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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which plastic reduction measures have been successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10780/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which waste management is being utilised in the context of carbon reduction and waste to heat combinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10781/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which air quality monitoring stations continue to show improvement in air quality or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10783/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number and locations of air quality monitoring stations throughout the country; the degree to which air quality has fluctuated at each station in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which the use of electric vehicles has contributed to carbon reduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10778/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which the number of electric vehicles has increased on Irish roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10779/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 246. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she expects the tourism industry to recover as Covid-19 recedes; if inflationary tendencies have been detected in the industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10749/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 247. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she and her Department propose to offer any further incentives to the tourism sector while keeping in mind the necessity not to contribute to inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10750/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 248. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she expects growth to take place in the tourism sector in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10751/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 249. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department propose to support and promote the tourism sector at home and abroad in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10752/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 250. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she and her Department have supported and continued to support the sport and recreational sector through the medium of sports grants or otherwise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10753/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 251. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department continue to encourage participation in sports in 2022 with particular reference to the necessity to encourage wider participation in the aftermath of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10754/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 252. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she proposes to encourage sporting and recreation activities at local level in 2022; the ongoing expenditure in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10755/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Events (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 253. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department are likely to continue to encourage the holding of major international sporting events in Ireland in the course of 2022 and thereafter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10756/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 254. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department expect to promote Irish culture as a means to use national culture to promote the interests of Ireland at home and abroad in what will be a much more competitive market in the aftermath of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10757/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 255. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she proposes to support culture activities throughout 2022 having regard to the need for recovery in the sector in the aftermath of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10758/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 256. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she expects to encourage interest in the arts and Irish culture as means of national recovery in the aftermath of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10759/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 257. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she expects to promote the arts as Covid-19 recedes to ensure that adequate support is made available at local and national level thereby encouraging even greater participation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10760/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 258. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she expects to see appreciable growth in the arts to maximise opportunities and recovery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10761/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (24 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 259. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department are likely to monitor developments in the media with particular reference to addressing the proliferation of channels involved in promoting physical, mental or sexual violence against those who are deemed to be weaker or in their power; her views on whether the time has come to impose...