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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I have a couple of questions. I refer to some of the language around the €200 and its relationship with VAT. To be clear, households can expect to see a reduction of a total of €200 three times. It will be one hundred and eighty-whatever euro plus VAT. It will be a total of €200. The last time around, there was a switch in relation to VAT in the middle of it and...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Will it be spread evenly spread? The Minister has heard me make this point previously. Some local authorities are for a range of reasons more enthusiastic, but also better placed or better resourced initially, to take advantage of these opportunities. Will it be evenly spread or how will the funding be allocated?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I do not see where the large energy user rebalancing subvention is accounted for. It is a measure to reduce the cost of electricity bills on households. It is a measure the Minister brought in in 2010 and that has been in place up until a couple of weeks ago. According to reports, it involved €600 million on household bills over a decade. Where is that accounted for? When was it...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Will households will see the benefit of that tariff being lifted off?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I thought the point was it was levied on household bills to the benefit of large energy users.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: It would be worth the committee following up. I have written parliamentary questions and they have been referred to the CRU. The CRU is accountable to the committee. The detail on this is not entirely clear. In fairness, Ms Caroline O'Doherty from the Irish Independenthas highlighted it. Nobody has contradicted the point about €600 million over ten years. It warrants further...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I did not put that question to them.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I raise the issue of Garda resources in County Meath. We have the lowest number of gardaí per head of population, at one per 668 people. We have a joint policing committee meeting tonight in Ratoath, which is the largest town in Ireland without a Garda station. This is testament to a lack of investment. There has been an increase in crime and in the number of unsolved crimes. There...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I will speak in support of the amendment, which is necessary and important. This is another one of those anomalies where things that are left open sometimes result in those who are intended and entitled to receive a credit not receiving it. I want to add to the examples that have been given and detail the additional complexity that arises where there is a multi-unit facility with one MPRN...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I will support the amendment. We have articulated previously that the Government’s approach is not the one we would have taken. There are always strengths and weaknesses with universal measures, and a number of the weaknesses of this approach would not arise with the introduction of a cap on prices. There are particular weaknesses to this approach and many of them relate to the fact...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (12 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Where is the Minister? This question has been asked repeatedly. Taxi drivers, hauliers and the aviation sector have given up on him as Minister for Transport. We had a two-hour debate last week and he was not present for a single minute of it. This debate on public transport has been held repeatedly in the Chamber, but the Minister has been present for none of it. December is no time...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (12 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Will the Minister of State give a commitment that the contracts will not be extended if the necessary staffing complement is not in place? That commitment needs to be given.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (12 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: The poor standard of service provided by Go-Ahead is a huge issue and we can see that across the board. My colleagues here this morning have given their own accounts but, in truth, as my party's transport spokesperson, wherever Go-Ahead operates, I have heard of problems from Sinn Féin Deputies, Senators, councillors and local area representatives. It could be that the 184, 185, 45A,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Bodies (12 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 23. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the establishment, membership and remit of the cross-departmental acceleration taskforces (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50528/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 27. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the target number of attic and cavity wall insulation completions in 2022, 2023 and 2024. [50684/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 28. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated number of homes that require attic and cavity wall insulation upgrades. [50685/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (12 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the port capacity study is now complete; the date on which it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50511/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (12 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the National Ports Policy review will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50527/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (12 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) regarding the readiness of ports for the construction and installation of offshore wind; if he has considered the report and plans to ensure that Irish ports are ready to construct and install offshore wind farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50512/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (12 Oct 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 37. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which he intends to support Rosslare Port to become ready to act as a construction and installation port for offshore wind; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50513/22]