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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: What is the point about the just transition policy if everyone passes the buck? Mr. Carroll's Department is the line Department responsible for making sure that we have a just transition. We all knew that this was coming down the tracks for years, yet what do we see when two plants were closed prematurely but Ministers scrambling down to the midlands, money being made available in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: I imagine Mr. Carroll appreciates the difference between consultation and being involved in decision-making. What the Government is doing here with the just transition forum, with which there are difficulties as well - is that it is all about consultation. What we need, and what Deputy Eamon Ryan's Bill is trying to achieve, and what the trade unions are saying, is that the stakeholders...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: Mr. Carroll has made my point for me. It should have been established a long time ago. We are now asking these hard questions. It is our job to put those questions to officials and to deal with this because the preparations were not made and the strategies were not put in place earlier. It is not good enough to put it back on us and say that we cannot judge the Department on what is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: There is a money message-----

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Data (27 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: 178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of native woodland trees to be planted on former bogland in each of the years 2019 to 2022, by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42320/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Data (27 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: 179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of native woodland trees to be planted outside of former bogland in each of the years 2019 to 2022, by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42321/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Data (27 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: 180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of native woodland trees planted in each of the years 2007 to 2018, inclusive, by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42319/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Data (27 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: 181. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Sitka spruce trees planted in each of the years 2007 to 2018, inclusive, by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42318/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Warmer Homes Scheme (27 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: 218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated full-year cost of extending the warmer homes scheme to replacing single glaze windows; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49225/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (27 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: 219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated full-year cost of extending the better energy homes scheme to provide universal attic insulation and universal wall insulation in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49226/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (27 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: 220. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated full-year cost of a new recycling centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49227/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (27 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: 221. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost of the warmth and well-being pilot scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49228/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadcasting Sector (27 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: 222. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of public funding from his Department given to each of the directly funded licensed television and radio stations broadcasting here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49229/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Measures (27 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: 223. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he plans to move the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019 to Committee Stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49230/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Data (27 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: 239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers carried by each form of transport (details supplied); the amount in tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions produced by each of the forms of transport in each of the years from 2008 to the most recent year for which figures are available in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49224/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Just Transition Commissioner (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: 2. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role the just transition commissioner will have in matters pertaining to workers; the statutory powers the commissioner will have; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49218/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Just Transition Commissioner (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: The Acting Chairman always gives out to me. My question is on the powers and the role of the just transition commissioner. The Minister might be aware there was a lot of discussion on this at the Joint Committee on Climate Action yesterday. Concerns have been raised both at the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment, which is the Minister's line Oireachtas...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Just Transition Commissioner (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: The problem is the trade unions, including the head of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, are saying there is a real problem here. Whatever about the role of the just transition commissioner, Bord na Móna is not engaging with the trade unions and the workforce. The problem for all of us in here is we want to see a just transition policy, framework and architecture in place that work...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Just Transition Commissioner (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: The problem is the Minister is not genuinely listening to what the trade unions are saying. He should read the transcripts from when they were before the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment and the Joint Committee on Climate Action. They said the joint industrial relations council is not the way to deal with this. They do not have a difficulty with dealing...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Just Transition Commissioner (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: What if it does not?