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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023) See 9 other results from this debate

...workers must be a priority for the sector, in conjunction with a continuous supply of permits from the general employment scheme. I will now deal with the issue of food waste. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Ireland is the fifth highest in Europe for food waste and is approximately 15% ahead of the EU average. It is estimated that food waste accounts for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (18 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Plan 2023 identified increased climate literacy in the public sector as a key driver of public sector leadership. This question relates to Climate Action Plan 2023, action number PS/23/9/B**. My Department has engaged with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the delivery of this action. A survey is currently being designed and will be rolled out before the end of the year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2023)

...these international environmental examples. I am not aware of any polling in Ireland on support for environmental rights, other than the assembly. However, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, has done interesting polling on climate change. In that context, over 85% of the public are very concerned about climate change. As the committee will be aware, there is a growing...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (11 Oct 2023)

Mary Butler: ...speech on farms having a balance sheet of carbon sequestration. I have learned a lot in the past four minutes. At the outset, it is the responsibility of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to report emissions and removals associated with land use activities on an annual basis to the EU and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC. However, the Department...

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Oct 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...No. 129 replicates section 26(2) to avoid situations where another licensing authority would be required to obtain a licence under the Bill, for example, where the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, which is the licensing authority for dumping at sea, would be required to obtain a licence under the Bill if that dumping was in the vicinity of a historic wreck. Paragraph (3)(b) of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023) See 5 other results from this debate

...that it is not getting the same attention, here or at the EU level, as other aspects of climate change action at the agriculture and food level. He asked where the food waste is occurring. The EPA has done some significant research on this and has found that households are the biggest wasters of food. They are followed by the manufacturing and processing sectors, which account for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Impact Assessments (11 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The national air quality monitoring stations are operated, maintained, and monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme. All stations collect air quality data for a range of pollutants to provide information to the public, and for assessment against European legal limit values and World Health Organisation guideline values. The EPA...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...about agriculture. Thanks to the Green Party, the Government's main aim in agriculture is to demonise and attack farmers day in, day out. It will not look at the pollution caused by public authorities and industry, but it will get the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to do a report that is not honest, straightforward or fair. The EPA will not look at its own issue at all. The...

Seanad: Budget 2024 (Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform): Statements (10 Oct 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...time, that those who fell through the cracks last time are reached. A lot of work has been done in that regard with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities and the retail electricity section of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Although the scheme was fair already, I am happy that it is fairer, that people who were wrongly excluded will be included and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) owns no vacant or derelict properties or sites.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (10 Oct 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...level, including investment in waste water treatment plants and returning treated waste water safely to the environment in an efficient and sustainable manner. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the key statutory body for investigating complaints of pollution and for the enforcement, both directly and through oversight of Uisce Éireann and local authorities, of environmental...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (5 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I also addressed this issue in a Topical Issue debate just last week, when I talked about the EPA report on air pollution and the impact that is having on public health, including excess mortality in our communities. Up to 1,400 people a year die as a result of air pollution. Although it is a very stark figure, it does not take account of the number of people who suffer adverse health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Jackie Cahill: ...like to see given the issues we have with the nitrates derogation. However, in reality that is not true and afforestation has the opposite impact. For example, Leitrim is in the red area on the EPA map. Leitrim has the highest level of afforestation in the country and probably the lowest stocking rate, and it is in the EPA red zone. I do not think that afforestation will solve our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Richard Bruton: ...-level strategies with some good examples of individual initiatives but the piece in between, the concrete tools that would change behaviour, are too weak. I have not had the chance to read the Department's work on green procurement but the EPA reported last year that only 17% of procurement contracts have green criteria. The Department should be saying this will increase to 50% and that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (3 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...and Kimmage. For years local people, environmental activists and the Save the Poddle campaign have reported the pollution to South Dublin County Council and to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, but to no avail. The most recent incident was last Friday when an oily substance that looked like bleach turned the river white in Tymon Park and in Bancroft Park. The council knows that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (3 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...types. The National Land Cover Map was produced by the National Mapping Division of Tailte Éireann (formerly Ordnance Survey of Ireland) in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The aim of a land cover map is to map what is physically present on the Earth’s surface, for example forests, grasslands, and artificial areas. This Land Cover Map was produced...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ...has a greater impact on water quality and the animals and plant life in the rivers than effluent from farmers, despite the bashing of farmers all the time. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is not honest on this and it must be challenged. It had a report saying there was 32 plants in the 26 Counties discharging sewage. There are 30 in Tipperary alone and it is not checking them....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Sep 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...provides us with excellent opportunities to encourage and incentivise innovation, while also developing new job opportunities in the green economy. The latest Environment Protection Agency, EPA, reports show that in 2022 Ireland's emissions fell by 1.9% compared to 2021. This is to be welcomed. During the same period Ireland's economy performed strongly, with employment growing 2.7%...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Quality (28 Sep 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Brian Leddin: ...being done in the area of smoky fuels by this Government. We really are turning a corner there but we are not looking closely enough at the air quality issue due to traffic. The analysis in the EPA report simply is not there and it needs to be there to instill confidence in the population that this is being monitored properly. That does not come from the EPA report with respect to...