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Question· writtenPQ 146asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
146. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the extent to which the alternative energy electricity generating programme continues at pace, with particular reference to availing of wind generation, onshore and offshore; the precise extent to which this capacity has increased or is increasing with a view to maximisation at the earliest possible date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41659/24]
Question· writtenPQ 145asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
145. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the degree to which wind and solar electricity generating targets are being realised at present; the extent to which such generation can be accelerated in the short to medium term, with particular reference to the expected contribution to the national grid over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41658/24]
Question· writtenPQ 144asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
144. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the extent to which deficiencies in the availability of adequate broadband facilities continue to be identified in all areas throughout County Kildare; the remedial action in hand to address this issue, given the importance of access to high-speed broadband for commercial and educational purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41656/24]
Question· writtenPQ 143asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
143. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the extent to which Ireland’s emissions have been reduced in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41655/24]
Question· writtenPQ 142asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
142. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the ongoing steps to support remote working through the roll-out of high-speed fibre broadband connections, particularly to blackspot-prone rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41654/24]
Question· writtenPQ 141asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
141. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the extent to which mobile telephone services remain good when compared with other European Union member states or adjoining countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41653/24]
Question· writtenPQ 140asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
140. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline the success of the deposit return scheme for plastic bottles to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41652/24]
Question· writtenPQ 139asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
139. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the extent to which the national waste management plan continues to address issues like reduction, reuse and recycle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41651/24]
Question· writtenPQ 138asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
138. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the international events and engagements he has attended at which members of the media were also in attendance as part of the Government delegation since the formation of the Government; the media organisation they represented; the cost involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41600/24]
Question· writtenPQ 137asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
137. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will confirm the status of Ireland’s membership of the Joint Taskforce on International Taxation, now known as the Global Solidarity Levies Taskforce; if so, if he will make a statement on the levies and taxation options identified, and report on progress on the envisaged narrowing down of options; if not, the rationale for leaving the task force that is now known as the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force; and if he will make a statement on the initiatives to ensure that new sources of climate finance based on tax justice and polluter pays principles are identified and agreed. [41533/24]
Question· writtenPQ 136asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
136. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he supports designating LNGs or data centres as strategic infrastructure (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41395/24]
Question· writtenPQ 135asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
135. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the steps he will take the address the legal weaknesses of the Government moratorium on liquefied natural gas infrastructure exposed by a recent High Court judgment. [41394/24]
Question· writtenPQ 134asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
134. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of homes funded for retrofit in 2024 for Cork city and county councils, respectively, under the warmer homes schemes. [41305/24]
Question· writtenPQ 133asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
133. Deputy Steven Matthews asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the position regarding the implementation of the recast renewable energy directive; the legislative process required to progress it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41295/24]
Question· writtenPQ 132asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
132. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide support for a deployment of a nationwide DNA dog testing trial, given the ineffectiveness of existing fines, the negative impact that dog fouling has on children, wheelchair users and people who are vision impaired; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41239/24]
Question· writtenPQ 131asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
131. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when fibre optic broadband will roll out to service an address (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41233/24]
Question· writtenPQ 130asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
130. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41178/24]
Question· writtenPQ 129asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
129. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of staff who worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41160/24]
Question· writtenPQ 128asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
128. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if it is national policy to conserve invasive escaped farmed salmon in special area of conservation waters that are only open to catch-and-release angling and closed fisheries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41136/24]
Question· writtenPQ 127asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
127. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the review has been completed by his officials into the continued application in SAC waters of the Conservation of and Prohibition on Sale of Coarse Fish Bye-Law No. 806 (2006) and the Conservation of Pike Bye-Law No. 809 (2006); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41135/24]
Question· writtenPQ 126asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
126. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications how long more Inland Fisheries Ireland, which operates under his aegis, will be led by a carousel of deputy CEOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41134/24]
Question· writtenPQ 125asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
125. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason no appropriate assessment screening was conducted for the Conservation of Salmon and Sea Trout Ballysadare (Closed Rivers), Bye-law No. C.S. 336, 2024, that covered multiple special areas of conservation, considering his statement of 27 July 2021 vis-à-vis the EU legal requirement to assess potential impacts of proposed fisheries by-laws on the conservation objectives of special area of conservation waters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41133/24]
Question· writtenPQ 124asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
124. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there have been any personnel changes to the position of principal officer within the inland fisheries division of his Department this calendar year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41132/24]
Question· writtenPQ 123asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
123. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will revoke the pike conservation by-law (No. 809) and the coarse fish conservation by-law (No. 806) from 2006, considering that a 2011 social science case study (details supplied) stated that the two by-laws were formulated on the basis of perceived threats to fish stocks, false facts and latent racism driven by an intense ethnocentrism from pike-coarse angling lobbyists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41131/24]
Question· writtenPQ 122asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
122. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will expedite the provision of fibre broadband through National Broadband Ireland to a new-build housing estate (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41123/24]
Question· writtenPQ 121asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
121. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he is aware that the increase given to retired An Post pensioners in January of 2024 has still not gone into payment; the steps he has taken to ensure that these pensioners get their rise; and when the payment is expected to issue. [41087/24]
Question· writtenPQ 120asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
120. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the Environmental Protection Agency, as the competent authority that enforces the environmental liability Directive (ELD), has a register of so-called ELD cases; and whether that register is a matter of public record. [41015/24]
Question· writtenPQ 119asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
119. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if, under the environmental liability Directive and its iterations, environmental liability insurance exists; if there is published guidance on the financial provision for environmental liability; and if so, whether such guidance is published. [41014/24]
Question· writtenPQ 118asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
118. Deputy Brian Leddin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans to change the way waste is collected in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40995/24]
Question· writtenPQ 117asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
117. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the annual Exchequer funding provided to incentivise tradespeople to register for the one stop shop retrofitting programme; and the allocation for 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [40953/24]
Question· writtenPQ 116asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
116. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline current policy towards community-led renewable energy projects as well as local renewable energy trusts. [40950/24]
Question· writtenPQ 115asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
115. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the estimated cost of holding an annual renewable electricity support scheme auction. [40928/24]
Question· writtenPQ 114asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
114. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline any analysis carried out by his Department, consultancy or State body, relating to repowering windfarms in Ireland that will reach their end of life in 2030 and associated annual Exchequer costs; to outline any State funding both current and capital allocated to date in 2024; and the funding committed over the remainder of this decade to repowering such windfarms. [40927/24]
Question· writtenPQ 113asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
113. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline long-term battery storage capacity currently in Ireland; and to outline any State funding provided on an annual basis to such projects, in tabular form. [40926/24]
Question· writtenPQ 112asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
112. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline the targets set out for increasing onshore wind, solar PV and offshore wind energy generation in GW by 2030; the estimated annual cost to Exchequer required to meet these targets, in tabular form. [40925/24]
Question· writtenPQ 111asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
111. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide an update on the upgrading of the national grid, including the transmission of offshore energy into the national grid; the estimated timeline for completion; the State funding both current and capital to date towards this project; and the Exchequer funding committed over the remainder of this decade. [40924/24]
Question· writtenPQ 110asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
110. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide an update on the Celtic Interconnector project; the estimated timeline for completion; the amount of State funding to date towards the project; and the remaining Exchequer funding both current and capital committed over the remainder of this decade. [40923/24]
Question· writtenPQ 109asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
109. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there are any proposals by the Government to bring in a scheme to help farmers pay for the cost of disposing of tires properly (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41302/24]
Question· writtenPQ 108asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
108. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to detail the consequences of non-compliances with conditions of foreshore licences; how adherence to conditions is monitored and enforced; to provide details of the number of non-compliances, with regard to foreshore licences for offshore wind development survey work, notified in recent years; to detail any actual investigations of or penalties applied to breach of foreshore licence requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41010/24]
Question· writtenPQ 86asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
86. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his efforts to address the ongoing high cost of energy in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41378/24]
Question· writtenPQ 85asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
85. Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on how best to establish a new collective quantified goal on climate finance at COP29; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41335/24]
Question· writtenPQ 84asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
84. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the extent to which broadband provision throughout the country is progressing as intended; if efforts continue to bridge communication gaps that have become obvious; if he can see a means whereby the provision of broadband throughout all the regions can be maximised in early date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41440/24]
Question· writtenPQ 83asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
83. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the National Broadband plan rollout will be complete in Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41391/24]
Question· writtenPQ 82asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
82. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his attention has been drawn to the widespread concern of businesses trading in household energy products due to smoky coal products being imported illegally into the State; the resources that he is providing to local authorities to counteract such illegal trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41390/24]
Question· writtenPQ 81asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
81. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the Government's position and policy in respect of liquefied natural gas (LNG) proposals, and the remarks of a judge (details supplied) about not being convinced that the Government has a clear policy against LNG terminals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41442/24]
Question· writtenPQ 80asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
80. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the measures being taken to ensure that the development of offshore energy is not located in areas that will force the displacement of existing livelihoods, particularly fishing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41418/24]
Question· writtenPQ 79asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
79. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications what steps he will take to ban liquefied natural gas infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41401/24]
Question· writtenPQ 78asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
78. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the criteria that a contractor or builder must meet in order to be listed on the SEAI's website; how often these are reviewed and revised; if he is aware of concerns that work is not being carried out to an adequate standard (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41375/24]
Question· writtenPQ 77asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
77. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if Re-Turn has carried out the consultative process it committed to carry out to examine any accessibility issues for disabled people with the deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41413/24]
Question· writtenPQ 76asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2024
76. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications for an update on the North-South Interconnector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41412/24]
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