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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...time. In the first of the carbon budgets, we are on track to meet our first target, but only just. We will not know the exact figures for 2022 until April. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, will come in the next week or two with the indicative figures. I do not have an indication yet as to what they are. I do not expect a significant reduction. The reason we are on track is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Gorse Burning (23 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The burning of agricultural land, containing heather and gorse, is an issue that concerns several Government Departments and Agencies. Section 40 of the Wildlife Act 1976, as amended; specifies that the burning of vegetation growing on uncultivated land cannot be undertaken during the nesting and breeding season for birds and wildlife, from 1 March to 31 August. In addition, burning...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Quality (22 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Gary Gannon: ...not just local authorities. Will the Minister of State make a commitment to produce a strategy for improving air quality in inner-city Dublin? I also call on the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to install monitoring stations in the worst-affected areas such as Phibsboro so that the rehabilitation of the local air quality can be monitored while attempts to solve this issue are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Ms Deirdre Ryan: There is still concern. We have been engaging with the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, FSAI, and Teagasc. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, still has concerns around the heavy metal content of digestate in particular. As such, we do not allow any raw or treated sewage sludge to be spread on Bord Bia quality-assured farms, but it is certainly something we will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (22 Mar 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 are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (22 Mar 2023)

Michael McGrath: The most recent projection of additional carbon tax revenues provided by my Department for the period 2021 to 2030 amounted to €9.2 billion, based on the Government’s commitment to increasing the amount that is charged per tonne of CO2 emissions from fuels to €100 by 2030. This is a key pillar underpinning the Government’s Climate Action Plan ambitions to halve...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (22 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...a permit for the use of explosives in the extractive industry, or for other purposes, is a matter for An Garda Síochána, which falls within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Justice, whose Department has issued the Guide to Explosives Legislation in Ireland. In relation to the extractive industry which commonly involves rock breaking, my Department issued statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Programme for Government (22 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: In 2019, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Funded Project, the Biomass Retrieval in Ireland using Active Remote (BRIAR) sensing project, conducted by Teagasc, estimated that Ireland has an estimated national hedgerow length of 689,000km. In line with the commitment in Programme for Government regarding a national hedgerow survey, my Department has mapped farmland hedgerows nationally...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Bruton: I can only imagine the complexity of 169 targets across scores of Departments and agencies. It is a truly formidable task to try to co-ordinate those in a coherent way. One of my suggestions, on which the witnesses could comment, concerns each newly-appointed Minister having to provide a strategy statement within six months. Under the 1997 Act, there is supposed to be a rotating evaluation...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (21 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...the site and enforcement of the environmental legislation as it applies to the owners of the site, is a matter for Galway County Council. I am aware that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) produced a report on the site in 2003 which stated that Galway Council is responsible for enforcing environmental legislation within its functional area, and the EPA has responsibility for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Farm Inspections (21 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...that there is a significant increase in the number of inspections, follow-up actions such as enforcement notices issued, prosecutions taken and penalties applied on non-compliant farms. In 2022 the EPA established and chair the National Agricultural Inspection Programme (NAIP) Working Group under the umbrella of the Network for Ireland's Environmental Compliance and Enforcement...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turf Cutting (21 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine does not have a role in the regulation of cutting of bogs. The Regulation on supply and peat extraction falls under planning regulations and is covered by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Cutting of Bogs above certain size thresholds may also require licensing by the EPA.

Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (9 Mar 2023) See 4 other results from this debate

Ossian Smyth: ...for an activity that is likely to have significant effects on the environment would be required to submit an environmental impact assessment report, EIAR, to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, for its consideration of the application and the agency would be required to carry out an EIA to feed into its licence determination. The process of producing an EIAR is lengthy and has a...

Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Mar 2023) See 6 other results from this debate

Lynn Boylan: ...to override section 15 of the 2015 Act, which relates to relevant bodies. There is already a great deal of flexibility in section 15, in that a relevant body - in this case, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA - need only have regard to the various plans and strategies and not be consistent with them. Professor John Sweeney described this get-out clause at the time as "weasel...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Policy (9 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Seán Canney: 20. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the influence the EPA report on targets to re-wetlands and the proposed reductions in herd numbers will have on policy in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9694/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The report referred to by the Deputy refers to an EPA-funded research project that models a number of ways in which Ireland could meet net-zero emissions by 2050 which is in 27 years’ time. It was carried out by leading soil, carbon and agri-ecologists under the auspices of the EPA Research Programme. It indicates the scale of the challenge in addressing the climate crisis. It is...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Mar 2023) See 9 other results from this debate

Jennifer Whitmore: The Minister is saying we cannot include the sunset clause because it is needed until 2027. This Bill relates to the EPA assessment. The EPA will do that assessment once. We were told very clearly that the assessment would have to be conducted within a couple of months. The EPA will have done its job. It will have used the provisions of the Act and done the assessment in an expedited...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Carrigy: ...High Court orders and the companies that have been shut down from producing peat and the need for us to import peat. I ask that the legislation be looked at again. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is bringing local businesspeople to court. A number have been before the District Court recently. I know a businessman from my own locality in Longford. There are two folio numbers...