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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The National Youth Climate Assembly is a core deliverable of the Programme for Government and the National Dialogue on Climate Action. It is a collaboration between my Department and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and will be an annual event.The National Youth Climate Assembly will be comprised of 40 young people aged between 12 and 24 years of age who...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Climate Action Plan 2021 includes a suite of policies and measures to ensure that the public sector will lead by example, inspiring the necessary climate action in wider society to reduce Ireland’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 51% by 2030, and to become climate neutral no later than 2050. Although the sector’s share of emissions is relatively small, it will play a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government and the Climate Action Plan set specific targets and commitments for the public sector to achieve – namely 50% energy efficiency improvement (increased from 33% by 2020) and 51% emissions reduction target by 2030, and the development of an approach to cost effectively retrofit the public sector building stock. Work is currently underway to identify and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Annual Transition Statement (ATS), established under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015, served an important function in providing an overview of climate change mitigation and adaptation policy measures adopted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the effects of climate change in order to enable the achievement of Ireland's National Transition...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Ireland's Long-term Climate Action Strategy (LTS) will be completed in quarter one 2022 as set out in the Annex of Actions, published on 14 December last, to support the delivery of the Climate Action Plan 2021. Ireland prepared a draft of the LTS in 2019 in line with the then climate ambition set out in Ireland’s Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015. However,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Better Energy Warmer Homes Scheme is funded by my Department and administered by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). The scheme delivers a range of energy efficiency measures free of charge to lower income households vulnerable to energy poverty. To date over 146,000 homes have received free...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage provide the vast majority of support for the retrofitting of local authority homes. I understand that 1,730 local authority homes were upgraded under that Department's retrofit programme in 2021.More broadly, my Department funds a number of SEAI grant schemes to support homeowners to improve the energy efficiency of their...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Commission for the Regulation of Utilities, the independent energy regulator, has issued a direction to EirGrid, the electricity transmission system operator, and ESB Networks, the electricity distribution system operator, that requires each of the system operators to prioritise data centre connections based on location, the availability of on-site generation and flexibility in reducing...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: A €215m Scheme has been approved by Government to credit all domestic electricity account holders with up to €100 in 2022.Approximately 2.1 million domestic electricity accounts will benefit from the scheme for a one-off, exceptional payment. The scheme will apply to every domestic electricity account. The scheme uses the eligibility criterion of a meter point registration...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Deputy will receive an answer to Question No. 158 of 30 November 2021 no later than 18th February.  A comprehensive response is being finalised that takes account of the end 2021 financials.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (1 Feb 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. The Government’s Strategy to Combat Energy Poverty was published in 2016 and good progress has since been made including: Funding for SEAI's free energy poverty retrofit schemes has increased dramatically over the period...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) have, at my request, set out a draft Management Plan specifically for the 7 Western Lakes, in the context of the Programme for Government. Management of other waters may be considered separately. Management is a day to day operational matter for IFI and they will be happy to address the Deputy's queries on Lough Ennell in that context. IFI has...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Process (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: There are currently two Acts for which all sections have yet to be formally commenced by my Department. The details are set out in the following table. Title of Act Section(s) not yet commenced Purpose of section(s) Reason for delay in commencement Proposed future date of commencement Telecommunications Services (Ducting and Cables)...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The 2021 Climate Action Plan (CAP21) committed to reducing emissions from the residential and commercial buildings sectors to between 3.5 - 4.5 Mt CO2eq. by 2030, from 7.9 Mt in 2018. CAP21 also set out an ambitious National Retrofit Plan detailing how the targets to retrofit 500,000 dwellings and to deploy 600,000 heat pump installations, in both new and existing dwellings, would be met. The...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Climate Action Plan 2021 sets out Ireland's increased ambition to generate up to 80% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2030, contributing to our overall 51% greenhouse gas emission reduction target. To enable this, delivery of up to 8 GW of onshore wind, at least 5 GW of offshore wind and between 1.5 – 2.5 solar PV capacity will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Ireland is taking a phased approach to offshore wind deployment and participating projects and companies will be finalised through competitive auctions with some attrition expected during the process. Following enactment of the Maritime Area Planning Act in December 2021, I will have the responsibility for granting the first Maritime Area Consents (MACs) to an initial batch of offshore...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Reports (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Climate Action Plan 2021 provides a detailed pathway for taking decisive action to achieve our national economy-wide climate targets for 2030 and 2050, as committed to in the Programme for Government and set out in the Climate  Act 2021. The referenced work was one of a number of pieces of analysis that helped to inform the development and delivery of the Climate Action Plan 2021....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Statutory licence duties are provided for under the Fisheries Acts. In line with the recommendations of the Board of Inland Fisheries Ireland, the revised duty for Special Local Licences was provided for in the Special Tidal Waters (Special Local Licences) (Alteration of Duties) Order 2021 - SI No. 733 of 2021. Duties were reduced ahead of the 2010 fishing season, in the light of prevailing...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: A number of draft policy papers are currently being finalised in my Department in the context of creating a new modern policy framework for the inland fisheries sector with a focus on protection and conservation. I expect that the first of these draft policy papers will be submitted for public consultation and stakeholder inputs very shortly.In relation to consultation and contribution...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (1 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The pending introduction of the Clean Export Guarantee (CEG) tariff represents the first phase of a comprehensive enabling framework for micro-and small-scale generators in Ireland that will allow them to receive payment from their electricity supplier for all excess renewable electricity they export to the grid, which reflects the market value of the electricity. The Commission for...