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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (1 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 443 of 14 February 2022, if the information can now be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10448/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (1 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reduce the €300 annual fee for renewals of Irish residence permit cards for non-EEA students in view of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis; the details of any analysis carried out by his Department in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10396/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (1 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what, if any, fees apply for the replacement of a lost or stolen Irish residence permit card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10397/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of any analysis carried out by his Department with regard to carrying out a pilot project for local authority decarbonisation zones, in advance of the national roll-out of local authority decarbonisations zones, so that the results of the pilot project could feed into the national roll-out;...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: The rules do not allow me but I should have taken the two questions together to develop this a bit more. In utter frustration then, the second question is put down because of the decarbonisation plans sitting in the Department. I asked whether it is possible to have a pilot project to learn, to roll them out and let the local authorities do their jobs, and learn from it. In my six seconds,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: We have clarification. The guidelines were issued last Friday. They will be made public within a month. We may have to wait another month to suit the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, presumably. A direction has also been issued to all the local authorities to prepare an action plan. Is that what the Minister of State said? I do not have the reply in front of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I am asking why it has taken up until now to get the guidelines, while welcoming them. I will not interrupt.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I am going to try again. Has the Minister issued the direction to the local authorities to prepare their climate action plans? The Department is under a legal obligation to do that within 18 months. That 18 months is up next Tuesday, 7 March. Has that happened? If it has not happened, will it happen before 7 March? In regard to a history lesson on the decarbonisation zones, let me...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 119 of 15 December 2022, the status of the promised statutory guidelines for the implementation of local authority climate action plans, which will include the guidelines for the implementation of the local authority decarbonisation zones; the timeline for the publication of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I have a very specific question and it relates to the long-promised statutory guidelines we are waiting for that will form the basis on which climate action plans will be prepared and implemented. Where are the statutory guidelines? Have they been published or are they about to be published? If not, what is the delay and when will they be published?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: They have been completed and sent out to all of the 31 local authorities. Is that what I am to understand? There has been no fanfare at this point and nobody knows about it except the local authority management. Is that correct? However, everybody will know about it in a month's time. I welcome that they have finally been published because without them we cannot have a local climate...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Too much time.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I am normally constructively critical, and quite severely so, of the management in the city council in Galway but on this occasion, it did everything right. It submitted the decarbonisation zone plan two years ago and the Department has done nothing since then. I and other colleagues, I think, followed it up and we were told that it was waiting for the statutory guidelines. It has taken...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Out of 31 local authorities 29 submitted decarbonisation plans. I have asked a very specific question. How have those plans just sat there? Have the other two local authorities, which did not submit plans, done so now? Equally significantly, has the Department now issued directions that they have until 7 March to direct the local authorities to make-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: No, I did not.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: We are not. I beg your pardon. I was in my second minute of the priority question.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Reviews (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the Government’s review of energy security; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9837/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 8 November 2022, the details of any engagement he has had since November 2022 with Galway City and County Councils with regard to supporting and promoting efforts at local government level on climate action; the details of any engagement he has had since November 2022 with...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (28 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 8 November 2022, the status of the heat and built environment delivery task force; if the task force has met to date; the membership of the task force; the terms of reference of the task force; if minutes are taken in respect of meetings of the task force; and if he will...