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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Draft National Energy and Climate Plan: Discussion (14 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: ...the Government. I have the comfort of being in opposition, where we look for pathways, plans and supports. They will point to the lack of information, particularly with regard to, for example, the land-use strategy or the unallocated savings in the climate action plan and the carbon budgets. Is that reasonable from Government? Is there more it can do in the meantime? What is the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: ...comes in here and talks about the success of retrofitting and heat pump installation, those families see that it is being done in other people's homes. There are, of course, questions about land use, sustainability and the supply chain. However, others have raised the weaknesses in the design of the schemes and the fact people are being left behind. It behoves the Government to find...

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

Darren O'Rourke: 136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how much HVO fuel Ireland produced in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; how much, if any, was exported in each of the aforementioned years; what proportion can be considered sustainable versus land destruction, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1904/24]

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

Darren O'Rourke: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how much HVO fuel Ireland imported in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; what proportion can be considered sustainable versus land destruction, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1905/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Oil Specifications (17 Jan 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: 139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the proportion of HVO fuel that is supplied within and to Ireland that is sustainable versus land use destructive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1907/24]

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

Darren O'Rourke: 345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the provisions of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 provide for a clawback charge to be made on mortgage-property registered with the Register of Deeds but not with the Land Registry, that is, whether a property must be registered with the Land Registry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56159/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (13 Dec 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is essential to have a property registered with the Land Registry regarding the Croí Cónaithe towns fund; if not, if in the case of inherited properties, for example, registration in the Registry of Deeds on foot of a deed of assent will suffice for the purposes of application processing; and if he will make...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: ...pipeline by any local authority within whose functional area a proposed route, or any part of such a route would, if the pipeline were constructed, be situate, or any of the following on, in or over whose land such route or part would in such circumstances be situate, namely— (a) a harbour authority (within the meaning of the Harbours Act 1946), (b) a company (within the meaning...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: ...the memorandum of understanding between the European Commission and Egypt at the Mediterranean Gas Forum; if he is further aware that this does not include a clause to exclude occupied Palestinian land which contravenes Irish and EU policy that all agreements with Israel should be explicitly inapplicable to territories occupied by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: ...paths on the north runway at Dublin Airport have not been appropriately assessed in terms of noise pollution and mitigation. Since the runway opened, more than 138,000 flights have departed and landed. In Ratoath, Ashbourne and surrounding areas, 30,000 people are being impacted. That was never intended to be the case. Will the Government and the Department of Transport ensure that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: That is the land use review. Are there any other gaps in the building blocks for coming to a decision like that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: ...anaerobic digesters include how many of them should there be, where would they be appropriately located, their sustainability with regard to what is being fed into them and how we are using our land. There are a number of applications across the State, including in my own area. Those are the questions that communities have about these projects. My sense about all this is that it is far...

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: ...character for Israel. For decades Palestinians have had their lives ravaged and brutalised by Israel's apartheid regime. They have been living under an occupation, blockaded for 16 years. Their land has been occupied and annexed. They have been denied the right to return. What is the international community doing? In truth, very little. Those countries that have remained silent...

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

Darren O'Rourke: ...to try to get to the bottom of. Dr. Bleasdale spoke about the important two years ahead. Deputy Bruton mentioned the challenge of carbon farming. A number of contributors have spoken about we reorient our land use strategy to incentivise and reward biodiversity and restoring nature. It is not within the gift of this Department, or any individual Department or Minister. How does the...

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

Darren O'Rourke: ...period to 2026, the piece Mr. Ó Donnchú says might keep him awake at night and the building blocks, data and information in that regard. This was hinted at in terms of the assessment and our land use strategy. Regarding carbon farming, how we might account for it, how we might reward it and how it might be measured, what are the information deficits that need to be filled...

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

Darren O'Rourke: ...is also some really positive work happening with the rewilding project at Dunsany Nature Reserve. A number of contributors have expressed their concern about the model used in terms of the amount of land in pasture and the amount of land that could be in agricultural use. Can the witnesses speak to the priority that will be given to nature in the new national park? The negotiations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: ...What would be the barriers to delivery? To Mr. Towey or Mr. Byrne, nature-based solutions, policy and practice were mentioned. Is there a cross-cutting? We heard earlier from people working in land use strategy. What are the barriers to delivering that? It is something that is pointed towards, but what are the barriers in policy and practice to delivering nature-based solutions? Is...

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: ...interconnected issue of Ireland's biodiversity crisis. Until recently, successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael-led Governments failed to take these issues seriously. Decades of their paralysis have landed us in the situation we are now in, which is way behind where we once had the potential to be. Data from the NPWS note that Ireland is suffering widespread habitat destruction and...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: ...to speak to this motion and this urgent issue today, which is the EU's nature restoration law that addresses the crisis in biodiversity, and we have a crisis in biodiversity. Some 85% of Ireland's habitats are in inadequate or poor states. Despite the green image of our island, our forest cover stands at just 11%. This pales in comparison to the European average of 35%. The number of...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Jun 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: ...any circumstances, but are shocking in the current context. Despite the Government having this measure and a range of others to reduce the cost of energy at its fingertips for quite some time, Ireland remains in the same position it has always been. Energy companies have earned exorbitant and eye-watering profits while ordinary families and workers suffer. Ireland has some of the...