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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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023) See 47 other results from this debate

Brian Leddin: The meeting will be split into two sessions. The first is with representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. Also with us is Professor Mark Scott. The second session will be with officials from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The purpose of the sessions is to examine the recommendations...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Research Funding (7 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he proposes to make up the shortfall in the PhD stipend, to ensure that PhD researchers funded by his Department either directly or through bodies such as the EPA, who have been excluded from the planned increase in stipends for PhD students, are treated in an equitable manner with other Government-funded PhD...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Data Centres (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department led on the publication of the original 'Government Statement on the Role of Data Centres in Ireland's Enterprise Strategy' in summer 2018. A revised version of this Statement was developed and published in July of 2022, with collaboration on both documents from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, the Department of Housing, Local Government and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (26 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...inbox all day long. If it has arrived, I certainly have not seen it. This is a welcome opportunity to discuss another in a series of excellent reports from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, detailing our water quality. The latest is titled, Urban Waste Water Treatment in 2022. Broadly-speaking, the EPA has been doing an excellent job in assessing the quality of water in our...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023) See 7 other results from this debate

Mattie McGrath: The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, has issued another report today. Its last report blamed farmers for polluting our waterways. Farmers have implemented huge mitigation measures and are continuing to do so but need time to show results. I have been raising the issue of sewerage plants in every part of the country. This EPA report does not mention one plant in County Tipperary. In...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Oct 2023)

Pippa Hackett: I thank Deputy Smith for the question. It is an important aspect and something many people want to understand. The Deputy will probably be aware that the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is responsible for the reporting of emissions and removals associated with land use activities on an annual basis to the EU and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC....

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) See 9 other results from this debate

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Mr. Doyle. There is a lot more to dig into there, but I want to have a look at water issues. Another Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, report out this morning tells us that, shockingly, three Olympic-sized swimming pools of untreated raw sewage go into Ireland's water systems every day. Some of the comments made by the EPA director, Dr. Tom Ryan, indicate that, 30 years after...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...been engaged in a number of activities to assess and develop nature-based solutions for flood risk management. In 2019, a four-year research project, under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) research programme, titled ‘A Strategic Look at Natural Water Retention Measures’ (SLOWWATERS) commenced. This ongoing research has a budget of €508,000 and is co-funded...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (26 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...draining into a Nitrates Directive monitoring point where water quality is poor, or where worsening trends occur over the period 2022 compared to 2021. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) completed the water quality review in accordance with the Commission criteria. In June they published the outcome of the review, as illustrated by the "red map" showing areas that failed at...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (26 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (DHLGH) is the lead authority for the Nitrates Regulations and the associated Nitrates Action Programme (NAP). My Department works very closely with DHLGH in this regard. Officials from both Departments attend regular meetings of the European Commission's Nitrates Committee and Expert Group. To date in 2023, three of these meetings...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Infrastructure (26 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...of exposure that people experience in everyday environments in Ireland. All results obtained were low and well below current exposure limits recommended in by ICNIRP. This report is available on the EPA’s website at www.epa.ie.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Tim Lombard: I wish to raise the issue of the dairy industry and where we are at the moment regarding the nitrates derogation. The nitrates derogation was clarified in the past few months. The EPA published a map on 1 July which puts Ireland in two different zones regarding organic manure, one zone in 250 kg N/ha and one in 220 kg N/ha. The knock-on implication is that those in the 220 kg N/ha zone...