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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Lynn Boylan: ...a good neighbour but around wealth taxes, and the importance of collecting the data on wealth taxes. I know that my own party certainly repeatedly has tried to have wealth taxes costed by the Department but it has refused to do it. The Department has stated it does not actually collect the data. It was the same with the private jet tax. We were told that the Department does not monitor...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (28 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: In June 2022, with work on the sectoral emissions ceilings almost complete, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its latest emissions projections, showing net Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) emissions as being projected to rise from 7 to 11 MtCO2eq. in 2030; and 2018 base year emissions having changed from 4.8 to 6.3 MtCO2eq. For this reason, it was decided at...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (28 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...of greater than 50 hectares requires both planning consent from a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála, and Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) licensing from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), both of which regimes require EIA to be carried out by the respective competent authorities (i.e. planning authority and the EPA) and also AA if relevant. As the current legislative...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (28 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Darragh O'Brien: There are currently three separate Domestic Waste Water Treatment System (DWWTS) grant schemes, commonly known as Septic Tank Grants, available to householders. The purpose of the grants is to provide financial assistance to householders to repair or upgrade septic tanks. In order to avail of the grants, householders must have failed an inspection under the National Inspection Plan and be...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Climate Change Policy (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...carbon products and services. That means thinking about switching to renewable electricity, reducing transportation emissions, and redesigning supply chains for circularity and sustainability. My Department is pro-actively engaging Irish businesses in the many opportunities for decarbonisation, and integrating climate action into all aspects of the Department and its agencies’...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...so we can inform policy-making to target these high-net-worth individuals and this overconsumption. We cannot do this unless we have the data. I have repeatedly called here for the need for the EPA and the CSO to collect the data so we can have the likes of wealth taxes, which Sinn Féin has repeatedly called for but the Government refuses to cost. I refer as well to taxes on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. Kenny Jacobs: We found it in very low levels. It is not in any water and we are removing that soil anyway. We have done this fully in co-operation with Fingal County Council and the EPA. We have done the right thing here. We are being very cautious and diligent. Again, these are very low levels but if PFAS are found at any level, the soil must be removed and that is what we are doing.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nitrates Usage (21 Nov 2023)

Dara Calleary: ...year, the Minister for agriculture, Deputy McConalogue, engaged with the Commission to revisit the conditionality around the two-year water quality review. In June the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, reported the outcome of the review. Its report identified a significant area of the country that had failed at least one of the four criteria prescribed by the Commission. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

...a phlé. I am speaking in a personal capacity but drawing on my experience as a member of the expert advisory group on the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, and previously as a senior manager with the EPA, the Marine Institute, fishery boards and the Department of the marine. Based on hearings held by the committee since September, it is clear there are some positive...

Science Week: Statements (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...and help us with that very transformative task of innovation and the application of knowledge to the things we are doing in our daily lives. Last week we heard the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, report that two thirds of the waste which is dumped into municipal waste should not be there in the first place. That is not a complicated issue but I will say that many families are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...be changed and it needs to be changed to provide for public ownership and the re-municipalisation of waste collection throughout the country. The statistics speak for themselves. According to the EPA, the municipal waste generation trend in quantity terms is going in the wrong direction and increasing steadily. Recycling levels have plateaued since 2010, at 41%, well below the EU...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...have that, it will be hard to mobilise change. We need to bring not just the Bill itself but also the principles. Savings are being made on waste management at the same time as the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, reported during the week that two thirds of what goes into municipal waste should not be there at all. We have a problem in waste management. Again, rapid change will be...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (16 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...budgets and sectoral emissions ceilings has provided more urgent and sector-specific emissions reduction targets set over the 5-year budgetary periods. The latest emissions reports from the EPA highlight the challenge Ireland faces in meeting its highly ambitious climate objectives and legally-binding emissions targets. While the EPA’s projections show that greenhouse gas...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (16 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 107 and 110 together. Data from the EPA's inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the years 1990 to 2022 show that Ireland's emissions have reduced by 3.1% over the past six years. The most recent EPA inventory figures show that Ireland's emissions fell by 1.8% between 2021 and 2022. This latest reduction was driven by higher fuel prices, reduced...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Supply (16 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...) Regulations 2018 provide for the establishment of a register of abstractions of water of more than 25 cubic metres per day. The register is maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The 2018 Regulations provide that the EPA shall publish by electronic means, and in such abridged manner as it thinks fit, details of registered water abstractions. The EPA may share...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (16 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department provides financial support through the domestic waste water treatment system (DWWTS) grant schemes to assist householders carry out works to their defective septic tanks. The grants are focused on the areas of greatest environmental priority to protect human health and the environment. They include a grant for necessary works where an advisory notice has been issued after an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (16 Nov 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...nutrients and warm settled weather. Algal blooms are not specifically monitored for in the national water-monitoring programme, as, by their nature, they can be relatively short-lived events. My Department is currently preparing Ireland’s third-cycle River Basin Management Plan, which will be a strategic government plan that will outline the national policies and high-level goals...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...undermining of councillors' powers. Councillors still have quite considerable powers, functions and roles, and it is important to exercise them. Accountability and transparency in local government is vitally important, in particular in light of the EPA report produced yesterday which shed a very negative light on some local authorities in terms of their environmental performance and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Nov 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may be aware, the primary legislation dealing with noise pollution is the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992. The Act designates the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the primary body responsible for regulation of noise pollution. The EPA is also the sole designated prosecuting authority for offences under the Act. Any review of the existing legislation to provide...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Steven Matthews: ..., will be the next election but we never know. I hope the Electoral Commission will focus on how to get that information out there properly and work on the disinformation aspects of elections. Deputy Connolly spoke earlier about today's EPA report on local authorities' environmental enforcement reporting. Not only do we need to make sure our local councillors are resourced, have powers...