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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: SEAI grant schemes will be a central element of the Government's approach to achieving our national retrofit targets. Some €221.5 million in capital funding has been provided this year for SEAI residential and community retrofit programmes. This represents an 82% increase on the 2020 allocation and is the largest amount ever for the schemes. This allocation has facilitated the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 43, 45, 50 and 72 together. The Programme for Government commits to expanding and incentivising micro-generation to help households generate renewable electricity for their own use and to sell excess electricity back to the grid. Under the Climate Action Plan, a Micro-Generation working group, chaired by my Department, is developing an enabling framework...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 44 and 51 together. My Department funds a number of SEAI grant schemes to support homeowners to improve the energy efficiency of their properties. Since 2000, over 450,000 homeowners have upgraded their homes with support from these schemes, representing nearly one home in four across the country. This has resulted in warmer, healthier and more...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Communities Energy Grant Scheme (CEG) makes grant funding available for community-based partnerships to improve the energy efficiency of the building stock in their area and to install renewables.  The Scheme provides funding support for projects that deliver energy savings to a range of homeowners, communities and private sector organisations. This cross-sectoral approach...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Flexible Work Practices (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: My Department is currently working in line with Government COVID 19 guidance, which provides for home working to continue where possible. Over the period of the pandemic staff in the Department have worked hard under difficult circumstances to advance and deliver on our vision of a climate neutral, sustainable and digitally connected Ireland.   A central policy framework for Blended...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 48 and 87 together. On 18 May 2021, the Government's Policy Statement on the Importation of Fracked Gas was published. The policy statement provides that pending the outcome of a review of the security of energy supply of Ireland’s electricity and natural gas systems being carried out by my Department, it would not be appropriate for the development of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (the CRU) has statutory responsibility, under S.I. 60 of 2005, to ensure security of electricity supply. The CRU has the duty to monitor electricity supplies and to take such measures as it considers necessary to protect security of supply. It is assisted in its statutory role by EirGrid, Irelands’ electricity transmission system operator,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: In May of this year, my Department held a series of climate conversations under the National Dialogue for Climate Action (NDCA), including a broad Public Consultation where we heard from 4,000 people, communities and organisations capturing their views on the climate challenge, their perceived capacity to act to combat climate change, and what Government needs to do to make it easier to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 56 and 67 together. The Warmth and Wellbeing pilot scheme aims to objectively measure and validate the health and wellbeing impacts of improving the living conditions of vulnerable people living in energy poverty with chronic respiratory conditions. The scheme is a collaboration between my Department and the Department of Health and is jointly...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government commits to expanding and incentivising micro-generation to help people generate renewable electricity for their own use and sell excess electricity back to the grid. Under the Climate Action Plan, a Micro-Generation working group, chaired by my Department, is developing an enabling framework for micro-generation which tackles existing barriers and establishes...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: My Department has engaged with relevant public bodies such as  the Department of Social Protection, the National Disability Authority, the HSE, and  the Department of Health and  representative organisations such as Family Carer’s Ireland, Age Action, the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, the Irish Wheelchair Association, Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland and Multiple...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 61 and 62 together. The Government is committed to a just transition in the Midlands region and has dedicated significant funding to supporting workers, companies and communities affected by the closure of the peat-fired power stations and the end of peat harvesting by Bord na Móna. The Government approved funding of €108 million for Bord...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Waste Framework Directive provides a framework whereby material recovered or recycled from waste may be considered to no longer be waste.  As the competent authority in Ireland for End of Waste determinations is the EPA, questions in relation to applications are more appropriately directed to that Agency than to myself, and I have asked the EPA to respond directly to the Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The carbon capture and storage (CCS) feasibility study, which is being carried out by Ervia, comprises a desktop study examining technical, economic, safety, regulatory, and environmental aspects of capturing, transporting and storing CO2emissions. Ervia has provided regular updates to the Steering Group, established to examine the feasibility of CCS in Ireland under the 2019 Climate Action...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021, establishes a legally binding framework with clear targets and commitments set in law, and provides that the necessary structures and processes are embedded on a statutory basis to ensure Ireland achieves its national, EU and international climate goals and obligations in the near and long term. The Act requires...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 provides that each carbon budget is to represent the total amount of greenhouse gases that may be emitted in the State during each 5 year period, measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. This in and of itself is a target.The carbon budgets will be consistent with furthering the achievement of the national climate...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Climate Change Advisory Council will have a role in the consideration of progress in relation to our emissions targets. The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 requires that the Minister for Climate Action must give an account annually to a Joint Committee of the Oireachtas for compliance with the carbon budget and progress under the Climate Action Plan. The...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 provides that carbon budgets will be prepared and updated every five years. It will be the responsibility of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communication to prepare, within the limits of the carbon budget, the maximum amount of greenhouse gas emissions that are permitted in different sectors of the economy...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Flexible Work Practices (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: My Department is currently working in line with Government COVID 19 guidance, which provides for home working to continue where possible. Over the period of the pandemic staff in the Department have worked hard under difficult circumstances to advance and deliver on our vision of a climate neutral, sustainable and digitally connected Ireland. A central policy framework for Blended Working in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy details the measures that will be adopted to achieve optimum results in the area of plastics and packaging. The over-riding objective is to ensure that all packaging placed on the Irish market is reusable or recyclable in an economically viable way by 2030. It sets out a level of ambition which will position Ireland as a frontrunner towards the...