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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Minister used the words "disingenuous" and "red herring". I am referring to a warning raised by the Secretary General of the Minister's own Department. It is a warning and an issue. She spoke about a balance between AI, particularly the highly intensive data centres required for new AI developments, and housing. If there is a red herring, it was not I who raised it originally. I made...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Minister for his honesty about the risk of some of those projects not delivering within the 2030 timeline. Would it be the Minister's belief then that if those renewable projects are not going to deliver in that timeline, we must look at the timeline within which new data centres are brought on? There are 40 in various stages. Some have been granted full planning permission....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is important to outline that Ireland is at the most extreme end of vulnerability because of the growth of data centre demand. We host approximately 120 data centres. Today, they consume 21% of all energy we produce. Forty centres are in planning and development right now. No other country reports a higher share of domestic energy consumption by data centres than Ireland. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Minister's own Secretary General presented it that way.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Taoiseach and the Minister for public expenditure, Deputy Chambers, rejected the warnings raised by the Minister, Deputy O'Brien's Secretary General that Ireland would be forced to choose between housing and AI data centres. I believe they and the Minister are far too quick to dismiss concerns by the most senior civil servant in the latter's Department. There has been positive growth...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 138. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline the framework his Department uses to balance between competing energy needs of different sectors of the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30074/25]

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: We are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented scale. More than 15,500 people, including more than 4,700 children are living in emergency accommodation. This is not just a statistic; it is a national failure, and one that demands urgent action. At the same time there are an estimated 80,000 vacant or derelict properties across Ireland. These are properties that could and should be homes....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Infrastructure (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 253. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when national siting regulations for biogas facilities will be published; if they will be designed with reference to international best practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30214/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 261. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline Ireland’s position with respect to the proposed draft fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty; if his Department will consider sending representatives with observer status to discussions about the proposed draft treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30620/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 359. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Dublin Port Company has made a decision to not allow Irish Rail use Alexandra Road to access Dublin Port directly for freight services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30211/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 360. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is aware of the recommendations of the rail safety investigation unit regarding a recent incident at Navan Road Parkway station where passengers were locked onto a platform due to a locked gate and had to cross the train lines on foot to exit the station; the steps being taken at this station to avoid a similar...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Industrial Disputes (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 468. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is aware of the threat to jobs from an industrial relations dispute at a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30212/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to the provision of a new co-educational school in the Cabra Phibsborough D7 school planning area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29697/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 690. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration she has given to funding for youth services, newly moved into her Department, in Budget 2026; if she is aware of the National Youth Council of Ireland pre-Budget 2026 submission seeking a €21.3 million increase in funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30621/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadcasting Sector (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 728. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has had engagement with Coimisiún na Meán regarding its strategy statement and work programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30618/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 811. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the review of the Guidelines for Planning Authorities relating to Childcare Facilities; to list the engagements his officials have had with stakeholders with respect to this review; when the most recent engagement was; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29694/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 812. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the Guidelines for Planning Authorities relating to Childcare Facilities will conclude; when he expects revised guidelines to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29695/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 825. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he is aware that the allocation of funding to Fingal County Council for tenant in situ accommodation has been exhausted and the council is not engaging with any more proposals this year in relation to tenant in situ acquisitions; whether he will allocate sufficient funding to local authorities to enable appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 1077. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to deal with the parental rights for those convicted of killing their partners or a parent of their child, often referred to as Valerie’s law; when he expects the draft Bill to proceed to pre-legislative scrutiny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30622/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 1127. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the 11,677 non-coursing greyhounds whose year of birth was 2021 that were being tracked on Rásaíocht Con Éireann's traceability system as of 21 February 2025, with a detailed breakdown of whether they were active, inactive, exported, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter....