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

Eamon Ryan: ...Adaptation Framework (NAF) be reviewed at least every five years. Following a 2022 review of the 2018 NAF, I approved the review Report which recommended the development of a new NAF. My Department engaged with key adaptation sectors, the EPA and the Climate Change Advisory Council to develop the new NAF which I approved for a statutory consultation. The draft, published on 19...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Nuclear Safety (7 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) is the lead government department for radiation policy and nuclear safety. My Department is assisted in this role by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) who provide scientific and technical expertise on nuclear and radiological matters. The main Irish legislation in relation to Radiological Protection is the...

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

Eamon Ryan: ...and with the detailed pathways to 2030 set out in Climate Action Plan 2024, will be finalised in Q1 of this year. The updated strategy will be the first national long-term climate strategy to be prepared in line with the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Acts 2015 to 2021. As the updated strategy will conform to both EU and national requirements, it will also be submitted to the EU...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (7 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: It would be inappropriate for me to comment on any aspect of an appeal undertaken by a company in respect of an EPA decision. I note the Deputy is referring to matters dating back some 50 years ago and I am advised that IDA Ireland does not have records dating back to 1974. Aughinish Alumina manufactures alumina, a feedstock for the production of aluminium metal, which is sold to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Chairperson and Future Contributions of Inland Fisheries Ireland and the Board: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

...lost in not building close relationships with cognate organisations. I mentioned some of them in the opening statement. The most obvious ones are the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the EPA, which is clearly an extremely important player, and the local authorities, in terms of their water monitoring people and the local authority waters programme office, LAWPRO. All these are...

Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...challenge of climate and digital transformation in the document Impact 2030 but if that is the case, why not involve Teagasc, the Marine Institute, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, the EPA and so on? These are the key researchers in those fields of how we are going to drive change. It is not a convincing argument. I struggle to see the rationale. Impact 2030 refers to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mick Barry: ...surges into washing machines and dishwashers. It does not effect every home but there is no question that it has affected many thousands of homes. Uisce Éireann statistics indicate that on nine separate weeks in the past 18 months, complaints from the public were more than ten times the number that would normally be expected. The problem began in earnest when Uisce Éireann...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (31 Jan 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: ...from this brand-new wastewater treatment plant, which goes into the River Bandon's special area of conservation, SAC, and does not comply with the conditions the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, has set out. We are therefore in a situation where this town, like other towns throughout Ireland, is looking to expand, grow and drive commerce and industry but it is being hampered by this....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...do more. We should be very wary about that for the simple reason of asking how much more rewetting we want. How poor do we need to make ourselves before we have enough done? In recent days, the EPA has claimed that the sacrifices made so far are not sufficient and have had no worthwhile impact in alleviating climate change. It should come forward and tell us more about it. If the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (30 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...to abate activities. Several Irish assessment studies on the issue have been conducted in recent years - SEAI, 2008: "Assessment of the Potential for Geological Storage of CO2 for the Island of Ireland", EPA, 2010: "An Assessment of the Potential for Geological Storage of CO2 in the Vicinity of Moneypoint, Co. Clare" and more recently the GSI 2014: “Irish Sea Carbon Capture and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (30 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...local authority to determine the most appropriate public awareness, enforcement and clean-up actions in relation to illegal dumping taking account of local circumstances and priorities. My Department does not collate statistics on the amount or level of illegal dumping taking place across the country. Questions in relation to the levels of illegal dumping in each county should be...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (30 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The EPA is the competent authority for the collation of national waste statistics and reports annually on Ireland’s performance against a range of European waste directive and regulations. These reports are available at National Waste Statistics | Environmental Protection Agency (epa.ie). In addition, the National Waste Collection Permit Office, which is responsible for the issuing of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (30 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...Protection Act 1991 (Ionising Radiation) Regulations 2019, the use of radioactive substances and management of the radioactive waste is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Radioactive sources can be either sealed or unsealed. The most common radioactive substances that are used for medical purposes are unsealed. They have a short half-life, and only remain active for a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Supply (30 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...capital upgrades completed to ensure that treatment levels are compliant with the requirements of the Drinking Water Directive. The remainder are currently undergoing capital upgrades and improvements. My Department will now study the judgement carefully and will engage with the European Commission, Uisce Éireann and local authorities to agree a work programme to address any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Functions (25 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Thomas Gould: ...comparable to Glanmire, but Glanmire has one of the major roads in the country next to it as well as the Dunkettle roundabout, which is a cause of air pollution. What role does the Minister's Department have in air pollution monitoring and what more can be done? Will the Minister ask the EPA to install more air monitors in Cork, especially on the northside and in areas like Glanmire?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Quality (25 Jan 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Duncan Smith: ...we are an airport community and airport people. We live next to an airport so we understand what to expect but this is over and above that. The confused nature of Fingal County Council and the EPA and the voluntary nature of the DAA's obligations in this regard means we are not getting enough regulation in this area. I think the Minister would want such regulation.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Nuclear Safety (25 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: ..., and engages actively in the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and under the Convention on Nuclear Safety, with the UK and with EU partners to this end. Officials from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), engage regularly with UK counterparts and relevant regulators, including under the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (25 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: ...what progress has been made to date in respect of the key actions aimed at tackling rising waste generation and to improve the management of waste being generated in Ireland, as set out in the EPA 2021 National Waste Statistics Report in view that Ireland is on course to miss EU waste recycling targets in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2631/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (25 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Bruton: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the progress in developing a new circular economy strategy with sectoral targets, and an EPA programme of actions, which implement the provisions of the Circular Economy Act. [2979/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Nuclear Safety (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...(EA) at the bi-annual meetings of the UK-Ireland Contact Group on Radiological Matters, and at its most recent meeting on the 29-30 November 2023, which was hosted by the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) at their headquarters in County Wexford. This group comprises senior officials and representatives from my Department, the EPA, the UK Department of Energy Security and Net Zero,...