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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets and Climate Action Plan: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (16 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Chair. I suspect a conspiracy. That is all right. The Minister will attend a meeting of the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications tomorrow, where I will surely raise the matter of broadband. I thank him for his time. Much has been covered. I have some comments on the process here, the carbon budgets as they relate to sectoral ceilings, and the committee's role in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (16 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected funding to be made available from the Climate Action Fund between 2021 and 2030 to deliver on the Climate Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55599/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (16 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected funding to be made available from the Just Transition Fund between 2021 and 2030 to deliver on the Climate Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55600/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (16 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of the penalties provided for in the Climate Act 2021 for failing to meet targets including sectoral emissions ceilings and carbon budgets, 2030 interim targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55921/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Production (16 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the plans to rent and import 200 megawatts of emergency gas generators in winter 2021 have been abandoned; the amount which was spent on the attempted procurement; if the State or a semi-State body will face fines for abandoning this plan; if so, the estimated amount; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (16 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the design, funding and delivery schedule of the Boyne greenway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55868/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (16 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving licence issued in the United Arab Emirates can be exchanged for a driving licence here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55974/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (16 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance the total carbon tax collected in 2019; the amount raised in the transport and buildings category by category in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55595/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (16 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance the total carbon tax collected in 2020; the amount raised in the transport and buildings category by category in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55596/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (16 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance the total carbon tax collected in 2021; the amount raised in the transport and buildings category by category in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55597/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (16 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance if the estimated carbon tax income of €9.5 billion to 2030 factors in the EU Fit for 55 proposals for carbon tax changes on transport and buildings; the estimated impact these changes would have on Irish carbon tax income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55598/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bonds Redemption (16 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that has been raised in Irish sovereign green bonds; the way this money has been used; his plans to raise green revenue by this mechanism in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55655/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 531. To ask the Minister for Health the number of neurology nurse specialists that have been recruited for Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin; when he anticipates these positions will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55657/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Contracts (11 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 207. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 141 of 2 November 2021, if he will provide the name of the Italian consultant companies appointed to undertake the review of the North-South Interconnector. [55400/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (11 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Action 106 in the new Climate Action Plan to deliver a network of safe, segregated cycling facilities has been delayed; the mitigation measures that are being put in place to ensure no further delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55402/21]

Science Week 2021: Statements (10 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this debate. I thank the Business Committee for scheduling it and Deputy Naughten who was involved in ensuring that was the case. I commend Deputy Naughten on his chairmanship of the Houses of the Oireachtas Friends of Science group, of which I am a member. I do not get to it as much as I might like, but it is a very useful forum. There is a huge...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: This is wide-ranging legislation. The transport committee undertook pre-legislative scrutiny over the past few months. Many aspects of the Bill seek to make our roads safer from variable speed limits to regulating e-scooters to giving gardaí more powers to check for uninsured vehicles on our roads. Sinn Féin welcomes these provisions. We support making our roads safer and trying...

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: It has been merely a number of weeks since we previously debated a motion on energy prices. This shows how important this issue is. In these few weeks we have witnessed yet more price hikes from suppliers but we have seen absolutely no action from the Government to address the crisis. There have been more than 35 price hike announcements from Irish suppliers this year. They are having a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that cardiac rehabilitation services in Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan have not yet been restored; when it is expected that cardiac rehabilitation services will be restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54804/21]

Regional Transport Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion. It is incredible that on the day the national development plan was launched, we were told by the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, that there were projects included in it that will never be delivered. That made sense, however, to any of us who read it, given that it provided for €5.1 billion for new roads, €800 million of which was...