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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...Indications from Local Authorities to date are that there has been a high level of compliance. However, some small issues of illegal trading and non compliant fuel still remain. Officials from my Department are working with the Local Authorities on a number of enforcement projects to tackle this. It is just over a year since the new regulations came into effect and it was anticipated...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Nuclear Waste (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Ireland has a close working relationship with the UK on radiological issues and engages, as appropriate, with the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and the relevant UK Regulators through the UK-Ireland Contact Group on Radiological Matters, which meets bi-annually. At a technical level, the Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA), also engages with the UK nuclear regulators,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ..., water resources, agriculture and food security, human health, and coastal zones. Climate adaptation is the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects. My Department leads and coordinates national climate adaptation policy, primarily through the development and implementation of the National Adaptation Framework (NAF, 2018). Adaptation measures aim to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...with final data to be submitted on March 15th. The submission is accompanied by the National Inventory Report (NIR) which details the methodological approach. Copies of the NIRs can be found on the EPA website.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The most recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) State of the Environment report was published in 2020, with the next of these reports due later in 2024. The EPA State of the Environment reports are important milestones for Ireland, as they provide a snapshot of the environment at a particular point, as well as showing trends and changes in the environment over time. The reports...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...environmental authorities for their consideration for a period of not less than four weeks from the dates of notice. Currently, SEA environmental authorities are listed yet we have these before the EPA and the Minister for agriculture, the Minister for housing – myself – the development applications unit at the Department of housing and the Minister for the environment. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

...are also being developed. The OPW supports other public agencies and organisations in the development of their nature-based policies and schemes, identifying areas for mutual co-operation. With the EPA, the OPW is co-chairing the working group on nature-based solutions for catchment management. Nature-based solutions are becoming an increasing focus of our work, but an ongoing challenge...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (5 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 126 and 127 together. My Department does not compile or maintain statistics in relation to the levels of enforcement actions by Local Authorities under the Solid Fuels Regulations. Local Authorities report this information as part of their enforcement activities under environmental legislation to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on an annual basis. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...completed by the end of 2026. There are over 1,000 water supplies in Ireland. Overall, Ireland has good drinking water quality. In its Drinking Water Quality Report for 2022, which was published in 2023, the EPA confirmed that “water quality from public supplies remains high and consumers can be confident that it is safe to drink” and “compliance rates are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Éireann) network. The water services infrastructure, provided by the developer of such estates, is more commonly called DPI. Using funding provided under the National Development Plan, my Departments’ Multi-annual Developer Provided Water Services Infrastructure Resolution Programme (DPI Programme) provides funding to assist in progressively resolving issues with DPI across...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Question does not make reference to a specific Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report. I am assuming that the report referred to is Antimicrobial Resistance and the Environment – Sources, Persistence, Transmission and Risk Management (AREST). If this is the case, the report was published in February 2024. The findings and recommendations of the research study will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (29 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...and operation at national, regional and local level, including investment in drinking water treatment plants and distribution networks. Under Section 7 of the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013, my Department has no operational function in this matter. However, it may be helpful to note that Uisce Éireann has established a dedicated team to deal with representations and queries from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...measures at local level. These structures are further supported by the Local Authority Waters Programme (LAWPRO), which acts as a local government national shared service and is funded by my Department. A significant element of the engagement by the Local Authorities in implementing the WFD is through nitrates inspections. Within the local authority sector, the local authority...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Steven Matthews: ...discharge licence to water. Can a planning authority attach conditions to an application with regard to emissions, even if there is an IPC or other type of emissions licence as part of that to the EPA?

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: From the Seanad (28 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...of that board. Amendments Nos. 9 and 12 are similar in nature and propose that when the mayor is appointing persons to the delivery board and to the transport subgroup, he or she will consult the EPA to ensure that a person with the relevant climate expertise is on each committee. Section 33 relates to the Project 2040 delivery board and section 34 relates to the transport subgroup. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

...and the European Commission must acknowledge that the range of new actions undertaken by farmers will require time to be implemented. In advance of the next negotiations, the Government should prepare a strong science-based document, with EPA input, similar to the marginal abatement cost curve, MACC, for greenhouse gas emissions. A compelling case is needed for the European Commission....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Impact of Climate on Public Finances: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (28 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...of this, with significant flooding in Midleton this winter. Severe weather events also appear to now be more common, albeit this may be partially due to improved record keeping and weather instruments. As the EPA recently highlighted, these events are exposing an adaptation deficit in Ireland. Keeping global temperatures below 2°C of warming relative to pre-industrial levels...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...any significant additional costs that may be passed on to end-users and consumers. Any additional costs for the regulated entities would relate to the administrative costs of monitoring and reporting fuel usage to the EPA as the Competent Authority.