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Science Week: Statements (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...and help us with that very transformative task of innovation and the application of knowledge to the things we are doing in our daily lives. Last week we heard the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, report that two thirds of the waste which is dumped into municipal waste should not be there in the first place. That is not a complicated issue but I will say that many families are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...be changed and it needs to be changed to provide for public ownership and the re-municipalisation of waste collection throughout the country. The statistics speak for themselves. According to the EPA, the municipal waste generation trend in quantity terms is going in the wrong direction and increasing steadily. Recycling levels have plateaued since 2010, at 41%, well below the EU...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...have that, it will be hard to mobilise change. We need to bring not just the Bill itself but also the principles. Savings are being made on waste management at the same time as the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, reported during the week that two thirds of what goes into municipal waste should not be there at all. We have a problem in waste management. Again, rapid change will be...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (16 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...budgets and sectoral emissions ceilings has provided more urgent and sector-specific emissions reduction targets set over the 5-year budgetary periods. The latest emissions reports from the EPA highlight the challenge Ireland faces in meeting its highly ambitious climate objectives and legally-binding emissions targets. While the EPA’s projections show that greenhouse gas...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (16 Nov 2023)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 107 and 110 together. Data from the EPA's inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the years 1990 to 2022 show that Ireland's emissions have reduced by 3.1% over the past six years. The most recent EPA inventory figures show that Ireland's emissions fell by 1.8% between 2021 and 2022. This latest reduction was driven by higher fuel prices, reduced...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Supply (16 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...) Regulations 2018 provide for the establishment of a register of abstractions of water of more than 25 cubic metres per day. The register is maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The 2018 Regulations provide that the EPA shall publish by electronic means, and in such abridged manner as it thinks fit, details of registered water abstractions. The EPA may share...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (16 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department provides financial support through the domestic waste water treatment system (DWWTS) grant schemes to assist householders carry out works to their defective septic tanks. The grants are focused on the areas of greatest environmental priority to protect human health and the environment. They include a grant for necessary works where an advisory notice has been issued after an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (16 Nov 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...nutrients and warm settled weather. Algal blooms are not specifically monitored for in the national water-monitoring programme, as, by their nature, they can be relatively short-lived events. My Department is currently preparing Ireland’s third-cycle River Basin Management Plan, which will be a strategic government plan that will outline the national policies and high-level goals...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Malcolm Noonan: ...undermining of councillors' powers. Councillors still have quite considerable powers, functions and roles, and it is important to exercise them. Accountability and transparency in local government is vitally important, in particular in light of the EPA report produced yesterday which shed a very negative light on some local authorities in terms of their environmental performance and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Nov 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may be aware, the primary legislation dealing with noise pollution is the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992. The Act designates the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the primary body responsible for regulation of noise pollution. The EPA is also the sole designated prosecuting authority for offences under the Act. Any review of the existing legislation to provide...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Steven Matthews: ..., will be the next election but we never know. I hope the Electoral Commission will focus on how to get that information out there properly and work on the disinformation aspects of elections. Deputy Connolly spoke earlier about today's EPA report on local authorities' environmental enforcement reporting. Not only do we need to make sure our local councillors are resourced, have powers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...the linchpin around which we will try to get change. Maybe the witnesses could send us some details on the enforcement activity and the impact and so on because we had the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, in last week and it pointed the finger at local authorities. This week it is pointing the finger at particular local authorities that have failed. It named four today in the...

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...a comment from Deputy Whitmore who asked why our emissions are still going up. She will be glad to hear that they are falling. The authority on our level of greenhouse gas emissions is the EPA. It reported that our emissions fell 1.9% last year and that they have fallen 4.6% since pre-Covid times. Our emissions are falling and they are going to continue to fall this year as well....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Septic Tanks (9 Nov 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Malcolm Noonan: ...to reduce the impact on human health and the environmental risk from defective treatment systems. The changes come into effect from 1 January next year. The Central Statistics Office, CSO - not my Department - collects information on the types of wastewater treatment systems that serve households. Census 2016 recorded that there were nearly 500,000 domestic wastewater treatment...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

...revised structure for the Vote. The programme for climate action and environment leadership involved expenditure of just under €97 million, including grant support for the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. Expenditure under the energy transformation programme amounted to €1.97 billion, comprising €1.588 billion spent on the energy credits schemes and €387...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (9 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Blessington Reservoir, also known as Pollaphuca Reservoir, is monitored by the EPA to assess its ecological health for the Water Framework Directive. The most recent full assessment, using data from 2016 to 2021, classified the lake as being in satisfactory ecological condition (Good Ecological Status). Algal blooms (phytoplankton over-growth) in lakes are a natural phenomenon that can...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legal Services Regulation (9 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...system for adults and replaces it with a system of tiered and rights based decision-making supports. There are currently no plans to make amendments to section 60 of the 2015 Act, though my Department is closely monitoring the initial phase of operation of the new legislation, which must be given time to bed down. Section 60 deals with the content and witnessing of Enduring Powers...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (8 Nov 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...and businesses affected by last week’s flooding event. I am answering this question on behalf of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, but his Department has no function in regard to flood relief infrastructure. I have been informed by my colleagues in the OPW that following the flooding experienced in Louth last week as a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (7 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...of three feeding studies, two during the factory's operation and one when it was closed for a time, not published? Why were the 2005 findings of a botanist from UCD who had been commissioned by the EPA not taken seriously? Teagasc, UCD and several other vets concluded that the problem was outside the farm but the Department refused to even entertain that idea. Dan Brennan was basically...