Results 81-100 of 218 for 5 million speaker:Eamon Ryan

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (19 Dec 2007)

Eamon Ryan: ...to medium term. Building national energy research capacity and capability has already been identified as an area for priority attention. The Charles Parsons awards have already committed €20 million for the period 2007 to 2012 to progressively develop energy research capacity in third level institutions. The Programme for Government also commits to enhancing the remit of Science...

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (15 May 2008)

Eamon Ryan: I launched a pilot Home Energy Saving Scheme on 24 April. The pilot scheme, for which funding of €5 million is provided in 2008, is designed to encourage owners of older homes to improve the energy efficiency of their homes, primarily through insulation measures. The ongoing results of the pilot scheme will inform the roll-out of the full scale national scheme envisaged in the Programme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...a good one and this national climate and energy plan structure is right because it says we have to think 30 years in advance. We have to think big and that we will be doing 20 GW of offshore and 5 GW of interconnection. A million homes are going to have to be retrofitted and we are going to have to spend €5 billion on social homes. It is that kind of big thinking. We have to...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (10 Apr 2008)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 221 and 223 together. I have provided €2.5 million to Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI) in 2008 to fund the Warmer Homes Scheme. This scheme provides insulation and other energy efficiency solutions to low income homes across Ireland. The service is coordinated by SEI and is delivered principally through community based organisations. The scheme is...

Written Answers — Community Support Scheme: Community Support Scheme (27 Nov 2007)

Eamon Ryan: The €5 million Community Support Scheme, recommended by the Report of the Independent Group, will focus primarily on those communities where commercial salmon fishing has been a well-established activity and where its withdrawal demonstrably impacts on the economic and social fabric, for example, Gaeltacht areas. The scheme is to be administered by my Department in conjunction with the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Authorities (10 Nov 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I was delighted to oversee a significant increase in spending on Active Travel infrastructure projects over the last number of years. In 2021, my Department provided €313 million to the National Transport Authority for allocation to local authorities around the country and the total allocation for 2022 is €289 million. When compared to 2019 funding allocations to Active Travel,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Data (10 Nov 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...Waste % 1.0% Landfill Gas % 0.4% Biogas % 0.2% Solar PV % 0.1% Total % 36.5% The Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI) in their Energy in Ireland – 2019 report have estimated that the share of electricity from renewable energy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We need to be forensic in determining what went wrong and how the Government blew €500 million of the public's money on this hospital, €500 million more than what was indicated in the contract in February 2017. At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach on 5 February, I asked Deputy Donohoe to provide to the committee a detailed...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: International Agreements (15 Nov 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...to this scaling up as evidenced by our recently launched International Climate Finance Roadmap which charts the path towards more than doubling our international climate finance to provide €225 million by 2025. Ireland pledged €5 million to the Santiago Network at COP26 which is being established to provide technical assistance to support developing countries experiencing...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (15 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...and the committee for this opportunity to present details of this Supplementary Estimate for my Department. The Supplementary Estimate is required to provide the necessary funding of €926.606 million for the electricity costs emergency benefit scheme and €12 million for the business solar scheme, both in the energy transformation programme area. The Supplementary...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Priorities (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government and the Climate Action Plan set ambitious targets to retrofit 500,000 homes to a Building Energy Rating of B2 (or cost optimal equivalent), and to install 400,000 heat pumps to replace existing heating systems by 2030. The review of the National Development Plan (NDP) resulted in an unprecedented financial commitment to support achievement of the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (23 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...are funded from Councils' own resources, which are supplemented by State grants for regional and local roads. As outlined in the 2024 Regional and Local Roads programme which I released on the 15th of February this year, the Government is strongly committed to protecting the existing regional and local road network. This network is fundamental in connecting people and places across the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (19 Oct 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...the energy efficiency of our homes and reducing their carbon emissions is a critical climate priority and a major focus of the funding provided in the National Development Plan review.  €5 billion in carbon tax receipts will be invested by my Department to support the achievement of our national targets which are to retrofit 500,000 homes to a Building Energy...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (3 Mar 2022)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the planning, design and construction of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...that it is purely a social case. I would love to see us drive Bord na Mona towards the retrofit business. The economic cost to the State of Bord na Mona continuing to run peat-fired power stations to 2025, to give that as an example, must be some 5 million tonnes a year. If we stop that earlier, let us say in 2020, in that five years we are taking about saving 25 million tonnes. It is...

Written Answers — Fuel Poverty: Fuel Poverty (18 Jun 2009)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 32 and 58 together. The Government is committed to protecting vulnerable households from the impact of energy costs through a combination of institutional supports and investment in improving the energy efficiency of the housing stock. I am working closely with the Minister for Social and Family Affairs to deliver a fully cohesive approach across Government....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (28 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...been approved for funding through the Climate Action Fund are set out below. The first call for applications in 2018 received 97 applications and approved seven projects to move to validation stage, 5 of these projects are in delivery with another expected to move to delivery this year. Four of these projects have received funding amounting to €6.3 million. Six out of seven of the...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (22 Oct 2020)

Eamon Ryan: .... I am accompanied by Ms Patricia Cronin, assistant secretary with responsibility for governance and operations in the Department. The total provision for the Department in 2020 is €541.5 million, comprising €404.8 million capital, inclusive of €27.3 million in capital carryover from last year, and €136.7 million for current spending. Being before the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (22 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Programme for Government and the Climate Action Plan set ambitious targets to retrofit 500,000 homes to a Building Energy Rating of B2 (or cost optimal equivalent), and to install 400,000 heat pumps to replace existing heating systems by 2030. The review of the National Development Plan (NDP) resulted in an unprecedented financial commitment to support achievement of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (6 Dec 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...in Galway, Kildare and Tipperary), to address the longer-term economic transition of the region arising from the end of commercial peat extraction and peat-fired power generation. To date, €66 million of funding has been made available for projects that support the bioeconomy, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, regenerative tourism, and the implementation of local and...