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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (24 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an update will be provided on the national broadband plan, including the targets to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10259/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (24 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an update will be provided on the establishment of a just transition commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10261/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sustainable Energy Communities (24 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will increase the funding for the sustainable energy communities programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10257/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (24 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the upfront cost of installing solar PV, which still makes it inaccessible to many households; if he plans to increase the financial support for households to install solar PV; when households with solar PV already installed will begin to receive a payment or credits for excess...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (24 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the window in which Ireland’s climate targets are incorporated or will be incorporated into our planning system; the way that upstream and downstream impacts induced demand and embedded carbon, for example, will be assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10647/22]

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: The Minister must know where Sinn Féin stands on this Bill. We have articulated the position repeatedly over recent months and days. I am disappointed that our amendments have been ruled out of order, but so be it. I am more disappointed that the Minister did not table similar amendments. We firmly believe that now is the opportunity to get the area of marine casualty investigations...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (23 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the eligibility criteria for the free energy upgrade scheme have changed from houses built before 2006 to houses built before 1993; if so, the number of houses this measure will exclude from this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10185/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (23 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the McKinsey reports have been used to inform the development of the Climate Action Plan 2019 and 2021; the way that this compares to the advice from the Climate Change Advisory Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10239/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (23 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 19 January 2022, if he will clarify the number of deep retrofits that were completed in 2021 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10350/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Communications Regulation (Enforcement) Bill: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses for the presentations and updates. I have a couple of sets of questions. The first set of questions is for the Department. When the officials were in with us before, they indicated a timeline. Will they give us an update on their sense of the timeline and where we are in the preparation of the heads of this legislation with the Government? How does that relate to...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. I will deal with the issue of the carbon tax as a mechanism for delivering on our climate obligations. Listening to Government spokespersons, we would be led to believe that the carbon tax is the be-all and end-all; no carbon tax, no climate action. However, we have had carbon taxes for 13 years now and emissions have increased year on...

Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I welcome the commitment to a citizens' assembly on the biodiversity crisis. Campaigners have been calling for the assembly to be convened as a matter of priority to address the growing biodiversity crisis that has been caused by habitat loss, overexploitation and climate change. These factors have caused a rapid acceleration of animals and plants becoming extinct. Measures to restore...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the introduction of a refundable tax credit available to renters in the private rental market valued against their monthly rental payments with an appropriate cap in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9708/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if institutional investors or vulture funds will be eligible for taxpayer fund grants under the new national retrofit scheme for houses they own; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9165/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: North-South Interconnector (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will publish the findings of his review into the north-south interconnector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9321/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the eligibility criteria for the warmer homes retrofitting scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9322/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person who was left a property from a family member can access the 50% and 80% retrofitting grant on their own home and the house that they were left in a will; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9740/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person who owns more than one house can access more than one 50% and 80% retrofitting grant under the new national retrofit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9741/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the 50% and 80% retrofitting grants under the new national retrofit scheme can be accessed by persons who will also apply for the new grant to renovate derelict properties being brought forward by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9742/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the 50% and 80% retrofitting grants under the new national retrofit scheme can be accessed by a person who has a semi-built house; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9743/22]