Results 101-120 of 3,872 for epa

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,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Michael Fitzmaurice: Tthe Department is compiling soil types in different areas of the country at the moment. Teagasc's figures and those of the EPA are totally different at the moment. They are compiling that at present. Let us take Listowel, County Kerry, because I know it fairly well. There are cows out in fields that were originally peat bog. How do you get those to favourable status?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (23 Jan 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: There are currently three separate Domestic Waste Water Treatment System (DWWTS) grant schemes available to householders. The purpose of the grants is to provide financial assistance to householders to repair or upgrade their defective DWWTS, commonly called septic tanks. In order to avail of the grants, householders must have failed an inspection under the National Inspection Plan and be...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (23 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...for poultry litter must meet the regulatory requirements as set out under Article 11 of the Good Agricultural Practice for the Protection of Waters Regulations (SI 113 of 2022, as amended). The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is the competent authority responsible for these Regulations. Larger and more intensive poultry farms are also regulated under the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...water. We have families who have to get bottled water for their kids because they do not trust it. Even when the water is clean, people have told me it does not taste the same. I have been on to the EPA and the HSE-----

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Nuclear Plants (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Officials from my Department and from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) most recently visited the Sellafield site in July 2023. A similar visit took place in July 2022 and another is planned for later this year. These visits are an important opportunity for my officials and the EPA to see at first hand the decommissioning operations now underway at the various individual facilities at...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: A report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2021 concluded that there is little reliable data on the nature and extent of post-consumer textiles in Ireland. The report is available here: www.epa.ie/publications/circular-economy/resources/nature-an d-extent-of-post-consumer-textiles-in-ireland---study-report .php To address the information and data gaps identified by the EPA, my...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Boyd Barrett: 125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of reports that the EPA and SEAI are only including Dublin Airport’s on-site operating emissions in their reports, that this would not include emissions driven by its core business (aviation) or any associated road traffic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1659/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides employment supports and services to jobseekers and employers through the Intreo Employment Service. Intreo provides a wide range of supports to assist jobseekers, including those with a disability, to find work. Intreo also provides recruitment advice and support for employers including information on recruitment and retention incentives. Employment Supports for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (14 Dec 2023)

Simon Coveney: The main policy achievements by my Department since June 2020 and December 2022 are set out in our Statement of Strategy Report on Delivery, which is available on our the Department website. This report sets out details of the objectives realised under each of the department’s strategic goals. See: enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/dete-statement-of-strategy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (14 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department provides funding support to the private water sector and to individual households by way of capital grants and an annual subsidy through the Rural Water Programme. Private water supplies are those supplies not operated by Uisce Éireann and includes group water schemes, small private supplies and private wells. The local authorities have responsibility for the...