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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on how quickly the food sector will be enabled to remove single-use plastic; if the circular economy Bill can be strengthened further in relation to different types and uses of plastics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18849/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I would like to ask the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, his views on how quickly the food sector will be enabled to remove single-use plastics and if the circular economy Bill can be strengthened further in relation to different types and uses of plastics.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. Single-use plastics represent one of our biggest environmental challenges and their rapid increase in production has overwhelmed our world's ability to recognise the problem. The price we now pay for whatever small convenience single-use plastics provided to us by the food sector has led to a throwaway culture where we now see plastic...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: As an inner city representative, I would like to touch on a related but very important topic, which is the privatisation of waste collection services. It simply has not worked and I would like to see the re-municipalisation of waste collection services. In my constituency of Dublin Central, this would mean bringing waste collection back under the control of Dublin City Council, with the aim...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to ensure Ireland delivers on the 5 GW target for offshore wind; if Ireland needs to be even more ambitious in order to support Europe weaning itself off fossil fuels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18848/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: The Minister touched on this issue in some of his replies to previous questions, but I will ask him about the steps he is taking to ensure Ireland delivers on its 5 GW target for offshore wind energy. Should we be even more ambitious to support Europe in weaning itself off of fossil fuels?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister for his reply. It is encouraging to hear of the volumes we are now generating in the context of what our European neighbours are doing. Ireland is well positioned in Europe to be a leading light in this regard. Of course, we should have been moving on this years ago and ramping up over the last decade. Our offshore wind resources are by far enough to comfortably...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I will touch on the issue of LNG. As a source of energy, it is not particularly cost-effective and it would be economically short-sighted to introduce it. We should also consider the impacts on communities of unconventional gas extraction methods such as fracking and the impacts on communities where LNG terminals are located, which is an issue we very rarely talk about in this country. The...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Chairman and our witnesses this morning, and Commissioner Logan also. There are many moving parts in some of the scrutiny of this and it can be difficult to understand the pathway that we are following here. I want to ask a little bit more about GSOC’s perspective on the proposed legislation but before I do I want to understand the numbers a little bit more in 2019, 2020,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: My apologies as I do not mean to cut across Commissioner Hume but when he mentions the time that it takes, what time does it actually take?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: What is the average time that would take?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I suspect that our witnesses could probably provide a ballpark figure for me. Are we talking six months, 12 months, 18 months or perhaps 24 months?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: When Commissioner Hume says "days", does he mean working days?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is important.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Commissioner Hume for those numbers, but within them, I still cannot tell how many complaints were upheld or resulted in a prosecution, as it refers to the ones that were actioned or, shall we say, closed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Does that data exist somewhere? Would the Minister for Justice, for example, have that data?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: The point I am making is that for somebody like me coming from the outside and looking at a large increase from 2020 to 2021, I am trying to understand if that is something to do with the relationship of An Garda Síochána with the community or is there some sort of operational issue here? Without knowing how many complaints were actioned and then upheld, or resulted in a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Out of how many cases and for what year do those figures relate?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I would hope to glean from these figures when going through them if, for example, referrals to GSOC under section 102 of the Act were considered to have been upheld or actioned? They may been the investigations that were opened in the public interest and if we add in some of those numbers, we are still looking at very low levels of complaints being upheld. If one adds them up, it is less...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That a very interesting number. Let us take 2020 and use those numbers. Of the 3,908 complaints, about 5% of those would have been investigated fully.