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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Forestry Sector (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...largest land-based climate change mitigation measure available to Ireland, yet the Government's policies are reaching a disastrous one quarter of the targets. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, has already found that the climate action plan will be entirely insufficient. Now that the sectoral targets are being negotiated, with demands for a 22% cut in agricultural emissions,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Food Waste (14 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimate that Ireland generated approximately 1.1 million tonnes of food waste in 2019 (latest year for which EPA published data is available). The EPA estimate that 528,000 tonnes of Irish waste was accepted for treatment at composting and anaerobic digestion facilities. Municipal biowaste (kitchen and canteen food waste, garden and park green waste,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (14 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The national Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme is operated, maintained and monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, my Department has provided funding for a significant upgrade to the network in recent years and, as a result, the number of monitoring stations has increased from 29 in 2017 to 102 today. All stations collect air quality data for a range of...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (13 Jul 2022) See 3 other results from this debate

Ossian Smyth: I thank the Deputies. I have been in Monaghan on a number of occasions in the past year. I met Deputy Carthy's brother in Carrickmacross. I asked my Department to engage directly with Shabra Plastics some time ago. They have been engaging and that will continue. In general, our facilities infrastructure for recycling plastics in Ireland is not well developed. One of the consequences of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2022)

Lisa Chambers: ...in the House take a different view on the matter. Senator Moynihan requested a debate on An Bord Pleanála and the report that is due. We will look for that debate. Senator Cummins spoke about EPA provisions regarding septic tanks. I suggest that he put in a Commencement matter on that issue, which concerns the grant not being available to people who purchase a home after the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Nuclear Waste (13 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 82 and 83 together. Senior officials from my Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) meet twice yearly with their counterparts from the United Kingdom (UK) through the UK-Ireland Contact Group on Radiological Matters. The matter of the storage and disposal of radioactive waste, and in particular the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF)...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...the Taoiseach said to me one day that we have to limit the number of judicial reviews taken, which we must do. An Taisce had no issue with the plant, the emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, licence or anything else but had an issue with the cowherd. How weird is that? The building itself is a pristine cheesemaking plant where there is a ready market for its products...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (7 Jul 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Ossian Smyth: ...indicated that she will withdraw amendment No. 20, so I will move then to amendment No. 27. It is likely that such a committee, as could be constituted based on the legislation, would be comprised of members of my Department or other public service bodies, such as the EPA. Those bodies, the Department, the EPA and other public service bodies have public service codes of conduct that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (5 Jul 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department was involved with other public sector bodies in an investigation of animal health and environmental concerns on the farm of the person for whom the Deputy has provided details. This inter-agency group (IAG) was convened in June 2004 and comprised my Department’s Laboratories, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Teagasc, the Health Services Executive (HSE) and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

..., so do the market opportunities. The second, and equally important point, is that for biowaste, at least, anaerobic digestion and composting must be considered as complementary not conflicting approaches. Talking to our members while preparing for this meeting, several themes arose. These included: planning delays, where it can take more than three years to gain consent; delays in the...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022) See 5 other results from this debate

Ossian Smyth: During the Second Stage debate, I mentioned that I intended to amend the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 to allow the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to consider applications for integrated pollution control and industrial emissions licences that are subject to the provisions of section 181 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 and that I intended to address that issue by...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: We have the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and various mechanisms to oversee any application of the kind the Deputy referred to. We cannot arbitrate for that on the floor of the House. Again, regarding any fresh investigation, there has been a whole series of reviews and I am not going to give an off-the-cuff response to the Deputy's request either. I will talk to the Tánaiste...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...elements and undertaking the characterisation and classification assessments for both surface and groundwater bodies. Under Regulation 10 of the 2003 Regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been assigned the responsibility of developing the appropriate monitoring programmes to be applied by public authorities assigned a duty of monitoring by the EPA. Further details of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (28 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...and monitoring of identified bathing waters is assigned to local authorities as specified in Regulation 7 of the Bathing Water Quality Regulations 2008.   The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the environmental regulator who ensure that the local authorities carry out their functions under Bathing Water Regulations.  As part of their role, the EPA publish an annual report...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Quality (28 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...complaints of pollution and for the enforcement, both directly and through oversight of Irish Water and local authorities, of environmental legislation in Ireland, including compliance. 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.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022) See 6 other results from this debate

Mr. John Martin: I thank the Chair and committee members for the opportunity to outline the Department of Transport’s ongoing engagement and inputs to the setting of sectoral emissions ceilings under the Climate and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021. I am principal officer over a new climate engagement and governance division established recently in the Department. I am...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (23 Jun 2022)

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

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (23 Jun 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Pa Daly: 212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the latest EPA water quality report. [27941/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Discussion (23 Jun 2022)

Mr. John Wickham: I think the management of waste would primarily be a matter for the EPA. Some of this material is naturally occurring.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...regulation team in Irish Water and that just happened on Tuesday, 21 June. There were no issues highlighted. Irish Water continues to liaise with the HSE and the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to ensure the notice is lifted as quickly as possible. On completion, Irish Water will liaise with the HSE and EPA on the lifting of that notice. I will personally take that matter up on...