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Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ..., a broad gap remains between household energy and social welfare income, leaving low-income households very vulnerable to energy poverty. That is why this Government’s untargeted and frankly wasteful response to the energy crisis must be called out. In the last two budgets, millions of euro went to households that simply did not need it. The Social Democrats have consistently...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...mess now. Any living thing that goes near it will either die or get sick. It is one of the biggest environmental disasters to have ever happened in Ireland, North or South. The farm nutrient management scheme was introduced in the North of Ireland where £200 million was spent to fund animal waste storage. Aontú has seen internal documents from the Department of Agriculture,...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (25 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ..., including applied energy research and demonstration programmes and projects. This investment in innovative energy research projects is crucial in helping Ireland to transition to a clean and secure energy future for us all. More than €124 million is allocated to programme C, circular economy development, to tackle environmental damage, manage waste, safeguard our natural...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (20 Jun 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures being taken to ensure the uptake of household bio-waste collection in apartment buildings; and if he has engaged with waste service providers on this issue. [26577/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

...to appear today to discuss the circular economy as it relates to consumer durables and to report on producer responsibility schemes. As we are all aware, the linear economic model of take-make-waste is environmentally and economically unsustainable, with global resource consumption outstripping the planet’s natural resource capacity. Achieving a circular economy will play a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Industry (13 Jun 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: There is a 1% inspection check on this. That is why it is important that everybody is managing themselves well and doing the right thing in not applying any more fertiliser to the soil than is needed. Of course, that saves money. In the event of a farmer being in the 1% that gets inspected, there is the prospect of a potential penalty. The penalties are small for small infringements by...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., democracy is not an optional extra when it comes to the planning of what we in this country are going to do with a framework that affects everything. It affects housing, water, sanitation, waste management, energy, the economy, housing, biodiversity and climate. It affects absolutely everything. This framework is setting out a plan for the country. We do not just want a cursory...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Infrastructure Guidelines: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jun 2024)

Seán Canney: ...the course of construction for a fraction of the amount. In addition, if a doctor wants to go into the primary care centre after 12 noon on a Saturday, he or she will not get in because the people who manage the place have a contract with the PPP company to finish at 12 noon and that is it. That is an area that needs rigorous attention from the Department of Public Expenditure, National...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)

...at 32 million passengers per year. Why would the DAA’s primary plan be to spend €250 million building a tunnel that goes nowhere? If the airport’s traffic is capped for the next four years, stop wasting money on facilities like a tunnel that none of the airlines at Dublin Airport supports. The DAA should be trying to expand some of the gate facilities and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: .... The Deputy also talked about environmental considerations. The meals suppliers are responsible for operating policies that progressively address environmental considerations such as waste and packaging. Finally, in terms of the Ennistymon school, I did get a local solution in place. That was done and I tried to continue it. I want to know whether the board of management has...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2024)

Seán Canney: ...to be knocked to the ground and a new school needs to be built. That is a fact. It has a waiting list. It has people and families who are hoping to try to get their children in, and the school management is trying to facilitate everybody and has to tell people it does not have a place for them. I have been working with a number of families. It is very disheartening for them. I...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Haulage Industry (11 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: My Department has been engaging with key stakeholders including the Irish Waste Management Association (IWMA) and the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) on this matter, including on the timing of removing the existing exemptions for construction waste and the rate at which a levy for construction waste would apply. The Irish Plant Contractors’ Association participated in a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The policy of providing grant funding to households for work on Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (DWWTS), including septic tanks, arises from the need to address damage being done to water quality in sensitive areas in particular. The grants are focused on the areas of greatest environmental priority and are available only in circumstances relating to risks to water quality and/or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (30 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The policy of providing grant funding to households for work on Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (DWWTS), including septic tanks, arises from the need to address damage being done to water quality in sensitive areas in particular. The grants are focused on the areas of greatest environmental priority and are available only in circumstances relating to risks to water quality and/or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I raise the issue of Bord na Móna's plans to sell off its waste management business, as was reported recently. This risks further concentration of waste management services, which is potentially bad for workers and customers. It is further privatisation when the opposite should be happening. Is the Taoiseach aware of the plan and has he or the Government assessed it in terms of...

Seanad: Housing Commission Report: Motion (29 May 2024)

Mark Wall: ...have been hearing on the doorsteps in recent weeks and months. Rents are rising, homelessness is at a record high and increasing every month and house prices are soaring. The Government has failed to manage and tackle this crisis. The commission's estimate of a housing deficit ranging from 212,500 to 265,000 homes, based on the 2022 census figures, sets out the scale of the problem the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (29 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The policy of providing grant funding to households for work on Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (DWWTS), including septic tanks, arises from the need to address damage being done to water quality in sensitive areas in particular. The grants are focused on the areas of greatest environmental priority and are available only in circumstances relating to risks to water quality and/or...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (28 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...man proposal was published in 2018, there have been what I consider to be important improvements to the central processing authority, the filtering of money through that authority, and the capping of management fees, which is an improvement on what we saw in 2018. In the current context, the large and growing gap in pension coverage in this country means that auto-enrolment has never...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...The alternative will not be easy. We will have to be at the cutting edge of learning how to do it but I believe we can: with the renewable power we have, with flexible use of the grid, with demand management, and with the use of waste heat and district heating, as well as the likes of biomethane as a backup fuel.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...the 2024/25 school year and in future school years. The funding allocated to the scheme in the 2024/25 school year takes account of this. This is also in line with ensuring value for money for the taxpayer and avoiding significant waste of books etc. where possible. As part of the on-going evaluation of the scheme, all schools will be asked to provide data on their expenditure in...