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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radon Gas Levels (27 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: .... The Government has established a National Radon Control Strategy (NRCS), which is now in its second phase covering the period 2019 – 2024. Implementation of the strategy is overseen by an interdepartmental and agency NRCS Group chaired by my Department. The NRCS Group met earlier this month. Individual Departments, including the Department of Housing, Local Government and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Radon Gas Levels (27 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: .... The Government has established a National Radon Control Strategy (NRCS), which is now in its second phase covering the period 2019-2024. Implementation of the strategy is overseen by an interdepartmental and agency NRCS Group chaired by the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications. My Department is represented on this group by a HSE Public Health consultant. Progress...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: .... They are attacking, cannibalising and turning on our own people. Teagasc told farmers a couple of years ago to get more cows and now it is demonising them, bringing out reports and getting the EPA to compile reports. The EPA should be out policing villages and examining the raw sewage in the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's constituency, my constituency and everyone else's constituency that is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Wastewater Treatment (26 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Róisín Garvey: ...We have a lot to do and everybody wants to fix this, which is acceptable. However, what is not acceptable is that years ago, we were told Lahinch and Ennistymon would get a new plant by 2029. The EPA then issued a damning report stating that the pump station required a complete upgrade and the wastewater treatment plant resulted in significant overflows including more sewage into the...

Seanad: Public Water Connection Charges: Motion (26 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Róisín Garvey: ...raw materials and energy. It also leads to single-use plastic waste which we can see every day. It also costs money. In fact, bottled water can cost more per litre than petrol or diesel. According to a recent Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, survey, 81% of the population own a reusable water bottle but, also, 80% of people do not know where they can refill it in a public place....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...economy is an essential part of a sustainable, carbon-neutral and resource-efficient economy. The first whole-of-government circular economy strategy was published in December 2021 by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a national policy framework for Ireland’s transition to a circular economy. Alongside this, the Department is playing its part...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...’s current Nitrates Derogation and since the European Commission published its Implementing Decision granting Ireland's Nitrates Derogation covering the period 2022-2025, officials from my Department and officials from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage have actively engaged on several occasions with the European Commission on nitrates and water quality issues....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...characteristics of the land, consideration of emissions to air and water, carbon sequestration and climate adaption challenges. Phase One was an evidential review which was led by the EPA and guided by a cross-governmental technical steering group, which included my Department. Phase one provides an evidence base to determine an appropriate land use indicator set for Ireland, as...

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...about eviction and would take pressure off people looking for somewhere affordable to live. Putting existing buildings back into use is also good for helping us to meet our climate change targets. The most sustainable building is an existing building. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, construction and demolition created 8.2 million tonnes of waste in Ireland in 2020....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023) See 9 other results from this debate

Michael Collins: ...to the local council? Can it be confirmed or denied if the IFFPG gave a contract to a company some years ago that has a conviction following a prosecution by the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA? What happened with the contractor's yard in Killorglin? Why was it closed? Who and what gives the IFFPG the authority to demand exclusive rights to the end-market recyclers? Since the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (19 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...from waste water treatment plants can lead to organic and nutrient enrichment with consequent impacts on dissolved oxygen levels and biological communities Further Details are available from the EPA website: www.epa.ie/our-services/monitoring--assessment/assessment/ir elands-environment/water/ Harvest of rivers below their conservation limit is not permitted as this would increase...

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

Eamon Ryan: My Department does not compile or maintain statistics in relation to the levels of enforcement actions by Local Authorities under the Solid Fuels Regulations. Local Authorities report this information as part of their enforcement activities under environmental legislation to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on an annual basis. Details of Local Authority environmental enforcement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Quarrying Sector (18 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ..., as appropriate, is required to have regard to the particular local circumstances of the proposed development and may attach appropriate conditions to the permission on a case by case basis. My Department issued statutory Guidelines to Planning Authorities on Quarrying and Ancillary Activities in April 2004, to which planning authorities and the Board must have regard when...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (18 Apr 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is the lead authority responsible for the interim review of Ireland's 5th Nitrates Action Programme (NAP) and the associated Regulations. My Department is working closely with them in this regard. As part of the European Commission’s Implementing Decision granting Ireland its current Nitrates Derogation, additional...

Seanad: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Statements (29 Mar 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...arson before starting. The Senator referred to the problems for fishing tourism. Let us be fair; the reason fishing tourism is almost gone is due to water quality, which has deteriorated. The EPA annual report states that only slightly more than half of surface waters - rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal waters - are in satisfactory condition, meaning they are achieving good or high...

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ...schemes are so convoluted, and are deliberately designed as such, no one can draw them down. I say that hand on my heart. Many other schemes are designed the same way. They are designed by Departments which seem to want to make things more difficult for people. There is the Government’s green dream here. Many aspects of it are just big fear. It is frightening people. I am...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...far from here, where we practised the systems and procedures outlined in the national plan for nuclear and radiological emergency exposures, to ensure that the Government and State agencies are prepared to manage the response effectively to a range of potential scenarios. The national plan details Ireland's planning and preparedness for a national response to a major nuclear emergency....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023) See 10 other results from this debate

...surrounding landscape will, ultimately, show up in the water quality, and that is what we are seeing in an Irish context. We are in the midst of an ever-worsening water quality crisis, with the EPA increasingly highlighting the deteriorating situation. Half of our rivers and lakes are considered polluted and the EPA has highlighted the alarming declines in our estuaries, two thirds of...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (23 Mar 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...grant for farming families under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 3. Senator Lynn Boylan - The need for the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to amend the EPA waste licensing system to allow for formalised and structured "scavenging" to enable greater re-use of waste and the development of the circular economy. Senator Barry Ward - The need for the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (23 Mar 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Lynn Boylan: ...the same connotations, and it is an activity we should encourage. One-off organisations such as the Ballymun Rediscovery Centre show we can give a new lease of life to furniture, clothes and bicycles. The EPA-licensed site report on waste enforcement cites scavenging permitted on site as one area of non-compliance with the licence. In an era when we are more urgently trying to make our...