Results 241-260 of 280 for speaker:Ciarán Ahern

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 258. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychiatrists, by grade, based at Springfield/Tallaght primary care centre in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36461/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 259. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric ENT surgeons based at CHI Crumlin in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36462/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 260. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE public health nurses based at Kilnamanagh/Tymon primary care centre in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36463/25]

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I thank the Minister for coming in and engaging with us. I welcome the language he used in his opening statement, in being so frank that we are not on track to meet our first two carbon budgets and that this is removing any option of deferring action and forcing us to confront the gap between our ambition and delivery. While the language is welcome, we will see the colour of the...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: It was reported this week that it was sent to the Minister.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: On energy security and the report, we are being told we need to invest in our Defence Forces at the moment to increase the security of our territorial waters and things like that. I suppose one would query the reality of some of the perceived threats. I also want to talk about how the Minister will ensure the climate and gas demand conditions on any gas reserve will be transparently and...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: To follow up on that, private wires are relevant to data centres. In the Minister's proposals for private wires, will he ensure they will be used for sustainable energy only, particularly for large energy users? Going back to the CRU's policy on large energy users, it said it does not have a mandate, not even under section 15 of the climate Act, to require them to use sustainable...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: That is fair enough. The fear around some of these large energy users is that, in being required to create their own energy but not necessarily connect to our overall grid, that energy will come from non-renewable sources. That was the basis of my question and I hope the Minister will consider that.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: Very briefly, in light of the renewable heat obligation, RHO, that is coming down the tracks, has the Minister considered increasing the percentage of HVO or other renewable fuels to be used as part of that, rather than maintaining the current rate of 1.5% to 3%?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: The Minister will love this. I will go back to LNG. Can I get a sense of the Minister's decision-making process around that? He referred to an existing planning application. I will not ask him to talk about that. At the time, was the Minister advised that allowing for the State's strategic reserve could or would lead to planning applications for commercial LNG being revisited? Did the...

Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: All too often the State approaches litigation against it in the same way any private corporate entity would. It is a war of attrition against each individual plaintiff who dares to sue it. That approach must change, not least because it is hugely discriminatory against those who do not have the time, resources or mental fortitude to fight a case like that. We must also consider the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: Yesterday, Uisce Éireann announced that areas in 12 counties, from Donegal to Wexford, are officially suffering a water drought. This is at a time when we have seen tragic flash floods in Texas, wildfires outside Marseilles and an extended heatwave in many countries across Europe that is about to hit Ireland. Before I came in here, I got an alert on my phone from Met Éireann that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I am glad to hear about the Government's focus on accelerating what we are doing. However, the fact remains that we are not meeting our climate targets. While there was a 6% reduction in emissions in 2023, there was only a 2% reduction in 2024. The EPA is saying we are going backwards. This is because we are seeing significantly slower progress than needed on many fronts, like onshore...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I am conscious we are discussing domestic, sexual and gender-based violence on the day we learned George Gibney will be extradited from Florida to Ireland to face 79 charges of sexual offences against children. Gibney was a high-profile Irish Olympic swimming team coach in the eighties and nineties who abused his position of power and trust. He was previously charged with, but not tried...

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: Before I begin, I acknowledge the presence of Mr. David Ryan in the Public Gallery. Mr. Ryan and his brother Mark participated in an RTÉ radio documentary, which precipitated all of what we are speaking about today. The establishment of this commission of investigation is welcome. It is not before time. The scourge of child sexual violence in our schools and the abject failure of...

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

Ciarán Ahern: 221. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his priorities for Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39452/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Policy (15 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 222. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way in which he plans to address the €3.3 billion environmental investment gap identified in the latest European Commission Environmental Implementation Review country report for Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39453/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Recycling Policy (15 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 223. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his response to the fact that Ireland’s waste recycling rates have not improved for the past five years and are at risk of missing 2025 recycling targets; the steps he is taking to remedy the situation; the way in which he plans to improve Ireland’s circular use of materials rate, which stood at 2.3% versus...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (15 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 224. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeline for the phase-out of incineration in our waste management system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39456/25]