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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (15 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: The national Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme is operated, maintained, and monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). My Department has provided funding for a significant upgrade to the network in recent years, and as a consequence the number of monitoring stations has increased from 29 in 2017 to 113 today. The expansion will be complete when the remaining stations are...

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

Eamon Ryan: The EPA’s latest GHG emissions projections highlight the challenge Ireland faces in meeting its highly ambitious climate objectives and legally-binding emissions targets. While the EPA’s projections show that emissions are expected to decrease in almost all sectors over the next two decades, it is clear that we still have considerable work to do. The recent EPA report has...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Jun 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

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...

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

Eamon Ryan: The EPA’s latest GHG emissions projections highlight the challenge Ireland faces in meeting its highly ambitious climate objectives and legally-binding emissions targets. While the EPA’s projections do show that emissions are expected to decrease in almost all sectors over the next two decades, it is clear that we still have considerable work to do. The EPA report has...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Jun 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Paul Murphy: 120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can clarify if recent EPA projections of GHG emissions for the next two carbon budget adequately account for the projected overshoot in emission in the budget to 2025; if the subsequent budget for 25-30 reflects a reduced budget as a result of the first budget overshoot; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Aindrias Moynihan: The recent EPA report on water quality outlined how ground waters continued to be under pressure from human activities. The EPA states there was no significant change in the biological quality of rivers and lakes in 2022, with some deterioration being offset by improvements in others. The role of those bodies has been long established. Take Irish Water’s role in water pollution....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (14 Jun 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Lynn Boylan: ...fruit. Current climate policies are not paying sufficient attention to who emits what, rich or poor. It is all based on the lowest cost approach. The recent report of the Environmental Protection Authority, EPA, exemplified that again. We need the EPA and the Central Statistics Office, CSO, to produce the data so that we can develop policy that will target the emissions of the wealthy...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Lynn Boylan: The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, released a report today that found there has been no significant improvement in the biological quality of our rivers or lakes in 2022. Ireland relies heavily on its clean and green image, both for its food production and for its tourism industry. Increasingly, however, the reality is the very opposite and all of our biological and environmental...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Security, Recruitment and Training at Dublin Airport: Discussion (14 Jun 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Duncan Smith: Is it the DAA or the EPA that does that, or is it both?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (14 Jun 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Aindrias Moynihan: 55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will comment on the report by the EPA which states that Ireland is on course to miss its climate targets; what actions can be taken now to correct this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28858/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023) See 4 other results from this debate

...development projects like our own water supply, the greater Dublin drainage or ESB's network improvement should get priority in the various consenting bodies such as An Bord Pleanála and the EPA. They should be prioritised because if we do not have those we will get the housing developed and all those things developed beside it. That is our ask in that sense. Ms Harris might...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...activities. Several Irish assessment studies on the issue have been conducted in recent years - SEAI, 2008: "Assessment of the Potential for Geological Storage of CO2for the Island of Ireland", EPA, 2010: "An Assessment of the Potential for Geological Storage of CO2in the Vicinity of Moneypoint, Co. Clare" and more recently the GSI 2014: “Irish Sea Carbon Capture and Storage...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (13 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...would be a multiple of that number, depending on the pricing for reusable bottles, which varies depending on brand, material and size. Studies carried out by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on public behaviours and attitudes towards plastics show that 81% of Irish people already own a reusable water bottle so government investment to promote alternatives to single use plastics...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...is a priority action for Government under the Climate Action Plan 2023. Behavioural change is one of the four pillars of the National Dialogue on Climate Action (NDCA). Under the NDCA my Department has: 1) supported the EPA Climate Change in the Irish Mind Survey, which is a benchmark of attitudes and behaviours around climate change in Ireland; 2) delivered the Climate Conversations...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (13 Jun 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...protocols. The MODOS Training Programme, which is a joint initiative of Dublin City Council and the Eastern-Midlands Regional Waste Management Planning Office, is funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This training programme is promoted by LEO Dublin City on behalf of Dublin City Council’s Economic Development Unit and is an example of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (13 Jun 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...with other species. Grants for site clearance and replanting to cover the costs associated with these operations were provided and premiums continued to be paid where the contracts were still in premium. My Department has expended over €9 million to date on both schemes, covering almost 6,500 hectares of grant aided ash to date. There are 21 applicants availing of the scheme in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Water Pollution (1 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, I have no function or responsibility in respect of this matter. The EPA is an independent public body established under the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 and is entirely independent in the exercise of its functions.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Bodies (1 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: There are 14 bodies under the aegis of my Department, the details of which are set out in the table below, along with the contact details for Members of the Oireachtas for each of the relevant bodies. Name of Body Contact details for Members of the Oireachtas An Post Angus.Laverty@anpost.ie Bord na Mona oireachtas@bnm.ie...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ...has been no consultation or engagement. We have desperate experiences of Coillte and the neglect of its properties. We have the desperate experience of Bord na Móna and all State bodies. The EPA has not challenged county councils, including Dublin City Council, for pumping sewage into rivers, yet the Government want to demonise and blackguard farmers, the people who put food on our...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (30 May 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...xc9;ireann, which has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services, planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local level. In turn, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, as an environmental regulator, is responsible for setting quality standards and enforcing compliance with EU directives and national regulations for the provision of drinking water. ...