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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Power Stations (23 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...the recommendations set out in the Commissioner's report, and is committed to preparing an implementation plan to address the remainder. A number of actions to implement the recommendations are already underway. This includes €20 million for a new energy efficiency retrofitting scheme in the Midlands, €5 million for peatland rehabilitation outside of the Bord na...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Allowance (21 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...homes have received free upgrades under the scheme, leaving the occupants better able to afford to heat their homes to an adequate level. The Warmer Homes Scheme budget allocation for 2020 is €52.8 million - a record level of funding for this scheme. The Climate Action Plan commits to reviewing ways to better target current energy poverty schemes, such as the Warmer Homes...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (21 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...homes have received free upgrades under the scheme, leaving the occupants better able to afford to heat their homes to an adequate level. The Warmer Homes Scheme budget allocation for 2020 is €52.8 million - a record level of funding for this scheme. Although the budget for the scheme has been significantly increased in recent times, the current very high level of demand does...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Fund (21 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Just Transition Fund is a key pillar of the Government's just transition plan for the Midlands. Up to €11 million will be available in 2020 for projects focusing on retraining workers, proposals to generate sustainable employment in green enterprise in the region, and supporting communities to transition to a low carbon economy. This is financed through an Exchequer allocation of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (21 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...of annual capital allocations available to the Department. Implementation of the Coonagh to Knockalisheen scheme is the responsibility of Limerick City and County Council. Grant funding of €5 million has been allocated to the Council for this project in 2020. My Department recently approved this project to proceed to tender for the main construction contract.

Seanad: National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Second Stage (17 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...post Covid-19 investments in infrastructure with resulting positive impacts for economic growth and job creation in communities across the State. The fund's first call led to supports of up to €77 million but is expected to leverage a total of €300 million of investment within the State. Projects being supported on the first call include the national roll-out of ESB...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Fund (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Just Transition Fund is a key pillar of the Government's just transition plan for the midlands. Up to €11 million will be available in 2020 for projects focusing on retraining workers, proposals to generate sustainable employment in green enterprise in the region, and supporting communities to transition to a low carbon economy. This is financed through an Exchequer allocation of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Commissioner (15 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...committed to preparing an implementation plan to address the remainder. A number of actions to implement the recommendations in the Commissioner's report are already underway. This includes €20 million for a new energy efficiency retrofitting scheme in the Midlands, €5 million for peatland rehabilitation outside of the Bord na Móna estate, and €6 million for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (14 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...an operational support for biomass boilers and anaerobic digestion heating systems. Eligible renewable energy technologies are supported through a multi-annual payment, for a period of up to 15 years, on the basis of prescribed tariffs. The National Development Plan sets out an allocation of €300 million for the roll-out of the scheme for the period up to 2027. The scheme has a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Development Projects (14 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: As the Deputy may be aware, in June 2019, the Government gave approval, in principle, to contributing €5 million in Exchequer funding towards a €12 million runway extension project at Waterford Airport. The model of funding put forward by Waterford Airport in respect of this project was new - private and local authority interests have committed to investing the balance of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Fund (7 Jul 2020)

Eamon Ryan: The Just Transition Fund is a key pillar of the Government's just transition plan for the midlands. Up to €11 million will be available in 2020 for projects focusing on retraining workers and proposals to generate sustainable employment in green enterprise in the region, and supporting communities to transition to a low carbon economy. This is financed through an Exchequer allocation...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (30 Jun 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...company put in place a Strategic Plan for the medium-long term future of the company. The Plan covers the period 2017 – 2021. In order to implement the Plan, the cost of which was estimated to be in the region of €150m, the Minister for Finance provided a loan of €30m to the company in December 2017 to support the renewal of the post office network (€15m) and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...see the presentation made about that? An academic from UCD, Dr. Florence Renou-Wilson made, to my mind, a brilliant, really significant submission showing that peatland emissions account for 11 million tonnes, which is the equivalent of our entire energy emissions. I do not know if anyone saw the RTÉ programme, "Hot Air", last night. I thought it was really good. When they were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I agree. I am speaking from memory when I say that extraction accounts for a little under half, or 5 million, of those 11 million tonnes. The remainder is from the drained bogs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...that statement that her best scientific advice and her experience on the international panel is that we should immediately cease all extraction of peat. That would be one way to immediately save 5 million tonnes per annum.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Again, Dr. Renou-Wilson has international science on this. If were able to save 5 million of the remaining 6 million tonnes, as a certain amount is very difficult, that would be a total of 10 million tonnes a year. I assume that the price of carbon will be approximately €80 per tonne by 2030. That is what we will have as a carbon price in Ireland. Who knows what the international...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: BusConnects is not even in planning; it is in consultation. Believe me, I have been to 15 or 20 consultation meetings. Those involved are the first to admit it is not even near going to planning. Where is the Navan rail corridor? It is gone. Where is the metro? It is not in planning. Perhaps in a few years' time we might think about starting to build something. As I have said, on the...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...process in recent years by stating it would spend €72 billion, only to announce a year later that it had spent €82 billion. That €10 billion fillip came from an unexpected rise of €5 billion in corporation tax receipts and the public purse saving €5 billion owing to a cut in interest rates. It was mostly frittered away in cost overruns that had never...

Offshore Islands: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...class ferry to the island, which is of huge benefit. On the other hand, a runway was built on the western side of the island. I cannot remember how much it cost - it must have been the guts of €5 million to €10 million - but one can only think of what could have been done with that money. There was a matching runway in Cleggan, but both are now sitting idle. Submissions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...process. I do not know whether Deputy Murphy remembers it. Those presenting told us that, whatever we did, we should build the metro and the DART interconnector first, rather than widening the M50 or investing in roads. They stated that was what we must do. The committee decided that it would do so. I kept telling my wife that Dublin was about to change and it was going to be a...