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

Jackie Cahill: I sincerely thank the Minister for taking on board the request from the Oireachtas joint committee, which I am privileged to chair. I really appreciate him doing so. Our report is entitled Environmental Impact of Local Industrial Emissions in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny, and I welcome the fact that we will have a review of what happened there. I will not go back over what I said earlier in...

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

Question put and agreed to.

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

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 5.31 p.m. go dtí 2 p.m., Dé Máirt, an 9 Iúil 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 5.31 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 9 July 2024.

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

Malcolm Noonan: I welcome Dan Brennan, Francie Gorman, Denis Drennan and representatives of the farm organisations to the House. I am sure Dan's family are watching at home as well. This is an important day for Dan and his family. I know Dan. He is a responsible and good farmer. I visited his farm with former Deputies Mary White and John Gormley during the depths of that crisis and saw at first hand...

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

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, the committee Chairman, Deputy Cahill, and all of the members of the committee for their report and the work they did on this. I acknowledge again the presence of Dan Brennan and his family members, as well as farm organisation representatives and supporters in the House today. As I said in my earlier contribution, there has been significant...

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

Bernard Durkan: I call Deputy Fitzmaurice. The Deputy has four minutes.

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: Excuse me, but I believe I have eight minutes. I commend Deputy Cahill, the Chair of our committee. He has sunk his teeth into this. As Deputy Harkin said, Deputy Carthy is from Monaghan. I am from Roscommon-Galway. Dan Brennan does not live in our area. Deputy Cahill is from Tipperary. When Dan Brennan appeared before our committee, we knew that somebody does not keep something...

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

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister for being here and warmly welcome Dan Brennan, his family and friends and representatives of the farm organisations. Some facts are in dispute but this is what we know. The Brennan family ran a successful farm that was considered to be top-notch by anyone who ever saw it. Then problems began to emerge at the same time as activities taking place in a nearby factory....

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

Marian Harkin: I may not use all of the eight minutes. I am here because I have known Dan Brennan for a long time. I am not a member of the agriculture committee. I congratulate its Chair and the various members of the committee for their tireless and unceasing work on this. It gives me great faith in the committee and in the workings of this House that we can get to this point. I will come back to the...

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.