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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the energy security review will be published; the immediate actions that he will take to improve the State’s energy security and independence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that he opposed decoupling gas from electricity prices at the European Energy Council in October 2021; if he now supports the proposal to decouple gas from electricity prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45785/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Programmes (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding that Ireland has applied for under the REPowerEU programme; the projects for which the funding would be allocated towards; the maximum amount of funding that Ireland is entitled to under this programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46013/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 8 September 2022, if he will confirm that 3,678.966MW of renewable energy production is contracted under the renewable energy feed in tariff schemes, and is therefore not obliged to refund the Public Service Obligations if the wholesale electricity price is higher than the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated full-year revenue from introducing a price-cap on inframarginal generators in Ireland at a rate of €180 per megawatt hour, compared to current wholesale electricity prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45855/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the work of the District Heating Steering Group that was formed under the Climate Action Plan 2021; and if this group is examining ways in which residential units can exit district heating systems that are subject to commercial energy rates. [45932/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps that his Department can take to mitigate the gas price increases that are being experienced by some Approved Housing Bodies and their tenants who are paying commercial energy rates as a result of a district heating system. [45931/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a list of reports used, and consultants availed of, in the preparation of the sectoral emission ceilings, broken down by the reports used for each sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45976/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish all of the modelling and economic analysis used in the preparation of the sectoral emission ceilings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45977/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reports used and consultants availed of in the preparation of the sectoral emission ceiling, by sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45979/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Reports (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish the McKinsey Report on the cost of decarbonisation up to 2050; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45978/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Reports (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45981/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide clarity on the mandatory retirement age of both school bus drivers and school bus escorts who work on the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45968/22]

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: We have an energy and security crisis because of gross mismanagement by successive Governments, particularly in the last decade. Principally, therefore, the responsibility lies with the Fine Gael party, it having been a continuing feature of Governments in that period. There has been gross mismanagement. This is a matter of energy supply and demand. Those Governments rolled out the red...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taxi Regulations (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 1. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out the efforts he is making to ensure the sustainability and viability of the taxi sector; if he will abandon or extend by five years the ten-year rule; if he will relax constraints preventing the transfer of plates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46549/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taxi Regulations (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I want to ask the Minister about the efforts he is making to ensure the sustainability and viability of the taxi sector; if he will abandon or extend by five years the ten-year rule; if he will relax constraints preventing the transfer of plates; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taxi Regulations (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: There has been a welcome U-turn on the ten-year rule. We have discussed this on a number of occasions in the Chamber and in the committee. I believe there was intransigence on the part of the responsible authorities, which flew in the face of the obvious. I welcome that there has been a U-turn and that there is a consultation, which I hope will come to a successful conclusion. An...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taxi Regulations (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I hope it is introduced but it is a U-turn. A number of months ago when I raised the issue with the Minister, he could not have been more categoric in his opposition to it, despite the fact that at the time taxi drivers right across the country were shouting from the rooftops about the impending crisis. The job of the Taxi Advisory Committee is to advise. The NTA told us yesterday that it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 3. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which he intends to address poor service standards, including no-shows and poor punctuality, on many bus routes operated by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46550/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: How does the Minister intend to address poor service standards, including no-shows and poor punctuality, on many bus routes operated by Go-Ahead Ireland? Will he make a statement on the matter?