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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Brian Leddin: ...the outset the Minister will make his opening statement. We will then consider each of the five programmes separately, with questions from members of the committee. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside of the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...to form a significant component of that auction. I am very keen to get as much community-orientated solar and wind power as possible within those projects. The industry is starting to ramp up and, after a long period of false promise, I am confident we will see solar numbers starting to rise. With regard to the North-South interconnector, we have discussed this in the past. For me,...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...building. Critically, it increases the value of a property. Buildings with a high energy ratings are attracting higher prices because people are starting to realise the comfort benefits and the long-term value benefits. Houses with low energy ratings will lose their capital value. That, combined with the low-cost loan, some sort of grant support and the pooling of expertise is how we...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Christopher O'Sullivan: ...the feedback on the ground as to the current scheme and on the current waiting list, which a number of members have spoken about already. People in my community have been waiting 18 months and longer. The Minister has already touched on how he is going to address that in upskilling, retraining and increasing the number of tradespeople who can roll out this initiative. The Minister need...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Eamon Ryan: .... If in the end we are producing seven times our current demand, if we get this right, the real question is what we will do with it. It will require transportation. A lot will be transported along the high-voltage, direct current cable as part of a European grid to a balancing grid, giving us export capability, but there is also great potential for conversion to hydrogen, which could...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...in recent years. The Fine Gael backbench motion to stop fracked gas in the country was very progressive and positive. Deputy Pringle's Bill to stop investment in fossil fuels was the correct long-term decision for the country. The decision to end oil and gas exploration was, again, the correct decision, made by the previous Government and this one. In that context, a policy signal that...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...problem, particularly my constituency and those of Deputy Devlin and Deputy Bruton, respectively, which are the three constituencies most affected. To be honest, this is a very large structural, long-term problem. In the short term, and this is more out of interest than anything else, projects are examining the likes of using remote sensory devices on buoys in the bay. We cannot get...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...spent on the recent court case. What are those initiatives? Ireland had one of the highest rates of respiratory disease in the EU even before the onset of Covid-19. People will now be experiencing long Covid and there are high hospitalisation rates and emergencies. The Irish Thoracic Society has stated we are facing an unprecedented crisis in respiratory health because we have so few...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...of us. On the support for vulnerable persons, the waste enforcement division is currently reviewing the efforts made to date to deliver supports for vulnerable persons with conditions such as lifelong or long-term medical incontinence. That is something at which the waste enforcement division is looking at specifically and I will ask its representatives to come back to the Deputy...