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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (11 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 89.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 50 of 14 May 2024, to provide a breakdown of how the figure of 16,600 heat pump installations in existing homes was arrived at; to provide a breakdown of installations per year of the period that the figure is accounting for, in tabular form; to provide a breakdown, per scheme, per...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (11 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 90.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if only heat pumps installed in existing buildings will be counted as contributing to the 2030 target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25236/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (11 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 132.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 120 of 16 May 2024, to provide a breakdown of services that have been curtailed due to unacceptable or criminal behaviour and related risks to others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25055/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (11 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 409.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 50 of 14 May 2024, the target for heat pumps in new builds to 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25235/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 458.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 29 May 2024, the number of persons who qualified for an invalidity pension on the basis of a mental health illness in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 [25028/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Strategies (30 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 52. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to report on the progress to date in the development of the national counter disinformation strategy; when she expects this strategy to be published; if she will report on the meetings of the national counter disinformation strategy working group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24425/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (30 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on rental prices in County Meath; how he plans to address these high costs and to increase the housing available for rent in Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24420/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (30 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the retrofitting of local authority homes with heat pumps; if he is aware of concerns that this is leading to higher-than-expected bills; if he plans to increase education/spread awareness about heat pump usage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24419/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 184. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 414 of 30 April 2024, to outline the conditions under which local authority section 48 development contributions may be waived; how far houses must have been progressed in order to have the development contributions waived; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24433/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I raise the issue of Bord na Móna's plans to sell off its waste management business, as was reported recently. This risks further concentration of waste management services, which is potentially bad for workers and customers. It is further privatisation when the opposite should be happening. Is the Taoiseach aware of the plan and has he or the Government assessed it in terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the invalidity pension; the criteria necessary to qualify; and to provide a breakdown of the number of people that were in receipt of the invalidity pensions in 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [24249/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the invalidity pension; the mental health conditions that qualify for the receipt of the invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24250/24]

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: In today's Ireland, hundreds of thousands of ordinary workers and families face an impossible situation. They are confronted with a housing crisis of unprecedented proportion. Successive Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Green Governments have utterly failed on housing. Bad planning, mismanagement and downright dereliction have resulted in one of the worst shortages of social and affordable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: One of the issues that has been highlighted with regard to this process is the delay with the Department getting these submissions prepared and submitted. My sense is that there are capacity constraints. That is reflected in some of what we saw from the EPA this morning. What was the reason for the delay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: What is the position on the delay regarding the long-term strategy and the NECP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I appreciate there are increasing numbers but I do not see the primacy of this stuff within government and across Departments. That is reflected in my experience at this committee. These matters need to be issues for more than an individual Department. They need to be issues across government. Unallocated emissions savings are in the region of 5.25 megatonnes per year in the second carbon...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: We need a whole new government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I am happy to come back on that issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: One of the significant indicators we have is that the path we are on at the moment is not delivering. There must be a fundamental review of the full approach. The climate action plan is not delivering on the targets that are agreed. There is, in fairness, broad political consensus around the targets themselves, which we should not take for granted. How are the unallocated emissions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: Is it the Minister's position that there are no capacity constraints within his Department? Consider the position if we go section by section. Regarding transport, for example, the Connecting Ireland programme, which entails rolling out rural transport services and which everybody universally agrees upon and supports, is supposed to involve a five-year plan. However, at this rate it will...