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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...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Jerry Buttimer: I concur with Senator Murphy in congratulating the boxers on a fantastic achievement. I ask that the Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for mental health and older people, Deputy Butler, come to the House to discuss the ongoing issues in nursing homes and care of the elderly. The Home and Community Care Ireland annual conference today will hear that six in ten...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...plantations and biodiversity deserts everywhere. Basically, hedgerows that should be a refuge for biodiversity have been wiped out. We have learned from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, that our rivers and oceans continue to be of poor quality as a direct result of the growth in nitrate use which, in itself, is a direct consequence of the intensive farming and export-driven...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

...going to set that sectoral target. That is looking at existing information in relation to our land use, soils and starting the process. Then it will go into phase two and that is being led by the EPA. On the Life project, I think Deputy Fitzmaurice is referring to the Burren Life project.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (18 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...all sectors to effectively address the challenge Ireland’s second One Health National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance 2021 – 2025, known as iNAP2 was jointly published by the Department of Health and my Department in November 2021. Promoting and supporting research into AMR related issues is one of the 5 key objectives in both the previous and current One...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

...at the year end to be surrendered to the Exchequer. However, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform may allow up to 10% of unspent capital funding in a Vote to be carried over for use in the following year. The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications was allowed to carry over the maximum amount from 2021, around €58 million, and the balance of €48...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (12 Oct 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has responsibly for avian influenza testing in Ireland. I can confirm that the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has contacted DAFM and made them aware of the issue referred to. Avian Influenza has to be ruled out in the first instance and DAFM always need to be contacted in such cases so they can have records and enact their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022) See 5 other results from this debate

...we have to travel through one county to get to the other side of the bog. If we get granted planning permission, which could be a two-year process, it will only be then that we can apply to the EPA for a licence. In 2019, Mr. Spillane and myself went to the DG Environment in Brussels to highlight the absurdity of the situation that we are caught in here. We were pointed straight back...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...- I am not sure - but the words the Minister used were "the world is burning". Ireland's emissions continue to rise. There was a 4.7% rise in 2021 compared with 2020. That is according to the EPA, not the radical Deputies on this side of the Dáil coming up with figures out of the sky. Transport emissions accounted for 17.7% of total national greenhouse gas emissions, and road...

Seanad: Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022) See 4 other results from this debate

Peter Burke: ...compared with some of the more significant pressures identified in the draft river basin management plan 2022-2027. Detailed assessments of our water bodies by the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and the local authority waters programme, as part of our river-basin management planning cycles, will aim to refine and identify the more significant abstraction pressures. This will give...