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Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Seanad amendment No. 19 amends section 9 to provide that where the Minister proposes exempted development regulations that are likely to affect the performance of a State authority, the Minister shall consult that State authority before making the regulations. The text as currently written has this as a discretionary consultation, however it is appropriate that any such consultation be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Go raibh maith agat. I welcome the witnesses. I reached out to the various representative organisations. These include the fish producer organisations, the exporter associations and the aquaculture industry. I advised them that the witnesses would be here today and to give me their feedback ahead of the meeting. The responses make for sober reading. I will go through them. I think we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We need to work together to find a solution to this. In the case of the BAR funding that was provided for producers, there were two schemes and under the capital one, €30 million was spent out of a possible €45 million. Under the transition scheme, it was recommended that €12 million would be sought but Ireland applied for €7 million. We could go back and forth...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I appreciate that. I want to discuss the shellfish sector. We had a bottom-growing mussel industry worth about €40 million 20 years ago. This will be its second year in a row of zero. I want to get a sense of the plan the Department has to rejuvenate the industry. One of the big concerns is that even though the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Act was brought in following the Supreme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Ms McSherry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Dialogue on Women in Agriculture: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I want to commend all the witnesses. I spoke to them earlier. We need to pave a way forward and show that there are lots of good things and lots of positivity happening around agriculture in Ireland. We need to pave a way forward and show that there are many good things happening and much positivity in agriculture in Ireland. Unfortunately, women were airbrushed into the background for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for his presentation. On student accommodation, he referred to student accommodation for targeted students being below market price. Who are the target students? What is the qualifying criteria? How would the programme be rolled out? How would students be informed that they could apply for the exemption or support?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Who are the target students? What are the categories? Does the Department lay out the criteria for the universities to follow?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: I fully agree with the Minister that the mindset around apprenticeships needs to change. It definitely does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Apprenticeships are of equal value to a university degree. We in Ireland need to change our view of apprenticeships. As the Minister rightly said, in Germany and other places people take a different view of apprenticeship and they are treated as equivalent to a university degree, and rightly so. The Minister is right that we do need to reach parents. Is there collaboration with career...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Carol Nolan: Yes. The Minister mentioned career guidance teachers. They have shown leadership on this issue. Traditionally, some schools are better than others at promoting apprenticeships at a whole-school level. It is unfair to directly blame any career guidance teacher but some schools have a culture of apprenticeships. The school I attended was known as "the tech" at the time and such schools...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Seanad amendment No. 1 agreed to.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Seanad amendment No. 2:

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 2: In subsection (3), after “subsection (4)”, to insert “and subsection (6)”.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 2 put and declared lost.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 2 to Seanad amendment No. 2: After subsection (3), to insert the following: “(4) Except in the case of Part 24, and any provision where it is otherwise expressly indicated that the provision comes into effect on enactment, the Minister, at least 6 weeks prior to the Minister commencing any provision of this Act under subsection (3), shall— (a) lay...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Amendment No. 2 to Seanad amendment No. 2 put and declared lost.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Amendments Nos. 3 and 4 to Seanad amendment No. 2 are out of order.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Amendments Nos. 3 and 4 to Seanad amendment No. 2 not moved.