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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment has responsibility for the sectoral emissions ceilings for both industry and commercial buildings. My Department, through schemes administered by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), provides various supports to enterprises, which can assist the sectors (including SMEs) in increasing their energy efficiency and lowering...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Tax Code (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 88 and 109 together. On 22 November, 2022, the Government approved the introduction of measures to address windfall gains in the energy sector through the implementation of Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices. The Government approved the placing of a cap on market revenues in the electricity sector...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 strengthens the role of Local Authorities for effective climate action. It sets out a statutory requirement for each Local Authority to prepare a Climate Action Plan within 12 months from when I formally issue a request to the sector to begin the preparation of such plans. I will issue this request shortly. In order to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Climate Action Plan includes a target to reduce emissions from the residential sector by retrofitting the equivalent of 500,000 homes to a building energy rating (BER) of B2/cost optimal and installing 400,000 heat pumps in existing homes by the end of 2030. In February last year, the Government launched a package of supports to make it easier and more affordable for homeowners to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Bodies (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I have appointed Mr. Tom Barry and Mr. Seamus Neely under Section 18(5) of the Inland Fisheries Act 2010 to perform the functions of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) pending the appointment of a new, full Board through the statutory appointments process, with the support of the Public Appointments Service (PAS). This ensures that IFI is in a position to continue to perform its functions...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The 2020 Programme for Government committed to a target of 5GW of installed offshore wind capacity in Ireland’s maritime area by 2030 and made a commitment to develop at least 30GW floating wind beyond 2030. In addition, in 2022, the Government agreed to target the delivery of an additional 2GW of offshore wind for the production of green hydrogen in order to create the necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Bodies (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) submitted its draft 2021 Financial Statements to the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG) on 31 March 2022 in accordance with Section 46(3) and (5) of the Inland Fisheries Act 2010. I understand that the C&AG has not yet finalised the Audit Report on the 2021 Financial Statements and is engaging further with the organisation on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Commission of Regulation of Utilities which has statutory responsibility to ensure security of supply, has the duty to monitor electricity supplies and to take sure measures as it considers necessary to protect the security of supply. It is assisted in its role by EirGrid, the electricity transmission system operator, and my Department. The CRU currently has a programme of actions...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: North-South Interconnector (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The new North-South Interconnector, which will allow for the flow of 900 MW electricity between Ireland and Northern Ireland, will be critical for improving the operation of the all-island Integrated Single Electricity Market (ISEM). It will also help to facilitate the achievement of the goal of generating up to 80% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2030. A resilient and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Quality (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: On 31 October 2022 I introduced new regulations on the sale of solid fuels for domestic heating in Ireland. They introduced minimum standards that apply across all solid fuels, to ensure that the most polluting can no longer be made available on the Irish market and to assist the public in transitioning to less polluting alternatives. My Department has engaged extensively and continues to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Climate Action Plan includes a target to reduce emissions from the residential sector by retrofitting the equivalent of 500,000 homes to a building energy rating (BER) of B2/cost optimal and installing 400,000 heat pumps in existing homes by the end of 2030. In February last year, the Government launched a package of supports to make it easier and more affordable for homeowners to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: My Department is working with the Department of Finance, the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, the Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland, the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund to develop a residential retrofit loan guarantee scheme. The scheme is part of Ireland’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan and will be co-funded by the EU Recovery and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: There are 81,507 premises located in County Cork that will be passed by National Broadband Ireland with high-speed gigabit fibre broadband as part of the State Intervention under the National Broadband Plan. I am advised by National Broadband Ireland (NBI) that, as of 17 February 2023, over 129,400 premises can order or pre-order a high-speed broadband connection across 26 counties, with...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As of now, registrations of both producers and retailers are in line with the projections of the scheme operator, Re-turn. Producers representing about 70% of the beverage market, by volume, and 135 retailers have completed the first stage of the registration process.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Last year saw the NBP network build programme achieve real momentum and this momentum is set to continue this year. As of 17 February, over 129,400 premises can order, or pre-order a high-speed broadband connection across 26 counties, with over 118,600 premises passed across 26 counties and available for immediate connection. Connections to the NBP network have a minimum speed of 500 Mbps and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: Ireland will contribute to the reduction of methane emissions globally as outlined in Climate Action Plan 2023, in line with our national climate targets and the Global Methane Pledge. The Global Methane Pledge, agreed at COP26, involves over 100 countries contributing to a collective effort to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030, with 2020 as a baseline. Ireland can...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 committed Ireland to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 51% by 2030. The carbon budgets and sectoral emissions ceilings adopted under the Act require the electricity sector to reduce emissions by the equivalent of 75% by 2030 compared to 2018. The 2023 Climate Action Plan sets out the roadmap and actions to deliver on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) is one of the flagship Government policies to help deliver on the Climate Action Plan 2023 target of 80% renewable electricity by 2030. Of the seven successful community projects in RESS 1, four projects remain within the scheme. Of the ten successful community projects in RESS 2, one project has withdrawn to date. Through my...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Communities Energy Grant is part of the Government's National Retrofit Programme aimed at upgrading building stock and facilities to high standards of energy efficiency and renewable energy usage, thereby reducing fossil fuel usage, energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions. The Scheme supports cross-sectoral and community-oriented partnership approaches that deliver energy savings to a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (28 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Climate Action Plan includes a target to reduce emissions from the residential sector by retrofitting the equivalent of 500,000 homes to a building energy rating (BER) of B2/cost optimal and installing 400,000 heat pumps in existing homes by the end of 2030. An Exchequer investment of €8 billion to 2030 has been ring fenced to support the achievement of these targets. The...