Results 181-200 of 243 for speaker:Ciarán Ahern

Flood Relief: Statements (29 May 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I will put Labour Party environment spokesperson hat on and raise a specific issue with the Whitechurch flood relief scheme in Rathfarnham in my constituency of Dublin South-West. I do not think any of us would deny that some flood relief interventions were required for the Whitechurch stream. There was a serious incident of flooding on Whitechurch Road a number of years ago now. While it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (29 May 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I wish to raise water infrastructure and, in particular, issues that have been experienced by residents in Dargle Wood, Knocklyon. There has been a marked increase in water outages over the last few months. The residents have had eight separate outages since the beginning of this year alone, but such outages have been a persistent issue for years now. There have been 23 water outages in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (29 May 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I appreciate the acknowledgment from Uisce Éireann that the service over the Easter weekend was not up to scratch and not acceptable. It is really just not fair to be asking people to put up with these inevitable outages again and again between now and whenever the planned works take place. I appreciate that carrying out an upgrade on the pipes themselves is a more significant body of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Usage (10 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 102. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason, according to analysis from the Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland will only deliver a 23% reduction in emissions by 2030, not the 51% target in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021, or the 42% target in the EU effort sharing regulation; how the State plans to finance the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Usage (10 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: My question is the same. I am happy for the Minister to answer about how the gap is widening.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Usage (10 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: The Minister referred to moving faster and we agree with him. He mentioned 1990, 1995 and 2005 figures, but these are irrelevant. The only figures that we are concerned with in this House anymore are the 2018 base levels. We need a 51% reduction from them by 2030. We are miles away from it and we are getting further. Is the Minister worried about the gap between promise and delivery?...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Usage (10 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: Not only is the Government failing in this regard, it is also regrettably going backwards. Only last year, it was predicted that the State could reach 29% emission reductions. This year, it was reduced to 23% by the EPA. Our target for 2030 is that 80% of our energy will be renewable. The EPA is telling us that now only approximately 68% will be able to be renewable by 2030. When it...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the SNA review of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29471/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to reverse the decision to remove a teacher from the allocation of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29787/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (10 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm the specific rental period and facilities covered by a payment made to the Board of Management at a school (details supplied); to clarify the period to which the fee applies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29898/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (10 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 736. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department plans to designate hundreds of rivers, lakes and estuaries as 'heavily modified water bodies'; if this means the Department no longer intends to improve the water quality and environmental health standards of these sites and is essentially giving up on them; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Legal Cases (10 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 1019. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the second phase of the compensation scheme for survivors of the Stardust fire; when he expects payments to begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29635/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 1605. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to provide the shingles vaccine for free, given it has been shown to reduce the risk of developing dementia in older adults. [30444/25]

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I welcome the witnesses. I am not that familiar with the area. I am a Dublin TD and I am reading about it today. I have read all the statements that have been submitted. My conclusion is exactly the same as Deputy Whitmore's, which is to ask who is responsible for this and how have we got to this point where we know there has been a problem for 40 years. Presumably, those reports have...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I thank Mr. Cooney. That is good to hear, but even An Taisce has said that measures like the kind of extended buffer zones would be useful for phosphorus sediment and ammonia but not necessarily for nitrates. It said that the only highly ranked measure for nitrate mitigation is reducing the nitrate load, for example, through a reduction in livestock units per hectare. Have such...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: There is a mix of farm types.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I was interested to hear that this is Deputy Whitmore's most positive committee experience. I am a new TD, and this is my first time questioning people-----

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: We are starting at the top; that is great. Looking at the solutions in the CLEAR report and mentioned in the county council's statement, it struck me that a lot of solutions are already out there, many of which are fairly basic things such as fencing off watercourses, the provision of water troughs and so on. Presumably, some, if not a great deal, of this is already being done. How much...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 313. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a HSE directive to home carers prohibiting them from administering medicated cream (such as difene cream) to someone they are caring for; to explain the logic of what we understand is a change in policy; the reason patients are expected to administer medicated creams like this if they are unable to do so themselves, do not...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (12 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 213. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the State's plans for waste disposal given the country's operational landfill sites are almost at maximum capacity; to outline the Department's longer-term plans for waste disposal, including if any waste incineration plants are being planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30750/25]