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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (16 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department has made the Environmental Considerations map layers relevant to afforestation applications available to registered foresters via DAFM’s iNET mapping system. These maps help registered foresters to identify opportunities for further forest planting in Ireland, along with indicating areas where new forest planting may be inappropriate, for a variety of reasons. The...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...development which comprises or is for the purposes of an activity for which an integrated pollution control licence, an abstraction licence or a waste licence is required, the commission may request the EPA to make submissions on the proposed development. Similarly, the commission should be empowered to request a submission from the EPA in respect of an application for which an industrial...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fadhb Thithíochta na Gaeltachta: BÁNÚ (10 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...oscailte suas. Mar shampla, tá riail ag Comhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe agus cuireann sé i bhfeidhm go láidir i gConamara é; caithfidh leath-acra a bheith agat le teach a dhéanamh. Ní theastaíonn leath-acra le teach a dhéanamh. Tá sé ag rá gurb é sin atá leagtha síos ag an EPA. Níl mé cinnte an é an EPA...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Food Waste (9 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Francis Noel Duffy: 123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current annual budget allocation to the stop food waste section of the EPA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14853/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (9 Apr 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...the necessary statutory approvals. Noise mitigation measures for new National Roads projects are funded through the overall allocation for the road project in question. As such, the need for a separate fund does not arise. With regard to existing National Roads, the amended European Communities (Environmental Noise Regulations) 2018 (S.I. No. 549) deal with the requirements to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (9 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: 270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline, in light of the EPA Research Report 454, titled "Farm-Carbon: Hedgerows and Non-forest Woodland (Hedgerow Carbon Project)”, the plans he has to direct Transport Infrastructure Ireland and local road authorities to expand the planting of hedges on motorway medians and on wide areas on the boundaries of our...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Apr 2024)

Michael McGrath: In July 2023 my Department published a paper examining the Potential Fiscal Impacts of the Transition to a Lower Carbon Economy in Ireland. The paper examined the potential fiscal impacts of current domestic climate action policies including commitments in the Climate Action Plan 2023 and the Programme for Government and is available online :...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (9 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department does not compile the information requested. The Water Services Act 2007 (as amended) requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to produce a national inspection plan for domestic waste water treatment systems, also known as septic tanks. The EPA report on the implementation of the plan and publishes information on inspections and enforcement on an annual basis. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (9 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: This is an operational matter and my Department cannot interfere in regulatory processes. Since 1 January 2014, Uisce Éireann has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels and my Department has no function in relation to this matter, under section 7 of the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013. The EPA is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Reviews (9 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...) committed to a national land use review. This commitment is being delivered in a two-phase approach. The first phase of the Land-use Review was led by Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and focused on evidence gathering. This was completed in March 2023 and the final report consists of 10 documents and 19 recommendations. The second phase follows on from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024) See 20 other results from this debate

Mr. Fintan Towey: I thank the committee for inviting the Department to discuss compliance with the nitrates directive. The Department is responsible for the nitrates action programmes, NAPs, and the good agricultural practice, GAP, regulations as well as the national river basin management plan. We work in close collaboration with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, DAFM,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Local Authorities (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Ivana Bacik: ...Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a noise abatement order under Section 108 of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 is granted; what responsibility does the EPA have to enforce it; and what actions it can take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11672/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (20 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...reduction target for 2030. The baseline and mitigation targets for Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions are informed by the national reporting of greenhouse gas emissions carried out by the EPA. This national reporting follows principles and methodologies established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including with regard to the global warming...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (20 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...are located in either a Prioritised Area for Action or a High Status Objective Catchment Area, as identified in the River Basin Management Plan 2018-2021. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has statutory responsibility, under the Water Services Act 2007, for the preparation of the National Inspection Plan for DWWTS. Inspections are allocated across the country with the greatest...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The figures are provisional. It requires the EPA to the do the final greenhouse gas inventories.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Paul McAuliffe: ...concerned when I saw media coverage on the removal of soil from Dublin Airport. Obviously, that was a decision made by the DAA in consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and Fingal County Council. The response from the Department outlines that this is an operational matter for the DAA but it does not address the concern and remit of this committee around the potential...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: National air quality monitoring stations are operated, maintained, and monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme (AAMP). My Department has provided funding for a significant upgrade to the network in recent years, and the number of monitoring stations has increased from 29 in 2017 to 116 today. At present there are no plans...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The most recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) inventory figures show that Ireland's emissions fell by 1.9% between 2021 and 2022. While the EPA will not publish its inventory figures for 2023 until later this year, emissions are expected to have fallen once again. These emissions reductions demonstrate Ireland's ability to reverse emissions growth and to build momentum towards meeting...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...Indications from Local Authorities to date are that there has been a high level of compliance. However, some small issues of illegal trading and non compliant fuel still remain. Officials from my Department are working with the Local Authorities on a number of enforcement projects to tackle this. It is just over a year since the new regulations came into effect and it was anticipated...