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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]

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

Darren O'Rourke: 155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown from 2022 to 2030 of the €3 billion funding for the national retrofit plan not funded by carbon tax receipts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9850/22]

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

Darren O'Rourke: 156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the target number of homes to be completed under the Better Energy Warmer Homes Scheme in 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9851/22]

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

Darren O'Rourke: 157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the target number of homes to be completed under the attic and cavity wall insulation scheme in 2022 and 2023; the budget for this scheme in both years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9852/22]

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

Darren O'Rourke: 158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the carbon emission savings from deep retrofitting 1,000 homes under the national home energy upgrade scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9853/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has examined the introduction of more flexibility for ten-journey tickets on public service obligation routes by, for example, increasing the expiry date of the ten journey ticket, taking into account commuters new work patterns which mean they might only be travelling a few times a week; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average time to update folios on the landdirect.ie website in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9093/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 545. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will include a small cohort of persons (details supplied) in the free travel scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9656/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 713. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will receive an appointment at the National Rehabilitation Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9242/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 788. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is not allowing ward clerks on to wards at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Navan, County Meath to assist families who are unable to visit sick and elderly persons to answer their phone or set up a facetime call (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9592/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Feb 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 806. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are no neurology services such as regular monthly clinics or case studies provided at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Navan, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9730/22]