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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Quality (23 Apr 2024)

James Browne: .... Through the implementation of the Clean Air Strategy this Government will ensure continuous reductions in air pollution levels. Monitoring and modelling of air pollution carried out by the EPA is essential to help us better understand where issues are arising so that we may ensure national measures are in place to deliver air pollution reductions and look to target policy measures to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Quality (23 Apr 2024)

James Browne: ...of the road transport fleet, taking action in regard to ammonia, improving the energy efficiency of our homes and reducing our reliance on solid fuels. The provision of data from the EPA, including the annual inventory and projections, as well as our enhanced national ambient air quality monitoring programme, gives us a comprehensive evidence base to tackle the source of air pollution...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (26 Oct 2022)

James Browne: ...for Government sets out clear and ambitious commitments to ensure that Irish Water accelerates the resolution of schemes on the remedial action list of the Environmental Protection Authority, EPA, including that the formation of THMs is minimised. We are also continuing to invest in a multi-annual capital funding programme to improve the quality of drinking water in community owned and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (26 Oct 2022)

James Browne: ...consist of water treatment plant upgrades, a new connection or water schemes being taken in charge by Irish Water. The works to resolve the water quality issue are being funded under the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage's multi-annual rural water programme. As the Senator said, the European Commission first raised the issue of THM compliance in Ireland back in 2014....

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Sep 2021)

James Browne: ...to some very distant places but our history and tradition is still there. I wish MARA the best as a key agency. It will be in a county where we already have the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It is a crucial agency to support the Maritime Area Planning Bill and to ensure it will be effective in ensuring the protection of...

Environmental Policy: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2019)

James Browne: ...Party for introducing this motion. It is an important motion on clean air. I wish to focus particularly on the issue of smoky coal. Smoky coal is a significant contributor to air pollution. The EPA estimates that 1,500 premature deaths are caused each year by air pollution. The HSE has, in response to a parliamentary question I tabled, estimated that the economic cost to the State of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Quality (12 Jun 2019)

James Browne: ...Professor John Sodeau stated this week that air pollution in my home town of Enniscorthy has reached an extremely dangerous level. There have been 12 breaches of Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, safety limits since Christmas. Some of these have reached ten times the EU safe limits. Asthma sufferers living in Enniscorthy, New Ross and Gorey have been warned to stay indoors during...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (24 Apr 2018)

James Browne: ..., Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 621 and 622 of 23 January 2018, if a feasibility study will be examined in conjunction with Wexford County Council, the EPA, Trinity College Dublin and a company (details supplied) in view of the findings and recommendations of a report; if the feasibility study will examine the conversion of sludge cake into fuel for...