Results 81-100 of 382 for 5 million speaker:Eamon Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (26 May 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ... poverty, or fuel poverty is influenced by a person’s income, the energy efficiency of their home, and the cost of the energy they use in their home. In 2020, the ESRI estimated that 17.5% of households in Ireland could be at risk of energy poverty. Lower income households living in inefficient homes are more at risk...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (26 May 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...Package and other payments, as well as providing free energy efficiency upgrades through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland schemes and the Social Housing retrofitting programme. This year, 58% (€203 million) of the total Government retrofit budget of €352 million will be spent on dedicated energy poverty retrofit supports and local...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Strategies (25 May 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ... poverty, or fuel poverty is influenced by a person’s income, the energy efficiency of their home, and the cost of the energy they use in their home. In 2020, the ESRI estimated that 17.5% of households in Ireland could be at risk of energy poverty. Lower income households living in inefficient homes are more at risk...

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...regarding the technology. Most new nuclear power plants being built, or those just recently concluded or commissioned in the likes of Finland, France or elsewhere, come of a size of about 1.5 GW, which makes it incredibly expensive should we use the Irish grid. On a grid in Ireland, we are currently probably using approximately 5 GW. We always have to have back-up power to complement...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (18 May 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...have met with representatives of the social enterprise referred to in the question. The Programme for Government and Climate Action Plan set ambitious targets to retrofit the equivalent of 500,000 homes to a Building Energy Rating (BER) of B2/cost optimal or carbon equivalent and the installation of 400,000 heat pumps in existing homes to replace older, less efficient heating systems by...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (12 May 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...the rising cost of living. These measures included increases to weekly social welfare payments, targeted measures with increases in the living alone allowance and the qualified child increase and a €5 increase in the weekly rate of fuel allowance, with that increase implemented immediately in October. The weekly income threshold for Fuel Allowance was also increased by €20...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (28 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Energy poverty, or fuel poverty is influenced by a person’s income, the energy efficiency of their home, and the cost of the energy they use in their home. In 2020, the ESRI estimated that 17.5% of households in Ireland could be at risk of energy poverty. Lower income households living in inefficient homes are more at risk of energy poverty when energy prices increase, as the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Compulsory Purchase Orders (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...set out in the Programme for Government, the National Development Plan and the Climate Action Plan and is progressed based on available funding. In the new NDP launched in October 2021, approximately €5.1 billion is earmarked for new national road projects to 2030. This funding will facilitate improved regional accessibility and will also support compact growth, both of which are...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...funding for regional and local roads during the post 2008 recession resulted in the build-up of a substantial backlog of works across the country. The estimated cost of the backlog is in excess of €5 billion. Because of the pressures on the regional and local road network, approximately 90% of available Exchequer grant assistance to local authorities for regional and local...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Priorities (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government and the Climate Action Plan set ambitious targets to retrofit 500,000 homes to a Building Energy Rating of B2 (or cost optimal equivalent), and to install 400,000 heat pumps to replace existing heating systems by 2030. The review of the National Development Plan (NDP) resulted in an unprecedented financial commitment to support achievement of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Energy poverty, or fuel poverty is influenced by a person’s income, the energy efficiency of their home, and the cost of the energy they use in their home. In 2020, the ESRI estimated that 17.5% of households in Ireland could be at risk of energy poverty. Lower income households living in inefficient homes are more at risk of energy poverty when energy prices increase, as the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...for regional and local roads during the post 2008 recession resulted in the build-up of a substantial backlog of works across the country. The estimated cost of the backlog is in excess of €5 billion. Because of the pressures on the regional and local road network, approximately 90% of available Exchequer grant assistance to local authorities for regional and local roads is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Correspondence (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...funding for regional and local roads during the post 2008 recession resulted in the build-up of a substantial backlog of works across the country.  The estimated cost of the backlog is in excess of €5 billion.  Because of the pressures on the regional and local road network, approximately 90% of available Exchequer grant assistance to local authorities for regional...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (6 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ..., the Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme operated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has undergone a significant expansion between 2017-2022, supported by funding of approximately €5 million from my Department. The network has increased from 29 monitoring stations in 2017 to 102 today, with more due by later this year. The network is already more...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (5 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Deep Retrofit Pilot Scheme was launched in 2017 as a time bound pilot to investigate the challenges and opportunities of deep retrofit in Ireland. Under the scheme 50% grant funding was available for homes that carried out retrofit to an A rating and replaced fossil fuel heating systems with heat pumps and renewables, with 95% support available for people at risk of energy poverty. The...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Mar 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The taxi industry, like so many other sectors, has been hit by these high fuel prices, which is one of the reasons we introduced the 20 cent reduction on excise on petrol and the 15 cent reduction on excise on diesel. In the North it was something like 5 cent by comparison so it was not a small reduction. The other measure we carried out last year that was hugely successful, although people...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (29 Mar 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...to funding for regional and local roads during the post 2008 recession resulted in the build-up of a substantial backlog of works across the country. The estimated cost of the backlog is in excess of €5 billion. Because of the pressures on the regional and local road network, approximately 90% of available Exchequer grant assistance to local authorities for regional and local...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (23 Mar 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...the rising cost of living. These measures included increases to weekly social welfare payments, targeted measures with increases in the living alone allowance and the qualified child increase and a €5 increase in the weekly rate of fuel allowance, with that increase implemented immediately in October. The weekly income threshold for Fuel Allowance was also increased by €20...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (23 Mar 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...funding for regional and local roads during the post 2008 recession resulted in the build-up of a substantial backlog of works across the country. The estimated cost of the backlog is in excess of €5 billion. Because of the pressures on the regional and local road network, approximately 90% of available Exchequer grant assistance to local authorities for regional and local roads...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...the fuel allowance, the qualified child allowance, the working family payment and the living allowance, targeted to those most at risk of fuel poverty. Three weeks ago, we went further with the €500 million package in terms of the €200 credit which will help people with their bills. It will not cover the full increase, but it will help this month. We introduced a 20%...