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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (23 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the post-retrofit BER status of local authority homes retrofitted in 2022, and in Q1 2023, by area, in tabular form. [24492/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (23 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the guidance on improving energy efficiency in traditional buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24493/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (23 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 848. To ask the Minister for Health if he will agree to meet urgently with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) in an effort to agree to funding for a new rate on the Homecare Tender 2023 that reflects increased costs of care and that allows them to offer homecare staff a living wage, travel time and mileage costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24858/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: As a Deputy for County Meath and proud to be so, I welcome the Tánaiste’s comments on the dreadful attack in Navan and the solidarity extended. I welcome the same from the Taoiseach and across the political divide. It is echoed in the town of Navan, the county and across the country. I echo Deputy Doherty’s call for a comprehensive and appropriate response. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (18 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 65. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the arts funding provided to groups in County Meath in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11465/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Legislative Measures (18 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 73. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the short-term tourist letting Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11466/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (18 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 370. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will update the stillbirth registration process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23895/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (18 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 466. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 28 March 2023, the rationale for reducing the stillbirth registration criteria from 24 weeks to 23 weeks and 500 grammes to 400 grammes; the standards that guide this practice here and abroad; if consideration was given to the possibility of allowing all stillbirths to be registered should the parents wish to do...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: The windfall tax. Introduce a windfall tax.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Sectoral Emissions Ceiling: Minister for Transport (17 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister for attending. I will continue in a similar vein. Emissions reports have come out for the final quarter of last year and the World Meteorological Organization, WMO's, report is out today. They all point towards the need for a step change and if not increased ambition, increased action and delivery. We hear it from the CCAC and the Minister hears it the same way I do....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Sectoral Emissions Ceiling: Minister for Transport (17 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I ask the Minister to elaborate on the introduction of E10 fuels and the handling of that. There are reports in the media this morning of concern in various quarters regarding the implications of its introduction as well as the communications around it. It is important that people would be aware and would content themselves that it is a change that is coming and what it will mean for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: Will Mr. Fitzpatrick indicate whether there was any change in safety requirements in the period 2016 to 2019?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: Regarding the SIDs the north runway operated on the first day it opened, would they have been agreed with the IAA and assessed against safety standards?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: Did they meet the safety standards?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: Were the changed flight paths - the February SIDs - submitted to the IAA? I am wondering about the types of considerations the operator weighs up. Some of the query from the local community is around why one thing is being done but not another. People ask about option B, C, D and E. For example, is it the case that easterly departures are taking a different approach, with banking of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: The IAA does not adjudicate on that. Adjudication is on what is presented to the authority in terms of whether it meets the standard. If it meets the standard, the IAA says it meets the standard and that is it. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: Is it correct that all of the other considerations in terms of how things operate and other factors are for the DAA to decide