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Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank People Before Profit-Solidarity for tabling this motion. This year, workers and families will be facing extraordinarily high energy costs at a time when most can least afford them. There have been over 30 price hike announcements from Irish energy suppliers since the start of the year, with some suppliers raising prices on multiple occasions. This is on top of other spiralling...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Citizens' Assembly (6 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the biodiversity citizens' assembly will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48543/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SNAs employed in each primary and secondary school (details supplied) in County Meath in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47666/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant SNA positions in each primary and secondary school (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47667/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (5 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of NEPS psychologists assigned to primary and secondary schools (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47668/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank Professor McMullin for his testimony. To return to the critical reliance on fossil fuels and the potential need for them into the future, he stated that a move away is technically feasible, although it would require decisive policy measures to be brought about. He went on to say we would need almost to build a separate firm with a dispatchable, instantaneous supply. Does he foresee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses. I have a couple of questions. Many people looking in will wonder how we have ended up in a situation in 2021 where we could not get assurances from very senior Ministers last week that we would not have blackouts. I appreciate that we have received some more information today. I am interested in the relationship with the providers and the lessons they say they...

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Sep 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank Deputy Bríd Smith for bringing forward this Bill. It gives us an opportunity to debate two really important issues. In terms of data centres, this week we heard from experts at the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action about the impact they are having, we have the EirGrid All-Island Generation Capacity Statement 2019-2028 and we heard the Government outline its...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I believe I have ten and half minutes.

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: Is it up? I apologise. This is an important area. We are committed to achieving our 2030 targets. We believe fundamentally that this will require bringing people with us. We need to engage with people at every step of the way. That is a call I will be making of the Minister. I will think every step of the way in terms of eco-austerity. With the greatest of respect to Amazon and...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, and Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, IPBES, reports leave us in no doubt about the twin climate and biodiversity crises we face and that we will have even more devastating consequences if urgent action is not taken now. Unfortunately, successive governments have failed to do enough in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: It is significant that no Minister, including the Taoiseach, can assure the people that we will not have blackouts during the winter. That is significant and a clear case of mismanagement. The red carpet is rolled out on the demand side and the Government dithers on the supply side. Renewable energy support scheme, RESS, auctions have been postponed. Wind Energy Ireland maintains that...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank Deputy Whitmore and the Social Democrats for bringing forward this timely and necessary motion. What we have unfolding before us, particularly in recent months, is a picture of abject failure on behalf of successive Governments to prepare and manage energy and electricity policy, and supply and demand, adequately. Amber alerts are now a common feature, electricity outages are...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (29 Sep 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an electric taxi must be bought within three months of the approval of the eSPSV grant; if this means that a taxi driver who applies for a grant and experiences delivery delays, this could result in him or her losing the eligibility for a grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47004/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (29 Sep 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an independent report into the Blackwater and Boyne catchments (details supplied); if he has considered its findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47074/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Sep 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Meath is inadequately resourced with support teachers; if she will immediately review this position to ensure a fair allocation of resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47075/21]

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister for attending. I might put direct questions to the him and get his response to them and then I will made a broader point. Under subhead B3.5, I note there was an overspend of €39 million in the local and regional roads grants. Will that overrun have to come off the 2022 allocation or how will it be budgeted for? Will that overspend this year impact on next...