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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.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Postal Services (27 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I thank Deputy Stanton. An Post is a commercial State body with a mandate to act commercially. It has statutory responsibility for the State's postal service and the post office network. The Government is committed to a sustainable An Post and post office network, as a key component of the economic and social infrastructure throughout Ireland. In line with this commitment, my Department...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Postal Services (27 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response. I am sure he will agree with me that An Post is a very important institution or organisation in the State. It does great work, especially what it did over Covid. The work the postmen and postwomen who went out and linked with people who were isolated at that time did was hugely important. I draw the Minister's attention to the publicity post An Post...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Postal Services (27 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Coincidentally, I was only talking to one of my team earlier and we were raising a similar issue. My understanding is that the delivery of publicity post or direct mail cannot or does not operate within electoral boundaries in many instances. We were asking ourselves the question as to why that is the case because when it comes to An Coimisiún Toghcháin communications, it can. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Postal Services (27 Jun 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Go raibh maith agat, a Aire.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Postal Services (27 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: We have to work very closely with the company to help them towards a prosperous future.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Postal Services (27 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response. Certainly, it did come from small businesses. I am also aware of the electoral and boundary issues to which the Minister alluded. It seems that some of these publicity post zones were designed at the time the stagecoach was in vogue. They are quite unwieldy. I am not sure if other colleagues in the House would agree with me but they do not seem to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Postal Services (27 Jun 2024)

Martin Kenny: There is one comment I want to make about An Post in the context of its parcel service. The Minister mentioned it as well. Every road in the country we go down, we see nothing but couriers delivering all kinds of stuff. They are all private businesses and they are all obviously able to compete and make money. It seems very strange to me that An Post cannot be in that field and cannot be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Postal Services (27 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: First, direct mail is a very good, profitable and important business for An Post and a very good marketing mechanism. Therefore, I agree with the Deputy. That should be an area in which we hopefully will see further expansion. Regarding the route networks, I do not think they go back to the stagecoach but I remember when we were establishing the Eircode system that this network is based...