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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I have a couple of quick follow-up questions in respect of a number of areas of responsibility within the Minister's Department. I have not heard mention of alumina, which is an enormous source of emissions within the industrial and commercial sectors. Is there a plan in the Department for emissions reductions in that respect? Fluorinated gases, F-gases, are also significant in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: It was F-gases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: The Minister might look again at the issue of F-gases because while the EPA might be responsible for the accounting, the bodies generating it are industry and, as I understand it, semiconductor manufacturers. The Minister might revisit this matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: That is no problem. My final question is on advertising standards and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC. My colleague, Senator Boylan, has raised successfully the issue of greenwashing. We must be increasingly aware of this in the time ahead. There have been incidents. Members, particularly Senator Boylan, have raised issues through complaints. The Advertising...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: What about the CCPC?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (21 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he is taking or planning to take to ensure the re-use of construction and demolition waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8840/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (22 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 235. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to allowing parents and carers use the National Treatment Purchase Fund to access private assessments and services, given the ongoing challenges in children's disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9164/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (23 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 101. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he is taking to improve the work permit process for sectors of identified shortage; if there is dedicated focus on the potential of those seeking asylum here to address some of that shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8320/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Authorities (23 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number of NTA-funded active travel officer roles filled and vacant in each local authority; the number of these roles filled through internal transfers within the local authority system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9368/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 269. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures that are in place to ensure that persons who worked in more than one qualifying employment during the relevant timeframe to receive the pandemic special recognition payment will receive the full payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9367/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Minister for Transport (22 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister for attending the meeting on pre-legislative scrutiny today and for bringing things to this point. There is still some way for the legislation to go. The Minister made a personal commitment when we dealt with the last legislation to address the issue of the quorum of the MCIB and he was aware the committee had wider concerns that needed to be addressed. He committed to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Minister for Transport (22 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: How does the Minister see it proceeding? The committee is also on a timeline In the context of pre-legislative scrutiny, and the clerk has us well informed on it. We will get it done. When does the Minister think we will see a Bill? Will it be a priority for the Minister to bring it before the Houses? When might we expect to see the unit up and running? Has it been budgeted for at this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Minister for Transport (22 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: There can be unforeseen hurdles. We know the way the wheels turn. I would like an assurance, and I believe I have it, from the Minister that when we get through the legislative process, we will not have to wait for another budgetary round. If we do, we will lose a year. This can move smoothly through the processes and come into being .

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2022: Minister for Transport (22 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (28 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures being taken to ensure that energy companies reduce their prices for customers to reflect the significant reduction in wholesale energy costs; if he has met with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities in this regard; the date on which windfall taxes will be introduced; the amount they are expected to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (28 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I am disappointed the senior Minister is not here. It is not the first time this has happened. I think he has ten advisers at this stage and he does not seem to be able to line up his diary. We can reschedule these questions. They are rescheduled regularly. I am disappointed that he is not here and that neither he nor his ten advisers gave us the courtesy of telling us he would not be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (28 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: That is an incredible response. People will endure and will get on with it but they hate this idea of "we are all in it together". The truth is that we are not all in it together. People hate a double standard and they hate inequity and unfairness. The price of energy is being hiked, but at the same time energy company profits are going through the roof. Energy companies are reporting...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (28 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I want to ask the Minister of State a straight question and I hope he will give me a straight answer. When will the windfall tax be legislated for, when it will be introduced, what period will it apply for and how much will it bring in? I noticed that initial estimates were in the region of €1.9 billion and the lower estimates are in the region of €200 million to €300...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Infrastructure (28 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he will take to maximise delivery of solar photovoltaic, PV, systems on homes, schools, farm sheds, and community/sporting, commercial and public buildings in 2023; his targets in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9984/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Infrastructure (28 Feb 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I want to ask the Minister of State the measures he will take to maximise the delivery of solar PV systems on homes, schools, farm sheds and community, sporting, commercial and public buildings in 2023; his targets in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter.