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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 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...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Financial Resolutions (25 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...in the manner and to the extent specified in the Act giving effect to this Resolution and, for that purpose, that the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 be further amended, by the insertion of Chapter 5 of Part 33, in the manner and to the extent specified in the Act giving effect to this Resolution. 5. THAT the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39 of 1997) be amended in respect of the taxation...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...advice. We are in a very unusual time where we have had a very long period since the financial crash of very low interest rates and now a sudden switch. Bond yields in the United States are up over 5% while in Ireland they are up 3.2%. The economic future, even next year, that we have to plan for, is very uncertain. We have listened intently to the Fiscal Advisory Council, FAC. We...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I move Financial Resolution No. 1: (1)THAT for the purposes of the tax charged by virtue of section 95 of the Finance Act 1999 (No. 2 of 1999), that Act be amended, with effect as on and from 11 October 2023, by the substitution of the following for Schedule 2 to that Act: “SCHEDULE 2 Rates ofMineralOilTax Light Oil: Rates per 1,000 litres Heavy Oil:...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (5 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...significant progress in relation to both in recent years. At a policy level, last year I published Sustainable Mobility Policy which has two particularly relevant high-level goals, namely – Goal 5: Take a whole of journey approach to mobility, promoting inclusive access for all; and Goal 6: Design infrastructure according to Universal Design Principles and the Hierarchy of Road...

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

Eamon Ryan: The Community Climate Action Programme (CCAP) will see more than €61.5 million from the Climate Action Fund (CAF) invested over two phases in supporting communities across the country to run direct climate action projects and initiatives under strand 1/1a, as well as capacity building under strand 2. This funding has already been approved. Under the first phase of Strand 1 of the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (29 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As the Deputy may be aware, my department is responsible for the implementation of 54 specific commitments in the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future. Significant progress has been made in all policy areas of my department since 27 June 2020 and I believe that we are well on track to deliver on the Programme for Government commitments in all areas. I would highlight the following key...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry (22 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...vehicles by bridging some of the price difference between conventional heavy-duty vehicles and alternatively fuelled vehicles, which offer environmental benefits. The Scheme is once again funded in 2023, with €5 million being made available. In addition, Ireland has the Low Emission Vehicle Toll Incentive or ‘LEVTI’ Scheme, which offers toll discounts for alternatively...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (13 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...previous investment in Active Travel was relatively small, a comprehensive programme of infrastructure development and behavioural change initiatives has been put in place since 2020, with €290 million allocated to the NTA's Active Travel Infrastructure Programme in 2023 alone and additional funding provided for training and behavioural change programmes such as CycleRight, Green...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Bodies (30 May 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...by the Government of Ireland, through the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications and the Department of Transport. In 2023 the Agency’s total budget allocation is just under €600 million. SEAI is key to informing, supporting, implementing, and delivering Government energy policy and the Climate Action Plan. The programmes administered by SEAI have a major...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Sectoral Emissions Ceiling: Minister for Transport (17 May 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...leads across the climate mitigation and adaptation efforts in the Department of Transport. The engagement is timely. We are now approaching both the midway point of our first carbon budget to 2025, the first full year under the sectoral emissions ceilings agreed by the Government last July and the first year of implementation under our national sustainable mobility policy, which was...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (2 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...to funding for regional and local roads during the post 2008 recession resulted in the build-up of a substantial backlog of works across the country.  The estimated cost of the backlog is in excess of €5 billion. Because of the pressures on the regional and local road network, approximately 90% of available Exchequer grant assistance to local authorities for regional and local...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (21 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...funding for regional and local roads during the post 2008 recession resulted in the build-up of a substantial backlog of works across the country. The estimated cost of the backlog is in excess of €5 billion. Because of the pressures on the regional and local road network, approximately 90% of available Exchequer grant assistance to local authorities for regional and local roads is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...emissions last year, scientists came back to us and said that rather than being a sink, forestry will turn into a source and land use rather than it being, as the Deputy said, approximately 4.8 million tonnes, it is going to reach the equivalent of 11 million tonnes because a lot of the forestry that was planted in the 1980s and 1990s in the uplands will be clear felled. The forestry was...

Seanad: Wind Energy: Statements (25 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...know that we have gone with a three-phase approach. In the first phase, where we are dealing with a relevant project that has already been in the planning system, in many cases for up to ten or 15 years, we will progress it. There is one on the west coast, Sceirde Rocks off Connemara, and six in the Irish Sea. We are in the middle of that process. The auction system process is up and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (19 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...funding for regional and local roads during the post 2008 recession resulted in the build-up of a substantial backlog of works across the country. The estimated cost of the backlog is in excess of €5 billion. Because of the pressures on the regional and local road network, approximately 90% of available Exchequer grant assistance to local authorities for regional and local roads is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (19 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...funding for regional and local roads during the post 2008 recession resulted in the build-up of a substantial backlog of works across the country. The estimated cost of the backlog is in excess of €5 billion. Because of the pressures on the regional and local road network, approximately 90% of available Exchequer grant assistance to local authorities for regional and local roads is...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...avoid the worst impacts of climate change that we already know is inevitable because of the change that is happening in our atmosphere. For clarity, we have known the science of this for some 35 years or more. Going back to that period in the late 1980s, the concentration of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gases in the atmosphere was some 350 parts-per million, ppm. It took a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (18 Jan 2023)

Eamon Ryan: A breakdown of the projected €287 million capital underspend in my Department, as outlined in the Fiscal Monitor is set out in the table below. Subhead 2022 Allocation€000 2022 ProjectedOutturn€000 2022 ProjectedVariance€000 Admin Capital 1,477 734 -743 A.3 - Environmental...