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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Will the move in terms of offsetting the increase in the biofuels obligation impact on the monies that will go the National Oil Reserves Agency levy, but make their way into the climate action fund?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: On subhead B4, when will homeowners start to get credit? When will the export tariff scheme be in place and operational? On the same subhead, the targets for retrofits were 21,544 in 2021 and 19,400 in 2022. I ask the Minister of State to speak to that, please. On outputs, the target for the number of lower income households provided with energy efficiency upgrades is lower for this...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Many people have already availed of an SEAI grant to do shallow retrofits. A pensioner who had cavity wall insulation done ten years ago cannot go back to the SEAI now for a grant for attic insulation because of the one-visit rule. Will that rule be removed? Will such persons be able to avail of a further grant for, say, attic insulation?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Did the Minister of State pick up on the question on sustainable energy communities and the expansion of that scheme? I do not see it anywhere in the documentation or in the Minister of State’s opening statement.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I am making the point that they are not entirely related to retrofitting. We are waiting for a national retrofitting programme later but we are also waiting to hear on the SECs. Is it the same answer in regard to the LEAF funding that has been referenced?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: The final question was in regard to the fund for the €100 payment for electricity costs. Where exactly is that coming from and what is its impact on other areas?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: When is that decision likely to be made?

Green Hydrogen Strategy Bill 2022: First Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to require the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to draft and publish a hydrogen strategy within six months of the passing of this Act. I welcome the opportunity to introduce the Bill, along with my colleagues Deputies Réada Cronin, Johnny Guirke and Maurice Quinlivan. Hydrogen generated from...

Green Hydrogen Strategy Bill 2022: First Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following: “(e) The Minister shall make provision in the Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme to identify those who own holiday homes or multiple properties and put in place a mechanism to ensure such individuals do not receive more than one electricity costs emergency benefit payments. (f) The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (15 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I raise the case of the murder of Una Lynskey in 1971 at Porterstown Lane outside Ratoath in County Meath in my constituency. It was the first and oldest case covered in the recent RTÉ "Crimes and Confessions" programme. The case destroyed a number of families. Ms Lynskey was 19 years old when she was murdered. The case remains unresolved. The Garda investigation into the murder of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (15 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. It outlines a series of updates on what is different now from all those years ago. It outlines what the route forward is not, but it does not outline what the route forward is. The option of a statutory investigation needs to be on the table and it should be actively explored. If it is not a tribunal of inquiry, it needs to be something that...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the seven successful community projects in RESS-1; if all the projects are still progressing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7646/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 223. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that disincentives for landlords not retrofitting their houses were not included in the new National Retrofit Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8166/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 224. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated number of households that will apply for the attic and cavity wall insulation scheme in the new National Retrofit Scheme in each of the years 2022 to 2026; the estimated budget for the programme in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8167/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 225. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated number of households that will apply for the deep retrofit scheme in the new National Retrofit Scheme in each of the years 2022 to 2026; the estimated budget for the programme in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8168/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 226. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he examined the inclusion of a household income cap in the new National Retrofit Scheme; if so, the income caps that were examined by his Department; the estimated number of households that would be excluded under each income cap if the cap was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8169/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 227. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated carbon reduction savings made by upgrading 100,000 homes under the new attic and cavity wall insulation scheme in the new National Retrofit Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8170/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Yield (15 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of motor tax raised in each of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7429/22]