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Annual Transition Statement: Statements (15 Jun 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We are in a climate emergency. Report after report highlights the escalating reality of global warming and the need for urgent mitigations. As the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, stated last month, it is long past the time for climate rhetoric. What we need is climate action. Unfortunately, the Government, like the previous one, is ignoring some of the small wins and the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...be safe to drink in the future or whether the people in this area can expect boil water notices every time it rains heavily. During the last notice, my party leader raised with the Government an EPA report on the Leixlip plant, published in March of this year, which found serious operational failures that could have led to contamination. The report issued eight recommendations and...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Oct 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yesterday, the EPA produced its urban wastewater treatment report for 2017. The report found that wastewater treatment is completely insufficient in many areas and highlighted the fact that despite some improvements, 38 towns and villages across the State still discharge raw sewage into the environment. The report also stated that wastewater treatment in 28 of the State's 179 large towns...