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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I have not yet been consulted by the Taoiseach with regard to fossil fuel advertising. While I would, in principle, support such a ban, advertising standards do not fall within the remit of my Department. However, much has been done to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, which I believe answers the call of Secretary General Guterres. Our Department no longer accepts new applications for...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)
Paul Murphy: It is interesting that the Minister states his Department is not responsible. I got a letter from the Ceann Comhairle disallowing one of the questions I put asking if the Minister would support such a ban. It was disallowed on the basis that the Minister has no official responsibility to Dáil Éireann and that the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland is a self-regulatory...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition (27 Jun 2024)
Just Transition
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition (27 Jun 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a detailed breakdown of where the EU just transition funding is to go; the reason it is being focused solely on the midlands instead of including areas like County Clare that are also losing our fossil fuel power stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27583/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition (27 Jun 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: I ask the Minister to provide a detailed breakdown of where the EU just transition funding is to go; the reason it is being focused solely on the midlands instead of including areas like County Clare which are also losing fossil fuel power stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition (27 Jun 2024)
Eamon Ryan: The EU Just Transition Fund is a new fund created under the 2021-27 EU budget period, operating within the framework of the EU cohesion policy. The fund’s single specific objective is to support the regions in the European Union that are most negatively affected by the transition to climate neutrality. In essence, the fund aims to address employment, economic, social and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition (27 Jun 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: As the Minister has outlined, I understand that significant funding is being made available for Ireland to assist the regions and communities that are most negatively impacted by the transition to climate neutrality and to promote socioeconomic transition. Ireland is assessed to receive €84.5 million up to 2027 and the Government plans to match this funding with Exchequer resources....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition (27 Jun 2024)
Eamon Ryan: The Deputy is right in saying that County Clare is not included. In conjunction with European Commission, it was decided that it would involve counties Offaly, Laois, Longford, Westmeath and Roscommon as well as five additional municipal districts: Ballinasloe in County Galway; Athy and Clane-Maynooth in County Kildare; and Carrick-on-Suir and Thurles in County Tipperary. That is because...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition (27 Jun 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate that the midlands needs that extra assistance and I appreciate what the Minister said in respect of Moneypoint, but I have outlined the employment opportunities for the community. Responses to parliamentary questions have shown that when it comes to the construction of the offshore wind farms at Moneypoint, there may be employment of up to 600 positions but outside that,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Just Transition (27 Jun 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I take the Deputy's point about Kilrush. There are other towns across the country where we have particular difficulties. I believe this green energy revolution will benefit such towns. It will not always be the big projects. The Moneypoint development for offshore wind is a really large-scale project and it will take some time. However, there are immediate opportunities. Earlier in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)
Environmental Policy
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: 74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if discussions with the various sectors have commenced on the expectations of stakeholders to deliver circular economy strategies; if he will outline the greatest barriers which the Government is encountering in delivering climate targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27581/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: It is well known that sectors such as food, construction and transport can greatly reduce their negative impact on the environment - not just emissions but biodiversity-impacting pollution waste. I know that the Minister has ambitions to do this. Have we already started getting the sectors together to make the changes that are needed?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)
Ossian Smyth: Ireland’s strategic approach to the circular economy is set out in the whole-of-government Circular Economy Strategy 2022-2023. The Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 provides a statutory basis for future iterations of the strategy and requires that such iterations include sectoral targets aimed at promoting circularity across the range of resource-intensive...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (27 Jun 2024)
Eamon Ryan: We have the Department of Transport, an arm of central government, saying that it will close one road and open another. It needs local leadership. A second example of where we have a real issue is that a number of county councils in response to public concerns have basically frozen out the potential development of renewable power in their various development plans. Our ability to meet our...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (27 Jun 2024)
Question No. 71 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (27 Jun 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Anois, bogaimid ar aghaidh. An chéad cheist eile ná Uimh. 72 in ainm an Teachta David Stanton.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Postal Services (27 Jun 2024)
Postal Services
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Postal Services (27 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: 72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 16 November 2023, to report on the funding provided to An Post to date as part of the €10 million per annum from within his Department’s existing capital provision for the period 2023 to 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27424/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Postal Services (27 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: This is to give the Minister an opportunity to report on the funding provided to An Post to date as part of the €10 million per annum from within his Department's existing capital provision for the period 2023 to 2025.