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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: It is not being considered for use in aviation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: Which vehicles does that apply to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: There are grants that have not yet been drawn down because the vehicles have not been delivered. They are secure until next March.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: Right. That is not the understanding of some people, who have interpreted that in a different way. They will be glad to hear this. That is great. The maritime industry is vulnerable in Ireland and people are worried about the prospect of increased levies on fuel when there is no alternative in place. Is that a likely prospect? It seems as if it is on the back of this suite of proposals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: Chairman, what might be helpful is the ETS has been in place for a number of years now. It is the European carbon budgeting. It sets targets for a number of sectors. Some of them the Chairman will be familiar with, like the 2020 targets we have missed and in terms of renewables. It might be useful to give a sense of the ETS and how these proposals mean to change that. From the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: However, we did not. The whole point of Fit for 55 is that much of that is going to be taken out of our hands for want of a better term. There might be an argument made specifically in terms of transport or buildings in that those are big areas where we need reductions and we have not seen them over a period of time. It is certainly a point, and it is why the Committee on Environment and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Economic and Social Research Institute (20 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the Economic and Social Research Institute report entitled Carbon taxes, poverty and compensation options, 2020 cited by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform as proof that carbon tax increases leave the lowest income fifth of households on average better off and reduces poverty, fails to take...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Economic and Social Research Institute (20 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the ESRI report entitled Carbon Taxes, Poverty and Compensation Options, 2020 cited by his Department as proof that carbon tax increases leaves the lowest income fifth of households on average better off and reduces poverty, does not accurately measure energy poverty, due to the fact...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (20 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the up-to-date Government research his Department holds on the use of carbon tax funds (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51561/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Economic and Social Research Institute (20 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the Economic and Social Research Institute report entitled Carbon Taxes, Poverty and Compensation Options 2020 cited by his Department as proof that carbon tax increases leave the lowest income fifth of households on average better off and reduces poverty, fails to take into account the huge increase in energy prices since...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses and wish them the best for their continuing and new roles, respectively. Covid measures are in place. We have the digital Covid certificate in place for some months now. Do the witnesses see it as a success and a tool that will be useful going forward? What does the shoulder period between now and next season look like? Could or should anything be implemented to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: Does the same principle apply in Cork or is it a different proposition or a slightly different target?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: Negotiations are ongoing.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: What I am hearing from the Minister is that he is not happy with the way these changes are being implemented. He said it is not acceptable for the changes to happen in the manner reported but ultimately what I am hearing is that the destination is the same. The accident and emergency department and ICU in Navan are going to close. It is only a matter of when. We might have the opportunity...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: Ten years ago, Deputies Naughten and Feighan were in the same place having the same conversation about Roscommon hospital. Two weeks ago the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, Deputy Connolly, had a Topical Issue debate with the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, about the failures at the accident and emergency department in Galway. That is what the people in Navan and County Meath are faced with now....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 107. To ask the Minister for Health if the emergency department and the intensive care unit in Navan hospital will close; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50516/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: School transport for secondary students is operating at a loading limit of 50%. Thousands of children were excluded from the scheme due to the infamous concessionary ticket classification. We were promised that this would be kept under review. Parents and Bus Éireann were looking towards 22 October for the possible reintroduction of 100% refunds, which would ordinarily have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and COP26: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: In the lived experience of many of the thousands of people who have availed of the warmer home scheme, its title is a misnomer because they do not have warmer homes as a result of it. Their homes are slightly less cold but they are a long way off being retrofitted, warm and less reliant on carbon. I appreciate the policy framework and political position to which the Minister referred but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and COP26: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: Will the carbon budgets be published by COP26? What is their relationship with the climate action plan and when might the Dáil see and be able to debate them? Will they include sectoral ceilings and a roadmap? Regarding the EU's Fit for 55 package and the national versus regional in a European sense as opposed to internationally, what is the Minister's sense of the direction of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions he has had with colleagues in relation to the advanced practice proposals and pay parity claim by medical scientists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50517/21]