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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of reports used and consultants availed of in the preparation of the sectoral emission ceiling for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36372/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing 10,000 extra places on the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36489/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of purchasing one new school bus for the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36490/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 287. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that constella 290mg is not covered by the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36466/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 345. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a list of reports used and consultants availed of in the preparation of the sectoral emission ceiling for agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36373/22]

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I have a number of questions. There is something Orwellian about the term "savings" here. They are missed targets in the national broadband plan and retrofitting. We were told that carbon taxes would be ring-fenced to retrofit homes and protect people from fuel poverty. That carbon tax is being siphoned off to pay for backup electricity generated by fossil fuel. That demand is induced by...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister. Has the Minister clarity about the extra cost of a residential electricity bill on the back of legislation? The question was raised on Committee Stage. I refer to the €350 million bill. I know there were differences of opinion. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities pointed to a figure of €40 for each residential bill. Has the Minister confirmed...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Is this part of the Fit for 55 package and the EU's introduction of measures relating to transport and buildings?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I presume it does not intend for us to spend the funding on fossil fuel infrastructure.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I take the Minister's point on moves at a European level but this seems to be a significant departure from stated Government position in relation to the ring-fenced nature of the Irish carbon tax to fund retrofitting, agricultural schemes and address fuel poverty. This funding was allocated to retrofitting and is being moved to fund emergency fossil fuel-powered electricity. Was that...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: What do the Government and the Taoiseach mean when they say "ring-fenced"?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: In this transaction, is the Minister not taking that hypothecated, ring-fenced funding and, because it is unspent for whatever reason, moving it to somewhere entirely inappropriate for it to be spent? This move will drive people further into fuel poverty rather than protect them. They will be paying for this through taxes in the first instance, with carbon tax as part of that, and on their...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Does the funding not roll over into next year?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: To be clear, there is a commitment. It is agreed, as I understand it, in the Government that the increases in the carbon tax would be ring-fenced for these purposes. Now we have, today and next week in this transaction, that so-called ring-fenced funding being redirected to fund-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Is that not exactly what it is doing? If the money is ring-fenced this year for retrofitting, not being spent, being taken and spent elsewhere, it is not the same money that was ring-fenced. The Minister said you cannot roll it over into next year.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: But you are not doing it anyway.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I do not think it is an abstract argument for those people paying carbon tax. The Minister knows my party's position in relation to it and criticisms of it, one of which is there are no alternatives for people paying carbon tax. Now they are told some of the carbon tax they pay is not going to retrofitting, agricultural schemes or to offset fuel poverty, but to the funding of emergency...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (6 Jul 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: We are not opposed to the principle of it but when alternatives are there, and this is a perfect case of-----