Results 2,061-2,080 of 2,154 for speaker:Emer Currie

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Budget 2026 (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 29. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the specific measures and initiatives to which the additional €157 million dedicated to circular economy measures in Budget 2026 will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55584/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Budget 2026 (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 30. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the specific measures and initiatives to which the additional €64 million dedicated to the Environmental Protection Agency in Budget 2026 will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55585/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Budget 2026 (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 33. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way in which the €3.5 billion released for ESB Networks and EirGrid in capital expenditure in Budget 2026 will assist in developing grid capabilities to support high-capacity electric vehicle charging hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55592/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of establishing a new shared mobility hub; the total funding provided in 2025 and to be provided in 2026 to support the roll-out of shared mobility hub; and the number of hubs expected to be in place by the end of 2026. [55593/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total funding in 2025 and to be provided in 2026, for the provision of e-bikes in urban centres around Ireland; and to list the urban centres where NTA-supported e-bikes are expected to be in place by the end of 2026. [55595/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total funding in 2025 and to be provided in 2026, for grants support for ZE vehicle take-up by households and businesses. [55594/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total funding in 2025 and to be provided in 2026, for roll-out of a nationwide EV charging network; and the progress in meeting EU targets for public EV charge points. [55596/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Budget 2026 (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the preferred locations for the 90 new EV recharging hubs and 192 new fast (100kW+) recharging points announced as part of Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55598/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to allocate funding to expand free travel for children under nine years to commercial bus operators under the 2026 PSO funding allocation of €940 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55599/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to increase public transport fares in 2026. [55600/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will extend the availability of the child Leap card to commercial bus services in line with the current policy for the young adult Leap card on commercial services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55601/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Budget 2026 (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the inclusion of commercial operators in free fare schemes is being considered under the 40% increase in the allocation for the operation of State-subsidised Public Service Obligation public transport services in Budget 2026. [55602/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to encourage the uptake of hydrotreated vegetable oil for commercial bus operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55603/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the routes that will be serviced by proposed two new BusConnects core bus corridors in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55615/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Funding (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff working in each of Revenue’s frontier management branches as of the end of September 2025; the level of funding allocated in 2025 for these staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55575/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Funding (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been an increase during 2025 in the number of x-ray scanners available to the Revenue Commissioners for detection of smuggling; and the plans for further investment in scanners in Budget 2026. [55577/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance the rules which apply to the setting of reduced VAT rates for categories of goods and services subject to a historic VAT derogation. [55583/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps the Revenue Commissioners will take to ensure that the electronic products tax is being paid on all eligible products; and if inspections will be carried out in retail premises who sell vaping products. [55604/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance if the retail licensing system will be used to inspect retailers and products for sale as a mechanism for helping to enforce the electronic products tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55605/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (15 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance the metric the Revenue Commissioners use to determine when stock supplied before 1 November is cleared from the market and the stock in the market which is liable for excise, considering that the Revenue Commissioners have confirmed that only stock first supplied after 1 November will be subject to excise tax, and not product already supplied; and if he...