Results 1-9 of 9 for epa speaker:Dara Calleary

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nitrates Usage (21 Nov 2023)

Dara Calleary: ...year, the Minister for agriculture, Deputy McConalogue, engaged with the Commission to revisit the conditionality around the two-year water quality review. In June the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, reported the outcome of the review. Its report identified a significant area of the country that had failed at least one of the four criteria prescribed by the Commission. In...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Wastewater Treatment Facilities (30 May 2023)

Dara Calleary: .... I congratulate you on your election and wish you success for your term, however long it may be. On behalf of the Minister, I thank the Senator for raising this issue. As he knows, the Department builds its water services strategic policy and infrastructure delivery programmes around Project Ireland 2040, the water services policy statement 2018-2025 and the river basin management...

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Dara Calleary: ..., Deputy Noonan, and the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, on the funding secured and on the implementation plan relating to this report. The report is a credit to them, their advisers and the Department. Yesterday, I was struck by Deputy Whitmore's comment to the effect that the NPWS has moved around seven different locations. At least it now has a permanent home and can lay down...

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

Dara Calleary: I thank the Tánaiste. The Minister, Deputy Bruton, has been in office 2011 in various Departments, a period during which a lot of the targets were missed. The Government has my party's support. It was my party that proposed that the carbon tax funding be ring-fenced for initiatives such as increasing the quality of our housing supply and a just transition for the midlands in...

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

Dara Calleary: ...the Dáil and everyone involved in the work this week. There will be time this afternoon to reflect further on that report. The report issued overnight by the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, shows that Ireland will exceed its climate change emissions targets by up to 6% for 2018, which is the third year in a row we will have exceeded those targets. We are 5 million tonnes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Plant Certification: Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (2 Apr 2019)

Dara Calleary: The EPA licence was renewed. Surely it may have had questions if there is a major change in the fuel.

Flood Insurance Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Nov 2016)

Dara Calleary: ...proposed a Shannon river authority, but I think the time has come for one single river authority in Ireland because, time and time again, State agency plays off Stage agency. The OPW blames the EPA, which blames the local authorities which blame the ESB and in the end, homes, people and families get flooded and cannot get insurance. What we have got to do is stop the blame culture, and...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Dara Calleary: ...sold us one pig this year. We will see the colour of that next week. Having said that, I have no reason to doubt the Minister's intentions in this regard. He tells us that the standards the EPA currently has in place, the 2009 guidelines, will not apply to all septic tanks. We have that in writing, he said it in this House and in the Seanad. In that regard, I commend my party...

Chemicals (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (19 Oct 2010)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Deputies for their contributions. This Bill does not impose any additional obligations on industry. The regulatory impact assessment which was prepared for the 2008 Act included the CLP regulation, which was a draft EU regulation at that stage. It was not adopted in time for full inclusion in the Act but we included the provisions and obligations of the CLP in the regulatory...