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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: If there was a proposal to redesign it to make it independent, who would that come from? Would it be the regulator?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: Would it be the IAA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I wish to discuss PFAS. I am my party's environmental spokesperson. Mr. Jacobs referenced the DAA's environmental plans. It was reported that there were PFAS on site in 2016 and were buried on site. Dublin Airport sits within a wider environment in Dublin, and there are SPAs, SCAs and the impact on water bodies. How are PFAS managed on site? What is the responsible authority? Is it the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: Is that plan publicly available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Long-Duration Energy Storage: Discussion (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. To pick up on the specific ask for the need for investment signals and an auction system or something along those lines, similar for wind and solar, the witnesses made a submission at the back end of last year. They are waiting to hear more and obviously, there are imminent deadlines there. Is there an indication of work going on or have they...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. Under subhead A5, which relates to the carbon fund, there does not seem to be an allocation for 2024. Is that fund now being managed in a different way from how it was previously managed? Has it been subsumed into something else?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I also have a question on the just transition.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: Deputy Bruton asked about the just transition fund. I am interested in the answer to his question on the just transition commission. I want to acknowledge that it is very significant increased funding for the fund. There is in the region of 106 different projects. I have a question regarding the oversight of managing them. There were specific objectives or areas of focus within those...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: Specifically on B4, residential and community retrofit programmes, I have received replies to parliamentary questions on the costs associated with the average retrofit costs bringing units to a B2 rating. There appears to be a very significant difference within the one-stop-shop service. I do not know if the Minister has the figures in front him. The average cost in 2022 was around...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: Everything I am talking about here is to B2 standard or higher. My point is whether there has been a cross-comparison between schemes and the one-stop-shop which is significantly more expensive and year on year, it has been increasingly expensive. I take on board the points the Minister has already made but I am asking him to get under the bonnet of that and see what the contributory factor...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I have another question about programme B, or if others want to come in on-----

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I would like just an update on the energy security review. When might we expect to see it, and is it factored into these costings? Potentially, a significant investment is required on behalf of the State.

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that Ireland has some of the most expensive electricity prices in the European Union (EU), two-thirds higher than the average, with the typical Irish household paying nearly €700 more per year; regrets that: — the Government refused to apply a stronger, more effective windfall tax which tackled profits when they were at their...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank Deputies for their contributions over the course of the debate. I am disappointed the Government has tabled a countermotion. I do not accept its rationale or argument. We have to look at the evidence, which is that large numbers of people are in arrears with their electricity bills, with 10% of domestic and commercial electricity customers and 25% of domestic and commercial gas...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the national student accommodation strategy; when an update will be published; the measures he is taking to ensure students from Meath who are unable to stay in the family home are able to find suitable accommodation at the beginning of the new academic year; the measures he is taking to ensure there is adequate supply of suitable...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: This is a significant issue in my county, Meath, particularly for people travelling from north Meath into Dublin, for example. Some people are lucky enough to be able to live at home but they are denied the independence of living away from home during their college years. The issue above all else, though there are others, such as transport connections, is the issue of affordability. What...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: It is just a statement of fact that there is nowhere near the necessary accommodation to meet demand. The accommodation that is available is not in any way affordable to people. The Minister talked about his experience of being in digs in the city of Cork. In my college experience in the city of Dublin 25 years ago, it was digs, private rented and shared accommodation, all on a maintenance...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the professions of planning; his plans, if any, to introduce measures to increase the number of planners who graduate with environmental and climate expertise; if he has worked with an organisation (details supplied) to increase the number of planners who graduate with environmental and climate expertise; the number of planners who...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the work his Department is carrying out with the National Waste Collection Permit Office to examine whether fair and transparent pricing is consistent in the markets and how that information is disclosed to customers; for a breakdown of dates on which he and his officials have met with the NWCPO; when...