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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he can take to speed up the provision of broadband services through the medium of fibre-optics throughout County Kildare, with particular reference to known blackspots; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21831/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which each sector in the economy can contribute to greenhouse gas reduction over the next five years without negatively impacting on economic output; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21832/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which his Department has examined the fullest possible extent to which all measures to offset the impact of meeting such targets on industry, sector by sector, with particular reference to the need to avoid permanent damage to the economy while at the same time meeting carbon reduction targets; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which his Department continues to explore electricity generation from non-fossil fuels by way of wind, wave or solar; the full extent of the investment to date in each element of the sector; the degree to which he expects such investment to materialise in each of the next five years; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which mobile telephone services remain good when compared with other European Union or adjoining countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21836/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the provision of broadband continues to meet targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21837/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the national waste management plan continues to address the relevant issues, with particular reference to reduction, reuse and recycle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21838/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which electricity generation and production costs here are in line with those in other EU member states; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21840/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Advertising (14 May 2024)

Carol Nolan: 140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total costs incurred by his Department from 2019 to date relating to the placing of advertisements in print media; the names of the print media publications involved, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21863/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (14 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the Government’s clean air strategy. [21908/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (14 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will make a statement on the waste and circular economy action plan. [21909/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence (14 May 2024)

Written Answers — Department of Defence: State Properties (14 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 144. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the St. Bricin's military hospital in Stoneybatter, which is currently lying idle, could be readied in case of emergency or surge capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21260/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (14 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 145. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department would consider increasing the size of the 'bambi buckets', the collapsible bags that hang from a helicopter assisting with firefighting and so on (details supplied); if he will provide an update on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21261/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Meetings (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: 147. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department has ever engaged with companies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21340/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: 148. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the contribution of the Defence Forces to missions enforcing a United Nations mandated arms embargo on Libya; if he is aware of any activities by any Irish citizens in breach of the arms embargo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21341/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (14 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 150. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the two recently acquired Naval Service inshore patrol vessels will enter service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21533/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (14 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 151. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the implantation of the strategic framework to support the transformation of the Defence Forces into an organisation that is fit for the purpose of defending the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21534/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ukraine War (14 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 156. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline the training that the Defence Forces have provided to Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21539/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Employment Rights (14 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: 157. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if any State, semi-State or commercial semi-State agency under the aegis of their Department is aware of any cases of bogus self-employment in any bodies under their remit from 2020 to 1 May 2024; if they will outline if there are currently any cases from such agencies or bodies currently before the SCOPE section of the Department of Social...