Results 161-180 of 382 for 5 million speaker:Eamon Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Warmer Homes Scheme (3 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...energy efficiency measures provided to households under the Better Energy Warmer Homes scheme was over €14,800. Funding for the SEAI energy poverty retrofit schemes has increased to over €109 million in 2021. This is an increase of €47 million on the 2020 allocation and means that almost half of the total SEAI residential and community retrofit budget will support...

Seanad: Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (26 Feb 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...implications for the public transport sector as fare revenues have plummeted. As part of the 2021 Estimates process, my Department secured significantly higher than normal levels of funding of €670 million for public service obligation, PSO, and Local Link services. Most recently, Government approved an extension of the temporary supports for the commercial bus sector, which were...

Covid-19 (Transport and Travel): Statements (10 Feb 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...cycling facilities, revised bus routings and bus priority measures, and enhanced pedestrian priority zones. Letters were issued to all 31 local authorities in May, resulting in more than €15 million being requested for this purpose and the works identified being funded through my Department's sustainable mobility investment programme. With the additional funding provided under...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (10 Feb 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...Scheme (EDRRS) on 24 November 2020 reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to a just transition for workers in the Midlands. The scheme includes the provision of funding in the order of €108 million for implementation costs over a period of 5 years. The scheme will, over time, employ 307 people, some of whom will be engaged on a seasonal basis, with 210 full time...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (3 Feb 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...informed changes to energy efficiency grant schemes with further recommendations to follow later this year; - Funding for SEAI energy poverty retrofit schemes has increased dramatically over the period from €15 million in 2015 to over €109 million for 2021. - The allocations for retrofit of social housing have also increased significantly with an allocation of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Remote Working (3 Feb 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...from 28% to 17.4% over the lifetime of the strategy.  Research also shows that the proportion of people who report that they are unable to afford to keep the home adequately warm, has fallen from 9% in 2015 to 4.4% in 2019.     Improving the energy efficiency of a home can protect households from energy poverty. Budget 2021 provided €221.5 million in capital...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Warmer Homes Scheme (3 Feb 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...rules. Unfortunately, COVID-19 related restrictions have also impacted waiting times under the scheme. Works are currently suspended in line with the public health measures in place under Level 5 as announced by Government on 6 January. Works will recommence as soon as the public health advice allows. SEAI's Covid-19 Notice can be found at the following Link: Budget 2021 provided...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Fund (28 Jan 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...Department held a competitive call for applications to this Fund, which closed on 17 July 2020, in response to which over 100 applications were received. Provisional offers of funding totalling €29 million have now been made to 63 projects, of which 16 have already concluded funding agreements with my Department. Further information on these projects is available on . Of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (21 Jan 2021)

Eamon Ryan: .... Partial grants are available for individuals that can afford to contribute to the cost of upgrades as well as free energy efficiency retrofits for people at risk of energy poverty. €221.5 million in capital funding has been provided this year through my Department's Vote to the SEAI for residential and community retrofit schemes. This represents an 82% increase on the 2020...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Strategies (14 Jan 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government (Our Shared Future) outlines the goals of this Government within its lifetime. My Department has responsibility for 54 commitments under the current Programme and is committed to working on their delivery. These commitments form the backbone of my Department’s new Statement of Strategy (to be published shortly) and the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Warmer Homes Scheme (13 Jan 2021)

Eamon Ryan: .... To date over 142,000 homes have received free upgrades under the scheme, leaving the occupants better able to afford to heat their homes to an adequate level.   Budget 2021 provided €109 million in capital funding to support lower income households to retrofit their homes with €100 million of this funding allocated to the Warmer Homes Scheme. This represents a...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Directive: Motions (15 Dec 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...it, is that we are not yet at the end of the year and we will not know our final year figure until next year. There may need to be a balancing of a much smaller volume, of the order of €4 million or €5 million. It could be more or less: it is hard to know until we get the statistical analysis as to what the final outcome is this year. That option is on the balancing...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Protection Enforcement (8 Dec 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...at a number of former mining sites at Silvermines.  The Department continues to fund an ongoing programme of environmental monitoring at Silvermines. Work has been substantially completed on 5 of the 6 sites with expenditure amounting to €11.19m. The Gortmore Tailings Management Facility was the largest site remediated at a cost of €6 million. The site is...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Pollution (8 Dec 2020)

Eamon Ryan: .... The Irish cities involved in the study were Dublin and Cork. The report quantified and valued pollution-related health impacts, concluding that the total annual per capita cost is €836 in Dublin, and €756 in Cork. The overall average per capita cost across the EU was €1,276 per annum.  While Ireland compares favourably to much of Europe, we are taking the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (8 Dec 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ..., covering the period 2017 – 2021, in response to the structural challenges faced by the postal sector. In order to implement the Plan, the cost of which was estimated to be in the region of €150m, the Minister for Finance provided a loan of €30m to the company in December 2017 to support the renewal of the post office network (€15m) and the continued fulfilment...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (1 Dec 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...the period 2017 – 2021, in response to the structural challenges faced by the postal sector. In order to implement the Plan, the cost of which was estimated to be in the region of €150m, the Minister for Finance provided a loan of €30m to the company in December 2017 to support the renewal of the post office network (€15m) and the continued fulfilment of a 5...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (25 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 29 and 35 together. In the four years since the Private Members motion referred to was debated a lot of work has been done to ensure An Post and the post office network remain viable. An Post put in place a Strategic Plan, covering the period 2017 – 2021, in response to the structural challenges faced by the postal sector. In order to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (25 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...invested over €3 billion. This was primarily on upgrading and modernising networks which support the provision of high speed broadband and mobile telecommunications services. Today over 1.78m or 75% of premises in Ireland can access commercially available high speed broadband services. At end Q2 2020, fixed broadband subscriptions had increased to 1.49million, an increase of 3.4%...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (24 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 175 to 178, inclusive,196, 200, 202 and 203 together. In the four years since the Private Members motion referred to was debated a lot of work has been done to ensure An Post and the post office network remain viable.  An Post put in place a Strategic Plan, covering the period 2017 – 2021, in response to the structural challenges...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (24 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...in the rented sector has also been completed with recommendations to follow in 2021; - Funding for SEAI energy poverty retrofit schemes has increased dramatically over the period from €15 million in 2015 to over €109 million in Budget 2021. - The allocations for retrofit of social housing have also increased significantly with an allocation of €65 million for...