Results 1-20 of 59 for epa speaker:Catherine Connolly

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ..., which the body in charge, and the local authorities. We have plans and conditions have been set as part of a licence which are not being complied with. These are not my words. This is what the EPA has outlined in its open compliance investigation. Either Uisce Éireann does not know what it is doing, which is not my way, it does not have enough staff or the Government is not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...make a pitch for Galway city and want I want to do here is to highlight the actions of Uisce Éireann. I do not wish to demonise Uisce Éireann but I believe it should have stayed with the local authorities. The local authorities submitted a comprehensive plan in 2012 and 2013, which was not approved by the Department because of the future birth of Uisce Éireann. What are...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Catherine Connolly: It is nearly five years since we declared a climate and biodiversity emergency. I sat on a council that had a draft biodiversity plan for donkey's years and no biodiversity officer. The Department was starved of funds and leadership from governments. I have said this on the record. As well as this, there is an emergency brake in the scheme in addition to it being voluntary. It is very...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Functions (21 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of his Department’s role in the national agricultural inspection programme; the details of any engagement between his Department, local authorities and the County and City Management Association in 2022, 2023 and 2024 with regard to this programme; the details of any engagement between his Department and...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...to speak to this important Bill. I thank the commission, led by Ms Justice Marie Baker, for its work. It was set up in February and its report was published in August. I thank also the Department for its work on the Bill. I thank the Minister for the written copy of his detailed contribution. He stated, somewhat jokingly, that he hopes he will never again have to read through an...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Na Seirbhísí Uisce agus Séarachais a chuireann Uisce Éireann ar fáil i gceantair Ghaeltachta: Plé. (21 Jun 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...-de-sac maidir leis na pleananna atá ann. Ceapaim go bhfuil sé thar am é sin a admháil agus chun pleananna réasúnta a chur ar an talamh ó thaobh céard atá i gceist maidir leis An gCeathrú Rua. Táim ag smaoineamh ar Árainn freisin. Níl a fhios agam cé mhéad ríomhphoist, idir an gcomhairle contae i nGaillimh,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been brought to the recently published EPA report “Ireland’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections 2022-2040: June 2023”, which outlined that Ireland is not on track to meet the 51% emissions reduction target by 2030; his response to the EPA report; what engagement he or his...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...of energy by data centres and others. No regulations are laid down for them. We then have reports in the newspapers of Microsoft, Amazon and Google seeking to expedite applications to the EPA for industrial emissions licences. We are told how worried they are because they have submitted licence applications and because the EPA is apparently very tardy. Not a single Government...

Transport in Galway and Other Areas: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...just one in a series of reports issued nationally and internationally of which the Minister is very well aware. We have been told repeatedly, by bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, in Ireland and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, that we will not meet our emissions targets with current policies. The OECD report shines a spotlight on the policies...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...to the Committee on Public Accounts and audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. In terms of background to this discussion, the report on urban wastewater treatment was published by the EPA on 20 October. It tells us that 7.5 million litres of sewage is flowing into Ireland's seas and rivers every day, enough to fill three Olympic-sized swimming pools. I am not here to give...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...centre in Laois. Deputy Gino Kenny - to discuss issues in relation to the diagnosis of endometriosis. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan - to discuss fuel subsidy for the fishing sector with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Deputy Jackie Cahill - to discuss the public use of the swimming pool in the Garda Síochána College, Templemore. Deputy Jennifer Murnane...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...- I am not sure - but the words the Minister used were "the world is burning". Ireland's emissions continue to rise. There was a 4.7% rise in 2021 compared with 2020. That is according to the EPA, not the radical Deputies on this side of the Dáil coming up with figures out of the sky. Transport emissions accounted for 17.7% of total national greenhouse gas emissions, and road...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (21 Sep 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...of the city and council in Galway to discuss what was happening and the local councillors would be getting answers. That part is now missing. In addition, what is missing is any oversight by a Department that has allowed this answer to be issued. I understand the difficulties of the Minister of State in reading this out. Since August, there has been a problem on Inishbofin....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (21 Sep 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...heard it. However, I need to emphasise what has happened here. The Inis Oírr notice was lifted just yesterday. It is very difficult to understand what happened regarding Inisbofin. I ask the Minister of State to clarify the sequence of events and dates. When did Uisce Éireann become aware that there was problem? What was the nature of that problem and why could the...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...understand when such analyses are carried out why one of the options is to do nothing. The options should be looked at. One of the options is always no intervention, as if that is an option. The two other options in this analysis are, No. 2, to separate Irish Water from Ervia with additional regulatory requirements and, No. 3, to separate them with no additional regulatory requirements....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Ba mhaith liom filleadh ar an ábhar athrú aeráide, go háirid i gcomhthéacs na tuarascála damanta a d’fhoilsigh an áisíneacht EPA inniu agus an teachtaireacht láidir nach bhfuilimid chun ár spriocanna a chomhlíonadh. An teachtaireacht ba láidre ón tuarascáil sin ná go bhfuil sé thar am beart a dhéanamh...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...plan for countering the rising sea levels. I say that in the context of several reports. I refer to the current status report for Ireland 2020, in which the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and the Marine Institute point out that sea level has risen by approximately 2 mm to 3 mm per year since the early 1990s. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, working group notes...

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...be a wonderful legacy if we had a constitutional amendment stating we own the water. It belongs to all of us, and it is as essential as air and we cannot live without it. We have all quoted the EPA. I am ashamed that we are still quoting the EPA. In my town, raw sewage is released into our waters every day from 35 towns and villages, including Spiddal, Carrowroe, Roundstone, etc.....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...in tackling climate change. It has taken the visual imagery, however, of children protesting on our streets and streets throughout the world to force the Dáil to take action, along with the numerous reports, both national and international, from UN bodies, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and the Climate Advisory Council. These all clearly show that our trajectory of...

Report of Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...it, is that Ireland is currently the third highest carbon emitter in the EU. The Climate Change Advisory Council produced its first report in November 2016 and pointed out we are failing to meet our targets. The EPA has spoken out and highlighted that we are failing to meet our targets. Earlier today, we debated the national broadband plan and we noted for the first time that the...