Results 441-460 of 1,094,509 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Joe O'Brien OR speaker:Martin Heydon OR speaker:Martin Browne OR speaker:Frank Feighan OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Gary Gannon OR speaker:Robert Troy OR speaker:Michael Moynihan OR speaker:James Lawless OR speaker:Stephen Donnelly OR speaker:David Cullinane OR speaker:Mary Butler OR speaker:Malcolm Noonan OR speaker:Darragh O'Brien OR speaker:Ciarán Cannon OR speaker:Michael Healy-Rae OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Brian Leddin OR speaker:Pauline Tully OR speaker:Matt Carthy OR speaker:Sorca Clarke OR speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú OR speaker:Seán Canney OR speaker:Paul Donnelly OR speaker:Dessie Ellis OR speaker:Simon Harris) in 'Committee meetings'
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I would like to see Deputy Murphy supporting-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: What are the euro ratings of the trains the Minister is proposing to put the clean trucks on? Answer that.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: What I would love to see Deputy Murphy supporting, as part of this new investment to a green economy, is the investment in Rosslare Harbour. It is at the centre of a new, cleaner way of doing things, including the reintroduction of rail freight and the restoration of the rail line from Wexford to Waterford-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: What is the euro rating of the trains?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: -----to revitalise both.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: The Minister does not have it.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: That is the future. It is going green.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (15 Oct 2024)
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Climate Change Policy
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to help achieve a timeframed process for the delivery of climate finance to communities most in need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41336/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This question relates to climate finance. COP29 is being termed in some quarters as the finance COP. We have big work to do in terms of setting the new collective quantified goal. I ask for a sense of the direction our climate finance will be taking domestically and how we propose to direct it to communities most in need as well as how we propose to influence the direction travel of...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: Ireland’s all-of-government international climate finance roadmap, published in July 2022, sets out the strategy for achieving our international climate finance targets, which involve more than doubling our funding for developing countries to €225 million annually by 2025. This commitment was made in 2021 by my colleague the Tánaiste at COP26 in Glasgow. Since 2020, we...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment to a very key role at COP29, namely a senior COP presidency role co-leading negotiations on climate adaptation. While that is somewhat tangential to what we are discussing here, it is also very closely related. One of my key concerns relates to how we treat climate finance, the €225 million that we are making available and the need to...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: This is very rare, but I disagree with the Deputy. Climate finance is overseas development aid. It fits absolutely within international definitions as well as the rules and spirit of what overseas development aid is about. It is about protecting the most vulnerable. It is, as the Deputy said, bottom up. It is about building resilience. We are good at it in this country because we have a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am sure we can amiably agree to disagree on this point. I want to chase that 0.7% goal that we have set out. I know we are chasing a moving target in that our GDP is increasing and we have substantially, in real numbers, very much increased the type of funding we are making available through overseas development aid and climate finance. That said, I would like to keep the accounting...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Deputy's latter point. Public finance will be important, but it is going to be challenging because we in the developed world have to extend more and there should also be a broadening of contributors to that. We should be very careful here. Last Friday, I spoke to one of the leaders of one of the African states who is a real expert and a brilliant leader in the area. He...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Conservation (15 Oct 2024)
Energy Conservation
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Conservation (15 Oct 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: 53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the objectives for the awarding of community energy grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41377/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Conservation (15 Oct 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: I ask the Minister to outline the objectives for the awarding of community energy grants and to make a statement on the matter.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Conservation (15 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: The community energy grant scheme is part of the Government's national retrofit programme. It aims to upgrade groups of buildings to high energy efficiency and renewable energy standards across communities in an efficient and cost-effective way. Capital funding of €45 million is provided for the scheme this year. The primary objective of the scheme is to support and maximise the...