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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Farm Inspections (21 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...that there is a significant increase in the number of inspections, follow-up actions such as enforcement notices issued, prosecutions taken and penalties applied on non-compliant farms. In 2022 the EPA established and chair the National Agricultural Inspection Programme (NAIP) Working Group under the umbrella of the Network for Ireland's Environmental Compliance and Enforcement...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turf Cutting (21 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine does not have a role in the regulation of cutting of bogs. The Regulation on supply and peat extraction falls under planning regulations and is covered by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Cutting of Bogs above certain size thresholds may also require licensing by the EPA.

Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (9 Mar 2023) See 4 other results from this debate

Ossian Smyth: ...for an activity that is likely to have significant effects on the environment would be required to submit an environmental impact assessment report, EIAR, to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, for its consideration of the application and the agency would be required to carry out an EIA to feed into its licence determination. The process of producing an EIAR is lengthy and has a...

Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Mar 2023) See 6 other results from this debate

Lynn Boylan: ...to override section 15 of the 2015 Act, which relates to relevant bodies. There is already a great deal of flexibility in section 15, in that a relevant body - in this case, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA - need only have regard to the various plans and strategies and not be consistent with them. Professor John Sweeney described this get-out clause at the time as "weasel...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Policy (9 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Seán Canney: 20. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the influence the EPA report on targets to re-wetlands and the proposed reductions in herd numbers will have on policy in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9694/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The report referred to by the Deputy refers to an EPA-funded research project that models a number of ways in which Ireland could meet net-zero emissions by 2050 which is in 27 years’ time. It was carried out by leading soil, carbon and agri-ecologists under the auspices of the EPA Research Programme. It indicates the scale of the challenge in addressing the climate crisis. It is...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Mar 2023) See 9 other results from this debate

Jennifer Whitmore: The Minister is saying we cannot include the sunset clause because it is needed until 2027. This Bill relates to the EPA assessment. The EPA will do that assessment once. We were told very clearly that the assessment would have to be conducted within a couple of months. The EPA will have done its job. It will have used the provisions of the Act and done the assessment in an expedited...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Carrigy: ...High Court orders and the companies that have been shut down from producing peat and the need for us to import peat. I ask that the legislation be looked at again. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is bringing local businesspeople to court. A number have been before the District Court recently. I know a businessman from my own locality in Longford. There are two folio numbers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of Sheep Sector: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

...to make sure that the pressure treatment that we do fits within the environmental constraints of our industrial emissions licence, which means engaging with the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, directly to ensure that we are treating to the correct parameters of the licence. Because the oils are relatively new and the biocides within the oils are relatively new, we have to go through...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023) See 10 other results from this debate

Eamon Ryan: ...circumstances. It is absolutely and exclusively for use at Shannonbridge, Tarbert or both. There is no creep into any other environmental legislative arrangements. It is not the case that the EPA process is bad, wrong, flawed or too long as some, again including Deputy Whitmore, have said. That is not the problem here. The problem is that we need this power supply before Christmas....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Civil Defence: Discussion (7 Mar 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Ms Emer Dalton: Radiation monitoring is a specific role. In the context of radiation, overall responsibility rests with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. The role of Civil Defence is to take radiation readings, which enhances the systems that are in place. For instance, Civil Defence collects samples of soil, water...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (7 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussions he has had with Teagasc, the EPA, and third level institutions in relation to developing improved wastewater treatment systems for small developments, single houses and businesses to virtually eliminate the risk of ground water pollution and contamination of the environment from this source; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Quality (7 Mar 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...may contribute to high blood pressure. Lead has also been linked to cancer. Further information can be obtained on the following websites: HSE Consumer Advice: www.hse.ie/eng/health/hl/water/drinkingwater/lead/ EPA and HSE Joint Position Paper: www.hse.ie/eng/health/hl/water/drinkingwater/lead/hse-epa-jo intpositionpaperleadindrinkingwater.pdf

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)

Brian Leddin: ...respect to habitat protection. Deputy Whitmore rightly pointed out that, until the fish are floating in the river, we often do not know there is a problem. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, monitors rivers frequently and reports on the status of the rivers, I think. Is there a role for Inland Fisheries Ireland, IFI, as an organisation and for the board, with respect to an...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Procurement Contracts (2 Mar 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...Action Plan on Green Public Procurement’, was published in 2012. ‘Green Tenders’ did not specifically outline targets for use of central purchasing arrangements, such as green framework agreements. The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, as the department with policy responsibility for green public procurement, will be conducting a public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: We have to be able to make sure that the measures we put in place are going to count and achieve the reductions that we want them to. We want them to be validated by the EPA. Already there are a number of feed additives on the European market. Over the past year five different additives have been tested. One has been approved in the past few months. That shows that up to 30% can be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

...will contest this. I would just make one observation. I do not know whether this is being considered. In the analogous integrated pollution control licensing regime, which is operated by the EPA, there is an application process and submissions and all the rest. The EPA produces a draft licence for proposed determination saying it is going to grant permission for an intensive pig farm...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (1 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: I draw the attention of the Taoiseach to the recent Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, report showing that at 42 sites, factories and landfills posed a pollution threat to our water sources. The EPA has stated that five of those sites have been put on a priority list for enforcement action after serious and repeated concerns were raised over discharges to local water sources. Of the...