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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Timetables: Iarnród Éireann (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: We enthusiastically support this project moving on as quickly as possible. To scan the horizon in respect of the M3 parkway and expansion of services, is there capacity on that line to proceed with Navan rail as quickly as possible? The consultants have all but been appointed and Irish Rail is looking towards the back end of the decade and hopefully early into the next one, all going really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Timetables: Iarnród Éireann (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: That again, all going to plan, will line up well.

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I am sharing time with Deputy Gould. I thank the Minister of State for his statement. We have been over this ground a number of times in discussing similar legislation. I broadly welcome this initiative as we go into the winter. I do not agree, however, with a number of provisions in the legislation. The assistance given should have gone further this winter. We will deal with that...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: The heart of this issue is the question of building and sustaining rural communities. Successive Governments, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in particular, have failed abysmally in that. In my own County Meath, people cannot afford houses. The only way many of them can deliver them is if they build for themselves. I appreciate the policy in terms of transport-led development, building on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the targets for each of the SEAI's retrofitting schemes for heat pump installations in each of the years between 2020 to 2030, in tabular form; how the number of installations compares to the targets in each of the years to date; how the number of installations compares to the targets in 2025 and in 2030; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Directives (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that the European Commission has decided to open an infringement procedure against Ireland for failing to fully transpose the revised renewable energy Directive into national law; the measures he is taking to address this; to provide a timeline for the transposition of the revised Renewable Energy...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of taxes taken from fuel tax, VAT excise and carbon tax associated with petrol, diesel and home heating in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40383/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost of reversing the 2024 carbon tax increase, and postponing the 2025 increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40384/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of carbon tax revenue allocated to each Department, in each year from 2020 to 2024; the amount unspent in each Department, in each year from 2020 to 2024; the proportion of the revenue spent on climate action measures per Department, in each of the years from 2020 to 2024; the amount revenue spent on climate action measures...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the ringfenced measures that carbon tax revenue may be spent on, in each department, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40386/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of any instances when carbon tax revenue was not spent on agreed upon ring-fenced measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40387/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline how his Department tracks the way carbon tax revenue is spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40388/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of heat pumps that have been installed as part of his Department's local authority retrofitting scheme; the targets for his Department in each of the years between 2020 to 2030, in tabular form; how the number of installations compares to the targets in each of the years to date; how the number of installations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses. RTÉ and the development of ads was touched on, with the relationship between it as the broadcaster and the advertiser. It was about the developing the ad, the pitch and the particular focus. Is there a role for RTÉ in that, or is it entirely led by the advertiser? When the advert is prepared, is there a role for RTÉ in assessing the content of it? I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: Is there ever a case where it is said an advert will not be run? Is any rule run over the adverts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank Mr. Mullen. I am conscious of time. To both sets of witnesses, I pose that question on a potential transition towards placing a ban or restrictions on advertising fossil fuels or some reference to the climate impact of various products. How would that type of transition be envisaged?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: No, I will clarify the question. If I set out a scenario where this or a future Government was moving in the direction of restricting the advertising of certain sectors or perhaps outright bans in some cases, what would RTÉ like to see happening from its perspective as a broadcaster and an organisation that benefits from advertising revenue in terms of how that process might be managed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of the reported 6.8% emissions reduction in 2023 that is contributed by imported electricity; what this equates to in tonnes of carbon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39957/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (8 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of emails he and his secretary general have received 2 September 2024 from active members of the CIÉ 1951 pension scheme, expressing their total opposition to any new statutory instrument that would change and reduce their pension benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39731/24]