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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: ...of Bord na Móna's plans to sell off its waste management business, as was reported recently. This risks further concentration of waste management services, which is potentially bad for workers and customers. It is further privatisation when the opposite should be happening. Is the Taoiseach aware of the plan and has he or the Government assessed it in terms of competition, terms...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: In today's Ireland, hundreds of thousands of ordinary workers and families face an impossible situation. They are confronted with a housing crisis of unprecedented proportion. Successive Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Green Governments have utterly failed on housing. Bad planning, mismanagement and downright dereliction have resulted in one of the worst shortages of social and affordable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: One of the issues that has been highlighted with regard to this process is the delay with the Department getting these submissions prepared and submitted. My sense is that there are capacity constraints. That is reflected in some of what we saw from the EPA this morning. What was the reason for the delay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: What is the position on the delay regarding the long-term strategy and the NECP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I appreciate there are increasing numbers but I do not see the primacy of this stuff within government and across Departments. That is reflected in my experience at this committee. These matters need to be issues for more than an individual Department. They need to be issues across government. Unallocated emissions savings are in the region of 5.25 megatonnes per year in the second carbon...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: Is it the Minister's position that there are no capacity constraints within his Department? Consider the position if we go section by section. Regarding transport, for example, the Connecting Ireland programme, which entails rolling out rural transport services and which everybody universally agrees upon and supports, is supposed to involve a five-year plan. However, at this rate it will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on building works at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23828/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on building works at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23827/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how frequently the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the proposed floating storage and regasification unit will need to be replenished, if approved, given the inevitable boil-off of LNG over time; where this gas will be sourced; what measures will be taken to minimise the frequency of this occurrence; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated length of time a proposed temporary floating storage and regasification unit, if approved, would be in operation in Ireland until a carbon neutral energy system is in place and we are no longer reliant on gas for our energy security; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23621/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the will report on the excellence in energy efficient design scheme; the funding available to be drawn down; how much funding was drawn down; the number of grants awarded; the average amount awarded in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23841/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the support scheme for renewable heat; the funding available to be drawn down; the amount of funding was drawn down; the number of grants awarded; the average amount awarded in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23842/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost to increase the capital funding for the better energy warmer homes scheme by 50%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23867/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average cost of achieving a B2 BER cost optimum standard in the better energy warmer homes scheme to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23868/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to estimate the cost of including properties with HAP tenancies in the SEAI warmer homes scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23869/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of doubling the climate action fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23870/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the supports available from his Department for businesses to decarbonise; if he will provide a breakdown of schemes; the amount of funding available to be drawn down per scheme ; the amount of funding drawn down per scheme; the number of grants awarded per scheme; the average amount awarded in 2020, 2021, 2022,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of increasing the social housing retrofitting over a five-year period, rising incrementally between 20% in year 1, by 30% in year 2, by 50% in year 3, by 75% in year 4 and by 100% in year 5, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23865/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (28 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of increasing the social housing retrofitting budget by 50%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23866/24]

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (23 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: ...to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 to give the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (CRU) the legislative remit to effectively monitor wholesale and retail prices in the energy market; to increase the frequency and level of reporting; to effectively monitor and regulate hedging practices; to strengthen the Commission's powers to monitor...