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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

North-South Interconnector

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of meetings he has undertaken with communities impacted by the North-South interconnector; the outcome of those meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27574/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: How many meetings has the Minister undertaken with communities impacted by the North-South interconnector and what has been the outcome of those meetings?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Responsibility for the regulation of the electricity market is a matter for the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, an independent regulator accountable to a committee of the Oireachtas and not to me as Minister. The CRU was assigned responsibility for the regulation of the electricity sector following the enactment of the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 and subsequent legislation....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: The Minister stated this is an essential infrastructure project. I recall, when I was a member of Cavan County Council, having discussions about this project, which must have been in 2006 or 2007. We are almost 20 years on and the project has not moved at all. The main reason it has not moved is that the landowners are totally opposed, from my consultation with them, to this going over...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I do not have the exact figures but this issue has been subject to debate. I have had extensive meetings with the county councils in counties impacted but also with the North-South Ministerial Council, where the Deputy's Sinn Féin colleagues in Northern Ireland have a critical role. They agree with me that we need this project. It needs to be built and it is vital for both the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I ask Deputy Tully to respond briefly.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I accept the importance of this project but I am concerned about how it is going to proceed if there is such opposition on the ground. Is there a contingency plan to deal with that? Have EirGrid, the Government or the Oireachtas committee referenced by the Minister that has oversight of this issue any other plans in place to deal with this? All I can see is strong opposition on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: I appreciate what is happening, but when we passed that circular economy Act it was enshrined that we would have the second circular economy strategy within six months. The Government has not activated that section, so as a result the six months did not start. That is a sleight of hand. In countries that have been successful in this field, they had voluntary compacts developed before the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Ossian Smyth: As the Deputy has said, we are within the law. The six months starts from the time that section is commenced. I understand the Deputy's frustration. It is taking longer than expected. The problem is more complex than we thought. It will be delivered by the end of this year. Part of what we needed to do was commission a national circularity assessment and material flow analysis to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: There were loads of things that could be done. Some 60% of what we discard goes into the wrong place where it cannot be recovered. There is no question of recovery, recycling or reuse. That was an early win. We do not have to wait for statutory obligations to come in to get the sectors around the table eliminating things like that. That is where my frustration comes from. It is a lot of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: It is important to remember that we need progress in this area. We also need co-ordinated progress. We need to have regard to the extent to which we address the issues in a meaningful way without impacting negatively on another community. The danger is having a Dublin solution to a nationwide problem. It does not work that way. It has to be a case of bringing all the people of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Ossian Smyth: It is not the case that I am waiting for these reports before I can do anything in the sectors. We are really trying to make progress already. I have, for example, proposed mandatory segregation of waste on commercial operators, which was never there. People in their homes have to segregate their waste but there was no obligation for businesses to do that. I am also changing the rules on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Environmental Policy

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has been consulted by An Taoiseach in relation to the possibility of a ban on fossil fuel advertising; if so, what his advice was; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27538/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: I am sure the Minister has seen the comments by the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, calling for a ban on fossil fuel advertising. He correctly calls the fossil fuel companies the godfathers of climate chaos, who rake in record profits while the most vulnerable are left stranded. I asked the Taoiseach about this a couple of weeks ago and he said he would speak to the Minister,...

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]