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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (19 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...from waste water treatment plants can lead to organic and nutrient enrichment with consequent impacts on dissolved oxygen levels and biological communities Further Details are available from the EPA website: www.epa.ie/our-services/monitoring--assessment/assessment/ir elands-environment/water/ Harvest of rivers below their conservation limit is not permitted as this would increase...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Regulations (18 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: My Department does not compile or maintain statistics in relation to the levels of enforcement actions by Local Authorities under the Solid Fuels Regulations. Local Authorities report this information as part of their enforcement activities under environmental legislation to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on an annual basis. Details of Local Authority environmental enforcement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Quarrying Sector (18 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ..., as appropriate, is required to have regard to the particular local circumstances of the proposed development and may attach appropriate conditions to the permission on a case by case basis. My Department issued statutory Guidelines to Planning Authorities on Quarrying and Ancillary Activities in April 2004, to which planning authorities and the Board must have regard when...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (18 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is the lead authority responsible for the interim review of Ireland's 5th Nitrates Action Programme (NAP) and the associated Regulations. My Department is working closely with them in this regard. As part of the European Commission’s Implementing Decision granting Ireland its current Nitrates Derogation, additional...

Seanad: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Statements (29 Mar 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...arson before starting. The Senator referred to the problems for fishing tourism. Let us be fair; the reason fishing tourism is almost gone is due to water quality, which has deteriorated. The EPA annual report states that only slightly more than half of surface waters - rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal waters - are in satisfactory condition, meaning they are achieving good or high...

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ...schemes are so convoluted, and are deliberately designed as such, no one can draw them down. I say that hand on my heart. Many other schemes are designed the same way. They are designed by Departments which seem to want to make things more difficult for people. There is the Government’s green dream here. Many aspects of it are just big fear. It is frightening people. I am...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...far from here, where we practised the systems and procedures outlined in the national plan for nuclear and radiological emergency exposures, to ensure that the Government and State agencies are prepared to manage the response effectively to a range of potential scenarios. The national plan details Ireland's planning and preparedness for a national response to a major nuclear emergency....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023) See 10 other results from this debate

...surrounding landscape will, ultimately, show up in the water quality, and that is what we are seeing in an Irish context. We are in the midst of an ever-worsening water quality crisis, with the EPA increasingly highlighting the deteriorating situation. Half of our rivers and lakes are considered polluted and the EPA has highlighted the alarming declines in our estuaries, two thirds of...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (23 Mar 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...grant for farming families under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 3. Senator Lynn Boylan - The need for the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to amend the EPA waste licensing system to allow for formalised and structured "scavenging" to enable greater re-use of waste and the development of the circular economy. Senator Barry Ward - The need for the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (23 Mar 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Lynn Boylan: ...the same connotations, and it is an activity we should encourage. One-off organisations such as the Ballymun Rediscovery Centre show we can give a new lease of life to furniture, clothes and bicycles. The EPA-licensed site report on waste enforcement cites scavenging permitted on site as one area of non-compliance with the licence. In an era when we are more urgently trying to make our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...time. In the first of the carbon budgets, we are on track to meet our first target, but only just. We will not know the exact figures for 2022 until April. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, will come in the next week or two with the indicative figures. I do not have an indication yet as to what they are. I do not expect a significant reduction. The reason we are on track is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Gorse Burning (23 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The burning of agricultural land, containing heather and gorse, is an issue that concerns several Government Departments and Agencies. Section 40 of the Wildlife Act 1976, as amended; specifies that the burning of vegetation growing on uncultivated land cannot be undertaken during the nesting and breeding season for birds and wildlife, from 1 March to 31 August. In addition, burning...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Quality (22 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Gary Gannon: ...not just local authorities. Will the Minister of State make a commitment to produce a strategy for improving air quality in inner-city Dublin? I also call on the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to install monitoring stations in the worst-affected areas such as Phibsboro so that the rehabilitation of the local air quality can be monitored while attempts to solve this issue are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Ms Deirdre Ryan: There is still concern. We have been engaging with the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, FSAI, and Teagasc. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, still has concerns around the heavy metal content of digestate in particular. As such, we do not allow any raw or treated sewage sludge to be spread on Bord Bia quality-assured farms, but it is certainly something we will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (22 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: My Department does not compile or maintain statistics in relation to the levels of enforcement actions by Local Authorities under the Solid Fuels Regulations. Local Authorities report this information as part of their enforcement activities under environmental legislation to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on an annual basis. Details of Local Authority environmental enforcement are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (22 Mar 2023)

Michael McGrath: The most recent projection of additional carbon tax revenues provided by my Department for the period 2021 to 2030 amounted to €9.2 billion, based on the Government’s commitment to increasing the amount that is charged per tonne of CO2 emissions from fuels to €100 by 2030. This is a key pillar underpinning the Government’s Climate Action Plan ambitions to halve...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (22 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...a permit for the use of explosives in the extractive industry, or for other purposes, is a matter for An Garda Síochána, which falls within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Justice, whose Department has issued the Guide to Explosives Legislation in Ireland. In relation to the extractive industry which commonly involves rock breaking, my Department issued statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Programme for Government (22 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: In 2019, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Funded Project, the Biomass Retrieval in Ireland using Active Remote (BRIAR) sensing project, conducted by Teagasc, estimated that Ireland has an estimated national hedgerow length of 689,000km. In line with the commitment in Programme for Government regarding a national hedgerow survey, my Department has mapped farmland hedgerows nationally...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Bruton: I can only imagine the complexity of 169 targets across scores of Departments and agencies. It is a truly formidable task to try to co-ordinate those in a coherent way. One of my suggestions, on which the witnesses could comment, concerns each newly-appointed Minister having to provide a strategy statement within six months. Under the 1997 Act, there is supposed to be a rotating evaluation...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (21 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...the site and enforcement of the environmental legislation as it applies to the owners of the site, is a matter for Galway County Council. I am aware that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) produced a report on the site in 2003 which stated that Galway Council is responsible for enforcing environmental legislation within its functional area, and the EPA has responsibility for...