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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I will have to go back to the Minister with all these requests.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: The Minister of State visited the site and the residents are really thankful. While I am following up, the consequences of the poor co-ordination of infrastructure in Clongriffin and Belmayne in my constituency are being felt every day by residents. It is an extremely densely populated area, but there are no community facilities, including no library, no primary healthcare and an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: Private wires are an essential part of developing the wider need on energy and digital infrastructure. What I was about to say was that some of the lengthy development cycles and regulatory complexity and fragmentation across regulatory bodies is extremely problematic. Too much uncertainty and delay is driven by legal, planning and consenting processes. There is also the issue of capacity...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: I thank the Minister for his response. I urge his Department to take a more active role in identifying and responding to the key areas and needs left in Clongriffin, Belmayne and all of north Dublin in my constituency. This community has 15,000 people, with more moving in each year. The area does not even have a supermarket; people have to leave. The area has one of the highest rates of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Jack Chambers: If we look at the national planning framework and all the different existing policies, it is about complementing housing delivery with community infrastructure and social infrastructure. We have had significantly increased supports for the development of social infrastructure across the State. If we look back to the last Government, we had one of the biggest interventions around developing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Peter Cleere: I call Deputy O'Connor very briefly. I know his Questions Nos. 7 and 9 were taken by Deputy McCarthy. Would the Deputy like to come in very briefly? I know he was at a select committee meeting.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

James O'Connor: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. I am sorry. I apologise because I am chairing a select committee this morning, too.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Peter Cleere: I ask the Deputy to be very brief. We have dealt with these questions, but I will give the Deputy an opportunity.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

James O'Connor: Go raibh maith agat. I just wish to reiterate the point regarding the need to expedite the flood schemes for Mogeely and Castlemartyr in terms of tranche 2 schemes and for Rathcormac as well, and the importance of this being done. Deputy McCarthy and I are in the House this morning as local Government TDs. The communities impacted post Storm Babet need to see this critical flood...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I gave a detailed response earlier, but I fully appreciate and understand clearly where the Deputy is coming from. As I said to Deputy McCarthy, this is an area I am looking at. Ministers and Ministers of State have visited the area, including me. I know how important tranche 2 is, but I also know how important tranche 1 is. There are the bigger schemes we are delivering across the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Peter Cleere: I am going to move back briefly to Question No. 6 from Deputy Lahart. After this, just to be fair to everybody, I am not going to go back anymore if someone is not here. Just to be fair to Deputy Lahart, I will let him in now.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Flexibility is always welcome in a Chair.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (17 Jul 2025)

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (17 Jul 2025)

John Lahart: 6. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when work will be undertaken to renew the exterior protective finish of Rathfarnham Castle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39992/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (17 Jul 2025)

John Lahart: I will not take the full time. This question is just in relation to Rathfarnham Castle and to ask the Minister for an update on it. It is a cosmetic-related question on the upgrading of the exterior of the building and the progress on this work.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I thank the Deputy. Rathfarnham Castle was built in 1583 and throughout its long and rich history has been owned by Archbishop Adam Loftus, the founder of Trinity College, Speaker Conolly, and the Jesuit Order. The castle is one of Ireland's oldest Elizabethan houses. For most of the 20th century, the castle was owned and occupied by the Jesuits. The castle was declared a national...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 and 9 together. The launch in 2018 of the flood risk management plans trebled, to some 100, the number of flood relief schemes at design and construction. There remain some 50 schemes, referred to as tranche II, yet to commence work on their design, due to constraints of professional engineering services and skills in Ireland. However, the Government is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Noel McCarthy: I thank the Minister of State. At this time of year, we tend to see less rain, however, this does not stop those in Cork East whose property was damaged by flood water from worrying. I acknowledge considerable flood prevention works have been undertaken across Cork East but concerns will always remain until full flood protection measures are introduced. Lack of insurance cover further...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Kevin Moran: I thank the Deputy. The Taoiseach and I visited Midleton and met the people there. I always say in the House that from start to finish, a scheme takes 11 years. It is very hard for people to accept this, particularly when their houses and businesses have been flooded. I understand well the areas in Midleton and the pressures on them. With regard to the other areas in question, I am...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Peter Cleere: The Minister of State is like Shaws. He is almost nationwide but do not forget Kilkenny as well.