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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government sets out our ambition to halve our carbon emissions over the course of the decade. The action we take in the coming years will be critical in order to address the climate crisis, which threatens our safe future on this planet. As Minister for Climate Action, I will lead on delivering our shared commitment to achieve an average 7% per annum reduction in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Budgets (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government - Our Shared Future - sets out the Government's response to the significant challenges facing the country. My Department is central to many of the transformative changes envisaged and commitments to be delivered over the five year lifetime of the Programme for Government include: - A National Clean Air Strategy - Seeking to accelerate the roll-out of the National...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government sets out our ambition to halve our carbon emissions over the course of the decade. The action we take in the coming years will be critical in order to address the climate crisis, which threatens our safe future on this planet. According to the Environmental Protection Agency ’s (EPA’s) National Inventory Report 2020, Ireland’s greenhouse...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: According to the Environmental Protection Agency ’s (EPA’s) National Inventory Report 2020, Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions reduced by about 1% between 2016 and 2018. The EPA projections, 2019-2040, published earlier this month indicate our 2020 emissions could be 2-4% below 2005 levels, and it is clear that Ireland will miss its 2020 target, and will need to avail of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I am committed to tackling the problems associated with single use plastics and my Department is working to transpose and implement EU Directive 2019/904, commonly referred to as the Single Use Plastics Directive, at the earliest possible date. The aim of this Directive is to tackle the ten single-use plastic products and fishing gear that together make up 70% of the marine litter found on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: European, national and regional waste management policy is predicated on the waste hierarchy as set out in Article 4 of the 2008 Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC), whereby the prevention, preparing for reuse, recycling and other recovery of waste are preferred options to the disposal or landfilling of waste. 26% of managed municipal waste (by weight) was sent to landfill in 2016...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI) in their Energy in Ireland - 2019 report have estimated that the share of electricity from renewable energy increased almost fivefold between 2005 and 2018 - from 7.2% to 33.2% - an increase of 26 percentage points over 13 years. The provisional figure for 2019 is 36.7%. The Programme for Government commits to taking the steps to deliver at...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The number of Electric Vehicles totally reliant on electricity propulsion (BEV - Battery Electric Vehicles) under current taxation at 30th June 2020 was 10,910 of which 10,183 were private vehicles. There were also a further 8,488 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles taxed which are capable of being propelled solely by electricity on shorter journeys. The Climate Action Plan has a target of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) is an auction-based scheme which invites renewable electricity projects to compete for a guaranteed price for the electricity they generate. The first of these renewable electricity auctions (RESS-1) will take place on the 21 July. There will be a series of auctions up to 2030 to deliver on Ireland's renewable electricity target of at least...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Supply Board (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: This is an operational matter for the Board and Management of ESB as regulated by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities and not one in which I, as Minister, have a statutory function. My Department did, however, contact ESB and I understand the position to be as follows. There have been a number of power outages on the medium voltage overhead line in the area recently, which I'm told...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Warmth and Wellbeing pilot scheme aims to objectively measure and validate the health and wellbeing impacts of improving the living conditions of vulnerable people living in energy poverty with chronic respiratory conditions. The scheme is a collaboration between my Department and the Department of Health and is jointly administered by the Health Service Executive and the Sustainable...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Cybersecurity Policy (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The National Cyber Security Centre, or NCSC, which is located within my Department, is the primary cyber security authority in the State, and has a number of roles, including leading on cyber security incident response and on the resilience and security of critical infrastructure. The National Cyber Security Centre had 21 staff in 2018, 23 in 2019 and has 24 to date in 2020, with a further...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Programme for Government (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government and the Climate Action Plan set highly ambitious targets for the number and depth of residential retrofits and heat pumps to be installed over the period to 2030. The targets are to retrofit 500,000 homes to a B2/cost optimal equivalent and install 400,000 heat pumps in existing buildings by 2030. A cross-Departmental Retrofit Taskforce has been established...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Consumer Protection (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 76 and 78 together. As the Deputy is aware, current Government advice to people is to avoid all non-essential travel overseas, based on the advices of our public health experts. As things stand in law, air passenger rights are protected by Regulation (EC) No. 261/2004, which covers the rights of passenger in instances of cancellations. However, if a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Chicago Convention is the main treaty that governs international civil aviation. Article 5 of the Convention makes provision for overflights and stops for non-traffic purposes, including for refuelling, for aircraft from Contracting States engaged in non-scheduled flights. Both Ireland and the United States are party to this Convention. This provision is implemented in Irish law in the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads (RLR) is the statutory responsibility of each local authority, in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from local authorities' own resources supplemented by State road grants. The initial selection and prioritisation of works to be funded is also a matter for the local...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Deputy is aware that the Programme for Government – Our Shared Future sets out an ambitious and wide-ranging set of commitments in relation to walking and cycling, including for this effort to be supported by an increased multi-annual budgetary allocation which would amount to some €1.8 billion over the lifetime of the Government. I look forward to working with the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The operation of the Driver Testing Service is the statutory responsibility of the Road Safety Authority. I have therefore referred the Question to the Authority for direct reply to this individual’s case. I would ask the Deputy to contact my office if a response has not been received within ten days. While this is an operational matter for the RSA, it is my understanding that on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The operation of the Driver Testing Service is the statutory responsibility of the Road Safety Authority. I have therefore referred the Question to the Authority for direct reply. I would ask the Deputy to contact my office if a response has not been received within ten days. While this is an operational matter for the RSA, I understand the Authority, in reopening driver testing...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Noise Pollution (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Climate, Energy, Communications , Transport, Tourism and Sport, I have responsibility for overall policy and securing Exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015, the planning, design and construction, including noise mitigation measures, for individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in...