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Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022) See 12 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...to the Committee on Public Accounts and audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. In terms of background to this discussion, the report on urban wastewater treatment was published by the EPA on 20 October. It tells us that 7.5 million litres of sewage is flowing into Ireland's seas and rivers every day, enough to fill three Olympic-sized swimming pools. I am not here to give...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (8 Nov 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme is operated, maintained, and monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rather than by my Department. However, my Department has provided funding for a significant upgrade to the network in recent years, such that the number of monitoring stations has increased from 29 in 2017 to 103 today. All stations collect air quality...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (8 Nov 2022)

Eamon Ryan: European, national and regional waste management policy is predicated on the waste hierarchy as set out in Article 4 of the 2008 Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC), whereby the prevention, preparing for reuse, recycling and other recovery of waste are preferred options to the disposal or landfilling of waste. The Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy launched in September 2020...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (8 Nov 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: The recently published Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report Water Quality in Ireland 2016-2021 shows that the main risk to water quality continues to be excess nutrients (phosphorus and nitrogen) in our rivers, lakes and coastal areas. In relation to the Priority Areas for Action, the EPA reports that a total of 117 river water bodies showed improvements in status, while 67...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...areas with the ACRES General approach available nationally outside those areas. The map of the eight Co-operation Project (CP) zones for the ACRES Co-operation approach was produced by an interdepartmental working group with representatives from my Department, the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), EPA and LAWPRO. This working group agreed the rationale and workflow for the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Taking in Charge (Resumed): Tipperary County Council (27 Oct 2022) See 7 other results from this debate

...That is the situation we find ourselves in. I accept our responsibility to solve this but we cannot solve this alone. It will require the input of Irish Water, Tipperary County Council and the Department and, as there is a certificate of authorisation in relation to the wastewater treatment at Hillview, it also requires the input of the EPA. That is the situation. It is very important...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (26 Oct 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Victor Boyhan: ...work they do in their communities on the management of quality water. I am very keen to hear from the Minister of State regarding the ongoing engagement between the European Commission and the Department on trihalomethanes and the issues around this. I understand there continues to be ongoing correspondence between the Commission and the Department in respect of Ireland's failure to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (26 Oct 2022) See 3 other results from this debate

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue on the EPA's urban wastewater treatment in 2021 report. Having a well-functioning and resilient wastewater treatment infrastructure that will protect our environment is an issue of national importance and I appreciate the Deputy's concern in this matter. Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has had statutory responsibility for all aspects...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...centre in Laois. Deputy Gino Kenny - to discuss issues in relation to the diagnosis of endometriosis. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan - to discuss fuel subsidy for the fishing sector with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Deputy Jackie Cahill - to discuss the public use of the swimming pool in the Garda Síochána College, Templemore. Deputy Jennifer Murnane...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (26 Oct 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Holly Cairns: 95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that he is taking in response to the EPA finding that just 51% of Ireland’s sewage was treated to the European Union standards set to protect our environment, well below the EU average of 90%. [53888/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Wastewater Treatment (26 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to examine the implications of the EPA report on Urban Waste Water Treatment in 2021 and its findings on public health. [53887/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wastewater Treatment (26 Oct 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Holly Cairns: 204. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to examine the implications of the EPA report on Urban Waste Water Treatment in 2021 and its findings on the inshore fishing sector. [53882/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

...the question. Mr. Hanrahan and I have had the privilege of sitting in the food vision dairy group for the past nine months, which has gone through the systems the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, which is the reporting body for this, has. Our understanding of it, and forgive me if I do not have all the exact details, is that there are three different tiers on which carbon is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

John McGuinness: ...watched illegal quarries operate for decades and did nothing and are doing nothing about it. The challenge in this is for those in national Government, local government, health and safety, the EPA, building controls and the National Standards Authority of Ireland, NSAI, to take their jobs seriously and go to these quarries and do the job that they are paid to do; that is not happening....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The compilation of the agricultural greenhouse gas inventory is a matter for the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. As part of this process, the EPA determines the total amount of methane, N2O and CO2emissions generated by the aggregation of all farms. The EPA takes activity data, for example, total animal numbers by category or fertiliser sales data and applies an emissions factor to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Impact Assessments (25 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: ...is also the case that 95% of landowners who seek approval do get full permission. All that adds up to 2,000 km of hedgerows being removed every year, which is a conservative estimate made by the EPA. Hedgerows Ireland, an organisation that I would like to commend has produced research on the issue. It has done brilliant work. As Deputy Carthy will recall, representatives of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...to advise me on priorities for the negotiations and to identify strategies most likely to influence the outcome of the review. The Group was chaired by Mr. John Malone, former Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, and assisted by a steering committee comprising Mr. Micheál Ó Cinneide, former Director of the MI and EPA and Mr. Donal Maguire, former Director in BIM....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...for setting fishing opportunities for the EU, I decided that the SIA process should commence at the start of October rather than later to be as relevant as possible. The SIA is an essential step in Ireland’s preparation for the TAC setting process and I want to have the process completed before we commence the EU-UK consultations. Carrying out the process at this stage allows for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, published a report which found that only half of our sewage is being treated to EU standards and that over 2.5 million tonnes of raw sewage in 32 of our towns and villages is being pumped into our seas and rivers every year. Eight of those are in my home country. In 2015 I submitted a complaint to the European Commission about the State's...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Catherine Murphy: Today's from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, about the wastewater treatment plants is very concerning. Millions of litres of raw sewage continue to be discharged into our rivers and our seas every day. Only half of our sewage was treated to EU environmental standards in 2021. That is way below the EU average of 90%. In Ringsend, which is in the Minister's constituency, sewage is...