptional weather conditions and I have paused all non-essential farm inspections. In relation to allowing farmers graze SAC land, there is generally no restriction in grazing SAC land but severe poaching of land is prohibited under Conditionality and farmers need to be mindful of this in the current poor ground conditions....

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (16 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...€220,000 through my Department's Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme since 2016. I was also pleased to include this trail in my Department's Walks Scheme which provides funding to the local landowners for maintaining sections of the trail that traverse their land. I understand that 46 landowners on this trail are participating in this scheme. Furthermore, on Saturday last, I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Cian O'Callaghan: ...been clogging up the system and drawing down resources. It is deeply unfair on the planning system to be dealing with speculative applications by someone with the intention of increasing the value of their land with a planning permission but who does not have an intention to build out. They are not bearing the full cost of that in planning fees and that is an issue. Has public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...me as a receiver to manage the property - it might be to manage it with a view to preserving its value - or, more often than not, it will be to take possession of the property. That could be land and buildings or a residential property but it could be a Ferrari as well. Generally, it is to sell that property and to hold onto the net proceeds of that sale, pending the final order, which is...

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: ..., heart disease and much more on a daily basis just going to work. I clearly remember the day in December 2002 when a scientific review entitled Report on the Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke in the Workplace landed on my desk. The report was unequivocal in its findings that passive smoking causes cancer. That underlined the importance of evidence-based research. A peer...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Robert Troy: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will support the establishment of a consultation forum for the future development of Columb Barracks, Mullingar by the Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15700/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Pearse Doherty: The Minister is living in cloud-cuckoo-land.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...of local authorities to show ambition. As I said, Housing for All is underpinned by record State funding. The local authorities, through their housing strategies, must ensure serviced land is available and that they are meeting the infrastructural requirements and meeting the demand that is there for all tenure types. Schemes like Croí Cónaithe are delivering, particularly...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Malcolm Noonan: ...for the provision of housing for the existing and future population of their area. Section 95 of the 2000 Act further requires: ... a planning authority shall ensure that sufficient and suitable land is zoned for residential use, or for a mixture of residential and other uses, to meet the requirements of the housing strategy and to ensure that a scarcity of such land does not occur at...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vacant Properties (11 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Joe O'Brien: ...if they have a need for the property in question. Once it is confirmed the property is surplus to requirements, the following process applies. Such properties are initially offered to the Land Development Agency, LDA, and, thereafter, to other State entities listed on the State property register. Finally, if there is no interest expressed by other State entities, the property is placed...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Erin McGreehan: ...are all down because of the amount of rain we are having. It is all right for us because we can use an umbrella or decide not to go out but farmers are caught. I have never seen a time when so much land was unpassable. Sheep can hardly walk on a field without poaching it. I do not know how long it will take for a good spell of weather to come along to dry the land. Thousands of...

Seanad: EU Regulations (Police Co-operation on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings): Motion (11 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...reducing the activity of migrant smuggling groups, of ensuring that Ireland is not seen as a soft touch and that ideally people realise this is not a place to send them. For every aircraft that lands in Dublin Airport and in any of our airports, the airlines know the nationality or suggested nationality of everybody on that aeroplane. Obviously, anybody who is a British national, an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Mr. Seamus McCarthy: The public trustee is an official of the Department of agriculture. The function was created under the Land Act 1903. Effectively, there were sums of money that were being held in trust. I think there is a total of 148 trusts. They are obviously small at this stage but they would have been moneys put by for purposes under the Land Act such as, for example,...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024) See 11 other results from this debate

...ód Éireann wants to see the role of rail in meeting the transport needs of our country expand. We are about to embark on the most significant expansion of our rail network in generations. The draft all-island strategic rail review, prepared by the Department of Transport in Ireland and the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland, outlines the strategic pathway we will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues: Discussion (11 Apr 2024)

...about how we regard the impact of the case currently before the courts. That will go through an appellant system, so it would probably be unfair to speculate or comment on where it will ultimately land. However, the point we are here to make very clearly is that this is one public outworking of a challenge to what the Conservative Party is attempting to do regarding the affairs of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024) See 19 other results from this debate

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is actually happening. This is not an attempt to get at people who are genuinely putting forward legitimate planning or development proposals. However, where people are knowingly hoarding land for the purposes of speculation on the appreciation of land that could be used for housing, measures have to be taken to address that. There are different ways of going at this. I am in favour...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024) See 4 other results from this answer

Malcolm Noonan: ...All sets out the range of actions necessary to increase the supply of housing out to 2030 comprising of 54,000 affordable homes to be delivered by local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies, the Land Development Agency and through the First Home Scheme, which is a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. The Plan set ambitious targets for affordable housing and huge...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) has been identified as a key measure to address the different housing needs in Ireland and methods to support the development of MMC in Ireland are set out in Housing for All. In December 2022, funding of €94m was provided to local authorities to address legacy land debts. The provision of this funding was linked to the immediate development of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...plan to 2030. This includes the delivery of 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes to be facilitated by Local Authorities, Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs), the Land Development Agency (LDA) and through First Home, a strategic partnership between the State and retail banks. Following the publication of Housing for All in September 2021, I asked...