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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Generation (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: 16. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when Ireland will transpose the Renewable Energy Directive (EU) 2023/2413 (RED III); and the interim measures which are in place to ensure renewable energy projects are not delayed due to this transposition being overdue. [57541/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Generation (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: 17. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether a national policy framework is being developed to facilitate the lifetime extension of older wind farms and repowering where relevant. [57542/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: 138. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need, by area, in each of the years 2020 to 2025; the number overdue for completion; the number completed with a service statement, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57503/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: 139. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of assessments of need completed by each children's disability network team, by area, in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [57504/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: 140. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average waiting times for assessments of need completed by each children's disability network team, by area, in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [57505/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: I thank all the witnesses for their presentations. We heard from all them that the built environment is responsible for 37% of total emissions in Ireland. There is a challenge in the context of continuing to construct 300,000 homes while also meeting the climate targets that have been set. With the increase in construction, dealing with the carbon emissions is always going to be a big...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: What steps can be taken to narrow or address the skills gap?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: What about the decarbonisation of building sites? What steps can be taken there to accelerate that, if it was up to the witnesses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: We heard a couple of weeks ago from, I think, representatives from the road haulage association about the carbon tax on diesel and hydrotreated vegetable oil. Something should be done about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: What if the VAT was amended?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: Could there be more incentives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: The challenges with retrofitting and slower take-up than what we might expect have been mentioned. I find particularly that lower- and middle-income families do not have the money to pay the cost upfront before they get the grants. How do the witnesses think this could be addressed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: More incentives and making it easier for people to take it up. Is that it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: The State needs to get more involved. Is that what Mr. Brownlee is saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: That is the State getting involved more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: There was a very successful public scheme in Tralee going back 12 or 13 years to heat an area with 200 houses with wood chip. It was one of the first schemes of its kind. As Dr. Kinnane is here, I will ask him about refurbishing public buildings. Have courthouses throughout the country been looked at? There has been tendency in recent years to move to greenfield sites and build new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: There was a big campaign in Skibbereen to maintain the courthouse there and it was kept. In Dr. Kinnane's experience, does it usually end up being cheaper to renovate than to build on the outside of towns?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Pa Daly: That would be Dr. Kinnane's preference.