Results 1-20 of 31 for epa speaker:Micheál Martin

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: ...When he was Minister of State, Senator Malcolm Noonan, did a lot of good work and I worked very well with him on this agenda. I hear what the Deputy is saying regarding the centrality of the Department of agriculture but if it was left on its own, we might not get what he is looking for, and I do not mean that in an disparaging way as other stakeholders have to be involved as well....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: ..., such projects cannot get off the ground. A memorandum of understanding is being developed by Uisce Éireann in respect of that issue to set out the proposals to enable it to happen. On the separation of storm water from sewage, I will not profess I am not as technically competent as the Deputy in this area. Likewise, the Deputy mentioned the Environmental Protection Agency,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy knows that the emissions inventory report of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, from July 2024 shows a decrease of 6.8% in Ireland's greenhouse gas in 2023 compared with 2022, which itself saw a 1.9% reduction on the previous year. This is the lowest that our greenhouse gas emissions have been in three decades below the 1990 baseline. That is significant given that in that...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (9 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: ...level of capital to Irish Water over the next while. However, I am absolutely clear that this has to be tied to new supply to enable housing and infrastructural development around the entire country. We also have to look at the regulatory framework to get a proper balance between compliance, EPA compliance and so on, and new development and new wastewater treatment plants in new areas...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: ..., climate action, energy and emergency planning. The programme for Government sets out a strong framework for climate action and continues to place it at the heart of the work of all Departments. It commits to a continuation of the publication of annual updates to the climate action plan and quarterly progress reports focusing on a smaller number of strategic and high-impact actions...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Micheál Martin: ...Reform, for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Minister for Social Protection and for Rural and Community Development. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, data for 2023 shows that Irish water quality, while improving in some areas, is a matter of ongoing concern and requires concerted effort to achieve the improvement that we seek....

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...