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Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Motion (4 Jul 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy Cahill and the committee for their work on this and for commissioning the report on the environmental impact of local industrial emissions in Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, which was completed last year. I acknowledge the presence of Dan Brennan and his colleagues, farm representatives Francie Gorman and Denis Drennan, who are the presidents of the IFA and ICMSA, and other...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I think we are making a bit of history. What the Minister of State is effectively saying to us is that a registered charity has a deal to access a piece of public land.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: No, it is being built by the OPW.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I did not get to that yet. It got the site from the National Concert Hall by whatever means. That has been arranged. It has gone to arbitration to get the OPW to build it. The OPW is the manager and curator of the State's facilities and properties. The arbitrator's decision is that the OPW must build it. That seems to imply the Government must also fund it. Would you not want to know...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Chris Andrews: How much you are going to spend.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will deal with the core point brought up by Deputy Andrews. My understanding is that it will not encroach on Iveagh Gardens.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Chris Andrews: Trees will have to be knocked. A partition wall is going to be knocked too.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It went through a legal process. The legal process has gone on for many years and dates back to 2003. There was a Government decision at the time. It was before my time and ultimately ended up in arbitration. The most recent arbitration was in 2021. The arbitrator made a decision in June 2022, which basically said the OPW is legally obliged to build it. The next steps were that the OPW...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Minister of State. I suspect we will hear a great deal more about it. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, for being here, and all the Members for raising the various matters.

Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Motion (4 Jul 2024)

Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Motion (4 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We move to a very important report by the committee on agriculture and food.

Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Motion (4 Jul 2024)

Jackie Cahill: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine entitled "Environmental Impact of Local Industrial Emissions in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 11th May, 2023. As Chairman of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, I am glad to present...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I might be a bit slow, but could the Deputy make it clear to us who is proposing to build this mysterious centre?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Chris Andrews: Well, it is the ICML, which is a charity.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: What does it have to do with the National Concert Hall?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Chris Andrews: That is the site where the building will be constructed.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Who is giving the charity the site?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Chris Andrews: The OPW is going to build it and it was locked into an agreement several years ago.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Right. Can we hear the Minister of State anyway?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (4 Jul 2024)

Chris Andrews: Yes. If I could just say, the cost of this project started at €15 million. It is now going to cost €70 million.