Results 1-20 of 56 for epa speaker:Seán Fleming

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Fleming: I am taking this Commencement matter on behalf of my colleague the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan. I thank Senator Lynn Boylan for raising this topic. The EPA is responsible for compiling the inventories of greenhouse gas emissions for Ireland and for reporting data to the relevant European and international institutions. As such, Ireland's legal...

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...compared to some of the more significant pressures identified in the Draft River Basin Management Plan 2022-2027. Detailed assessments of our water bodies by the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and the local authority waters programme, LAWPRO, as part of our river basin management planning cycles will aim to refine and identify the most significant abstraction pressures. This will...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Seán Fleming: ...that do not pay carbon tax, such as those involved in electricity generation and certain energy-intensive work such as steel work and cement works, come under the scope of the EU emissions trading scheme. There is a separate scheme for large companies in Ireland, which includes very large institutions. Some of the larger hospitals, such as St. James's and so on, would be included in this...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Seán Fleming: ...reduction obligations. This is a simple statement of fact and is what we are not hearing today. There is only one organisation that I do want to compliment under the partnership bit on this and that is the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, which is the competent authority to ensure compliance. I am pleased to see that in 2018 - again we got this information at the Committee of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes. This was mentioned before. Vodafone and St. James's Hospital were fined by the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, because of their failure to purchase and surrender carbon credits before the deadline. We encountered that some time ago. We asked the EPA's representatives about it when they appeared before the committee. It has now appeared in the financial statement for St....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is fine. We will note that as well as the issue of non-compliant procurement to which our attention has been drawn and the EPA fine. No. 4.2 is the clear audit opinion for the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. The item following that, No. 4.3, is Pobal's 2018 accounts, which also feature non-compliant procurement. We will send the standard letter to Pobal regardless...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...Protection Agency at a meeting of this committee on 18 April regarding the Aughinish plant in County Limerick. I propose to request the correspondent's consent to forward the documentation to the EPA for response to the matters raised. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 2372C, dated 6 August, is from an individual querying the frequency and necessity of road repairs and resurfacing in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: Coincidentally, as a result of the State Claims Agency's earlier visits, I asked the Department of Justice and Equality - I can share the PQs - all the agencies under the aegis of various Departments that had powers to take prosecutions, such as the EPA and the fisheries boards. I asked for the number of prosecutions taken by each of the agencies. The agencies all got back to me in letter...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is another day's work but we would probably agree with that. Next is correspondence No. 2336 from Mr. Brendan Gleeson, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We asked him to give the committee a list of the property sites managed by the Department around the country and the number of Labour Court settlements involving former employees of Bord na gCon. That is on page 8....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will hold it over for next week. Also held over from last week's meetings is No. 2231B from Mr. John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, dated 7 June, and providing an update to an inquiry the committee made in regard to a protected disclosure regarding St. Munchin's community centre, Limerick. We had received anonymous correspondence...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...next item is from from the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Charlie Flanagan, dated 10 May 2019, providing information requested by the committee on proposed legislation regarding the court poor box. A reparation fund is to be established which will be used to provide additional funding for services for victims of crimes and compensation payments by the Criminal Injuries...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: ..., two operators failed to comply with their obligations to surrender emissions trading allowances to cover their emissions for 2017. The two operators were St. James's Hospital and Vodafone. The EPA proceeded with enforcement action under EU regulations which resulted in a penalty for St. James's Hospital of €210,000 and the agency is working with St. James's Hospital on a payment...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: We had a good meeting with the EPA some weeks ago. Two weeks is more than long enough for a Secretary General to provide a response. We will follow up the matter directly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: If we have not received a response on this day two weeks, it will be well over one month and we will set a date for representatives of the EPA to come and tell us why it has not responded. I am taking that approach to get people to act properly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...There are three categories. Category A consists of the opening statements and documents in connection with today's meeting. Nos. 2105A and 2117A are from the office of the director general of the EPA and are contained in our briefing document and opening statement. We will note and publish those. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next item is correspondence from Accounting Officers and...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are meeting the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, in respect of its 2017 financial statements. We joined from the EPA by Ms Laura Burke, director general, who is accompanied by Mr. Gerard O'Leary, Dr. Tom Ryan and Mr. Dan Harney. The representatives from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment are Ms Caroline Lyons and Ms Aoife Byrne. I remind members,...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Page 12 features a table on legal enforcement activity. The EPA had fines and costs awarded in the District Courts and the Circuit Courts totalling €390,074 in 2017. Are those fines payable to the EPA or to the courts?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is the EPA not involved in collection thereafter?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I ask that because I submitted a parliamentary question this week asking about the number of fines or prosecutions taken to court by the EPA. The Minister replied that this was not the responsibility of the Dáil. I have asked this question across all public bodies. The Courts Service will come before the committee in a few weeks and we want to see where fines imposed on behalf of...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: The EPA has a role in river basin management plans in respect of water quality. I am aware that there are seven or eight river basin management plans in place. In my area the rivers Barrow, Nore and Suir go into one area. I am sure the River Shannon and the River Liffey have similar plans. From the EPA's perspective, which area's management plan poses the most difficulty with regard to...