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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Infrastructure (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: As the Minister will be aware, Mr. Kieran Mulvey, the just transition commissioner, outlined in one of his reports the pristine condition of the two power stations in Lanesborough and Shannonbridge. Both of those power stations have a remaining lifespan of ten years. The Minister has asked the ESB to carry out a review of the feasibility of retaining the plants for some other energy...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Infrastructure (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: Therein lies the problem. The board and management of the ESB are responsible for the future use of these two power plants. As the Minister knows, the report will recommend their demolition, which is wasting €176 million that Irish electricity customers right across the country have already paid towards their cost. There are alternative options. I said here last December that three...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Infrastructure (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: If the ESB is so committed to the midlands, why would it go to the regulator to seek to recoup the €5 million it paid over to the just transition fund expecting electricity customers across the country to pay for it? That is the commitment of the ESB to the midlands. All the local public representatives were told last month that the report will recommend that the two plants be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Infrastructure (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: There are no jobs in battery storage

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Infrastructure (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: Yet the data centres are still being built in Dublin.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: 63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of Ireland's first clean air strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44950/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: 67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the discussions he has held with stakeholders regarding the future use of the West Offaly power station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44951/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: 78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the impact that data centres will have on electricity demand in Ireland over the next decade; the policy interventions planned as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44949/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: 109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the impact that the National Broadband Plan will have on Ireland's carbon emissions' profile; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44948/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Measures (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: 185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the geothermal energy development Bill; when it is likely to be advanced further; the reason for the delay in advancing the Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13137/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce legislation to allow banks to differentiate between customers in different sectors specifically to exempt solicitor client accounts from negative interest rate charges; the discussions he has had with the Governor of the Central Bank on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12525/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: 319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress to date on the €7 million investment in the removal of the pinch points on the River Shannon which will address the scale of summer flooding in the Shannon Callows; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12785/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Economic and Social Council (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: 416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has read the recent NESC report on housing. [12564/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: National Economic and Social Council (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: 620. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has read the recent NESC report on the self-employed. [12564/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: 916. To ask the Minister for Health when Sativex will be approved for use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13167/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: 917. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate repair clinics for upper prosthetic limbs at Merlin Park Hospital, Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13169/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (10 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: 1006. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 485 and 486 of 10 December 2020, the out-turn at year end; the meat plants concerned for the breach of trim regulations and the dates; the number of times plants have had to revert to mechanical grading in 2022; the breaches of carcass trim, the dates and plants involved; and if he will make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roadmap to Social Inclusion: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: I welcome all the Members. At the outset, I remind members of the joint committee that in order to have a duly constituted meeting and for it to proceed members are required to join the meeting remotely from within the defined precincts of Leinster House. I ask members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones as they interfere with the recording system. As members are participating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roadmap to Social Inclusion: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister of State. He has given us a very comprehensive outline of the various strands. That the Minister of State responsible is chairing the social inclusion steering group clearly shows the determination of the Government. The first member who has indicated a desire to speak is Senator Burke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roadmap to Social Inclusion: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: Does the Minister want to come back in?