Results 1-20 of 25 for epa speaker:Micheál Martin

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Nuclear Safety (25 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: ..., and engages actively in the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and under the Convention on Nuclear Safety, with the UK and with EU partners to this end. Officials from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), engage regularly with UK counterparts and relevant regulators, including under the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...of humanitarian NGOs, and international delegates supported by Irish Aid. I also met with a number of academics and students from UCC and UCD, second level students, and with a representative of the EPA. In my engagements, I highlighted Ireland's ambition to see progress on the issue of loss and damage and on the implementation of commitments to take action to mitigate climate change,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: ..., and on the legal consequences of climate change. While there I met with a number of Irish youth climate advocates, representatives of humanitarian NGOs, a number of academics and students from UCC and UCD, and with a representative from the EPA.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Climate Change Negotiations (22 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: ..., and on the legal consequences of climate change. While there I met with a number of Irish youth climate advocates, representatives of humanitarian NGOs, a number of academics and students from UCC and UCD, and with a representative from the EPA.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: ..., and on the legal consequences of climate change. While there I met with a number of Irish youth climate advocates, representatives of humanitarian NGOs, a number of academics and students from UCC and UCD, and with a representative from the EPA.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: We have the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and various mechanisms to oversee any application of the kind the Deputy referred to. We cannot arbitrate for that on the floor of the House. Again, regarding any fresh investigation, there has been a whole series of reviews and I am not going to give an off-the-cuff response to the Deputy's request either. I will talk to the Tánaiste...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: I have made it clear that there is an enormous challenge ahead of us in climate change, which the EPA report identifies. We always made it clear as well that it would be the latter half of the decade before some of the decisions we have taken will bear fruit, including investments in a range of areas such as retrofitting, electric vehicles, EVs, and agricultural investments. The carbon tax...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...view, the plan that we have put forward is transformative. It details what we must do to meet this challenge in terms of reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions by 51% by 2030. I agree with the EPA that implementation is key, in terms of the urgent implementation of climate plans and policies. The sectoral emissions ceilings will be brought before the Cabinet shortly by the Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...and the campaign of Pat and Nuala Geoghegan, I have not gone over all of the documentation recently but, if my recollection is correct, there was significant work by the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. I do not have the documents Deputy Paul Murphy says he has with regard to the Industrial Development Authority, IDA Ireland. The issue was examined from a health perspective and by...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...provided. That is necessary. In terms of Aughinish Alumina and Pat Geoghegan, I recall meeting him back in the period from 2000 to 2004 when I was Minister for Health and Children. My understanding is the EPA had done a lot of research at the time in terms of the implications of Aughinish Alumina and the health assessments and so on and it had not been established by statutory...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...to ensure adherence to the strict laws governing industrial projects of this kind, including manufacturing entities, mining entities and refining entities. I will refer the Deputy's remarks to the EPA and will seek a reply from it regarding this matter.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Nov 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...significant achievement by Irish Water on the wastewater treatment system that is now operational and in place in the lower harbour region of Cork and significant progress was made there. The EPA, however, has issued its report in respect of 34 towns. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has allocated in the past two budgets and in the July stimulus package significant...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...prefer much faster connections and so forth. Water and housing are inextricably linked. In addition, the quality of water is very important. There are many pollutants, as the Deputy knows from the EPA study this week. The problems we have were in its urban wastewater report, which was published a few weeks ago. Again, there are issues. With regard to the local authority, that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Jun 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...pertains and prevails in respect of the minimisation of waste and the facilitation of the circular economy. The Minister will bring in legislation on the circular economy. Regarding the EPA and fracked gas, we are opposed to fracked gas and the importation of it. The Government has been very clear on that. According to the European legal framework and the law in terms of single...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Reports (18 May 2021)

Micheál Martin: My Department has collated and submitted details to the EPA, in line with Circular 20/2019 and accompanying guidelines, of procurement contracts valued greater than €25,000 and how many include green criteria. This information will be included in the Department’s 2020 Annual Report which will be published on gov.ie in due course. My Department is updating its Corporate...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...up from 107 the previous year. The bathing waters expert group has been asked again to see what we can do to improve that even further. River water quality is a real problem for the country and the EPA has published a number of studies on that, which we need to be very attentive to and deal with. That is why I am very impatient that we get going on a number of measures that can reduce...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...up the infrastructure in the towns. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae's point is valid that where towns do not have sewage treatment facilities, that presents an additional difficulty. We considered the EPA report yesterday, for example, at the climate change Cabinet sub-committee. We are down to approximately 20 clean rivers in the country. That is not the fault of housing. That could be the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...Agency's recent report demonstrates that Irish Water is making progress and is improving our wastewater systems. Irish Water has reduced the number of priority wastewater sites listed by the EPA and has increased the number of large towns and cities that now meet the required European Union standards for wastewater discharges. The agency itself will say that it has a long and complex...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: ...issue, the HSE estimates that the cost to the Exchequer of poor air quality and associated health impacts is approximately €2 billion a year. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, confirms the extraordinary impact of the introduction by the then Minister, Mary Harney, of the smoky coal ban in 1990 on air quality. The medical evidence shows a reduction in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: Clean air is a vital public health interest and it is inseparable from the challenge of climate change. In 1990, while Minister of State, Mary Harney introduced a ban on smoky coal use within the Dublin region. This decision had a very radical and beneficial impact on public health and the environment. It saved many lives and improved the quality of health in others, as well as the quality...