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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]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 299. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average grant provided to a household for retrofitting their home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51294/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 281. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of the definition that his Department uses for energy poverty or fuel poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51000/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 282. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of the methodology for measuring and tracking energy and fuel poverty levels that his Department uses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51001/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 283. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated number of households in energy or fuel poverty in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51002/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 298. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average cost to the State of retrofitting a home for those living or at risk of energy poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51293/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 304. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason he did not increase the €109 million retrofitting budget for those living or at risk of energy poverty in Budget 2022 compared to Budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51299/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 301. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that will receive financial assistance under the solar PV grant programme in 2022; the estimated average grant; the estimated impact this will have on electricity demand and carbon emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51296/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 302. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households that have received a grant to date under the solar PV scheme in each year; the impact this had on carbon emissions to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51297/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Budgets (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 294. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount carried over from his Department’s 2021 budget allocation to Budget 2022; the Departmental underspend in the 2021 budget allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51289/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Budgets (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 295. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of the programmes or initiatives to be funded under the energy transformation heading in Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51290/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Budgets (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 300. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the detailed breakdown of the €202 million announced for retrofits in Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51295/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 296. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that have been retrofitted to date in 2021; the number estimated to be retrofitted by the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51291/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (19 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 297. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that will be retrofitted in 2022; the number of these that will be fully funded by the State; the cost of same; the number that will be partially funded by the State; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51292/21]