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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: I have it here.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: It has gone from 14,000 to 18,000.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: That is renewable electricity, the vast bulk of which is coming from wind farms nationally.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: Sorry, that is in relation to energy efficiency. It is a more efficient use of energy. I do not know why there was a drop and I will have to come back to the Deputy on it. I do not have an answer. However, we expect the outturn for 2017 to be up. I will come back to the Deputy because I honestly do not have an answer to that. Deputy Dooley asked me about electric vehicles and charging...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: To answer the Deputy's last question, we should not be putting fossil fuel systems into homes. The building regulations have been changed and are to change again in 2020.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: It is surprising to see that level of fossil fuel heating systems is going into new houses, unless a lot of it is on gas.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: Yes, but the intention would be to transition away from that. I am aware from personal experience - I would say many of my colleagues here from rural constituencies could verify this - that the vast majority of one-off houses that are being built are without fossil fuels or, at a minimum, with hybrid boilers. Few are done with anything other than that. I suspect quite a considerable...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: We have to look at the figures and we have not done that. As Deputy Eamon Ryan will be aware, when he was Minister we signed up to a 2020 target where we had not done the figures on it.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: When I have figures available to me and an assessment on that, my objective is to try to maximise the amount of renewables. Not even from a climate perspective but an energy security perspective, it makes far more sense to be putting investment in to sustainable long-term solutions that mean that our energy needs are met domestically rather than being imported. As Deputy Eamon Ryan will be...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: As Deputy Ryan knows with regard to the demands and projections relating to electricity, achieving 40% will be no mean feat based on where we are at the moment and some of the challenges that we have. As the Deputy knows, previous Governments took a decision to put all of their eggs in one basket with renewables and onshore wind. We all have plenty of experience of where that has led us to date.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: The purpose of programme F is to promote the protection of our natural environment, the health and well-being of our citizens and the transition to a resource-efficient circular economy in support of ecologically sustainable development, growth and jobs. The environment and waste management programme includes an allocation of €37.4 million towards staff costs, non-pay current as well...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: We have taken a number of initiatives on the sorting of waste. Over the course of the past year we agreed a uniform standard in the use of the green and blue bins. Across the country there is now a standard list of what can be put in a recycling bin. It took a considerable amount of work and we ran an initiative in that regard towards the back end of last year. We also ran through the...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: That is news to me. I know that in my part of the country there are wheelie bins that are the same as the blue and green bins. I am surprised to hear it and will investigate the matter on foot of the Deputy's comments. We need to encourage people in that regard as the primary objective is to try to reduce the amount of material being put into the black bin. We have introduced the revised...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: There are outlets for it, but in order for us to access many of the outlets, we need to present the recyclable material in a clean manner. It is important that householders would rinse out containers before they put them in the recycling bin and present cardboard that is clean. The pizza boxes must now go into the brown bin and not the recycling bin. There is a market for paper. We do not...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: Appropriations-in-aid are income receipts into my Department other than from the Exchequer. The vast majority of receipts, €222 million from a total of €238 million, relate to the transfer of the TV licence funds to RTÉ, TG4 and the BAI, along with the collection fee to An Post. The balance is made up of mining and petroleum income accounting for €8.8 million of...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: The environment fund was established by the Waste Management (Amendment) Act 2001 and comprises revenue generated from levies that were introduced in respect of plastic bags, currently 22 cent, and waste sent to landfill sites currently at €75 per tonne. The fund supports activities and schemes to reduce waste and to promote environmental protection and awareness. In 2017, income...

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (22 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: That makes two of us.

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (22 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. I will not recite poetry, although I will declare an interest to the extent that I have been eaten out of the bog by midges on many occasions. The village in which I was born is surrounded by bog. Incidentally, I hated every day I spent on the bog. Bord na Móna employs approximately 450 people in County Kildare. The company has...

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (22 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: The new chief executive officer, CEO, must come into place and I will have the same conversation with the new CEO that I had with his predecessors. For me it is a priority to maintain job numbers right across the midlands. I have made that crystal clear. As we transition away from fossil fuels into sustainable forms of fuel, it will remain a priority. That is why I was determined as a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Household Waste Collection Price Monitoring Group (22 Mar 2018)

Denis Naughten: I propose to take Questions Nos. 234 to 236, inclusive, and 238 to 240, inclusive, together. The charges applied by waste management companies are matters for those companies and their customers, subject to compliance with all applicable environmental and other relevant legislation, including contract and consumer legislation. Notwithstanding the above, I established a Household...