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Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Referral to Select Committee (25 Jun 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Referral to Select Committee (25 Jun 2024)

Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Referral to Select Committee (25 Jun 2024)

Martin Heydon: I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Orders in draft: (i) Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024, and (ii) Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 19th June, 2024, be referred to the Select Committee on Finance, Public...

Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Referral to Select Committee (25 Jun 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Ceisteanna - Questions (25 Jun 2024)

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Cabinet Committees

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [24005/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [26068/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [26072/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [26276/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [26279/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [27039/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, together. Climate change is among the most pressing global challenges of our time and addressing it is a central ambition of the Government. As a committed partner in global efforts to combat this shared threat, Ireland has adopted challenging emissions reduction targets at both EU and national levels. We also face our own domestic...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy Ó Murchú will respond on behalf of Deputy McDonald.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I want to bring up the issues of district heating and communal heating systems. This not the first time I have brought up the issue of Carlinn Hall in Dundalk. We talk about district heating systems and communal heating systems, which is what is there and which is operated off gas. Obviously, there are particular laws and planning changes that need to happen because I do not believe these...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: Two weeks ago the Taoiseach gave me two commitments, the first being that he would personally contact the chief executive of Uisce Éireann to request a timeline for the resolution of the dirty water issue in Cork city. The second commitment was that he would discuss the matter with the Tánaiste. They say that a week is a long time in politics but it is a longer time again when one...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The marine protected areas legislation has been on the priority legislation list for 20 months and it still has not even been published. The Minister of State, Deputy Malcolm Noonan, was asked about this in January of this year and he said it would be published in the first quarter. It still has not been published. Ireland has the lowest proportion of its marine environment protected of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: International mining companies, including a subsidiary of the world's largest lithium producer, Ganfeng Lithium Corporation, are on the Taoiseach's doorstep in west Wicklow. They are prospecting for lithium and mapping for a mine at Moylisha Hill. Local people and campaigners I met are very worried about the impact this will have on the Wicklow Way, on biodiversity and on water quality. An...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Nash for raising this important issue. We have tried to put a focus on dereliction and vacancy through a range of grants to help local authorities and individuals to put properties back into use. I will seek an urgent update from the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, on the timeline for the Derelict Sites Act review. I look forward to having that meeting with Deputy Nash shortly on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Joan Collins: In reply to a question I submitted recently regarding the lack of suitable accommodation for people with disabilities in LDA cost-rental developments, the Department of housing stated that the tenant is responsible for the financial cost of adaptation and recommended the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability. As one must earn below €66,000 but above the social housing...