Written answers

Friday, 6 September 2019

Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment

 
  • Electric Vehicle Grants
    1466. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a grant for the purchase of e-bikes similar to the e-car incentive. [35007/19]
  • Waste Disposal Charges
    1467. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce support for persons that have lifelong or long-term medical needs (details supplied); and if he...
  • Building Energy Rating Compliance
    1468. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the target of 50,000 retrofitted houses per year will be met in view of the fact that funding has run...
  • Nuclear Safety
    1471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the radiation measurements taken in County Donegal in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster have been retained by...
  • Waste Management
    1472. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated first- and final-year cost of the introduction of a 15 cent levy on single-use coffee cups. [36894/19]
  • Environmental Schemes
    1473. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the consultation that took place on a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34748/19]
  • Climate Change Policy
    1476. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which he remains satisfied that carbon emissions throughout the EU are measured equally with a view to...
  • Renewable Energy Generation
    1478. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports provided under the Climate Action Plan 2019 for the Tallaght district heating scheme; the objectives of...
  • Ministerial Advisers Data
    1479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the name of each person employed as an adviser or special adviser to him and the Minister of State in his Department;...
  • Mining Licences
    1480. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the basis for the ongoing policy that mining is not licensed in national parks; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Inland Fisheries
    1484. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to bring in a new statutory instrument to replace Statutory Instrument 906, which related to salmonid waters...
  • Electric Vehicles
    1485. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average number of new vehicles sold here in each of the past 10 years; the number of electric vehicles cars sold...
  • Renewable Heat Incentive
    1486. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding anaerobic digesters; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Warmer Homes Scheme
    1487. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to expand the warmth and well-being pilot scheme being operated in Dublin 8, 10, 12, 22 and 24 to other...
  • Warmer Homes Scheme Waiting Times
    1488. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will facilitate the hiring of more contractors in order to reduce the waiting times for the SEAI warmer homes...
  • Television Licence Fee Collection
    1489. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the legislative powers of enforcement enacted to support the successful bidder for television licence fees to reach...
  • Prospecting Licences
    1490. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied with the standard of assessment of an ecological impact assessment carried out by a company...
  • National Broadband Plan Data
    1491. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount expended on hosting meetings, entertainment and related services associated with the national broadband...
  • Broadband Service Provision
    1492. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter regarding the provision of broadband at a location (details supplied). [35119/19]
  • National Broadband Plan Data
    1493. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 2280 of 23 July 2019, if he will provide a schedule of the more than 300...
  • Broadband Service Provision
    1494. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has examined a technology in respect of providing broadband (details supplied); and if he will make...
  • Illegal Dumping
    1495. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expenditure on the anti-dumping initiative to date; the number of drones purchased for enforcement purposes; and...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    1496. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount expended on the renewal of licences (details supplied) by his Department since 2009 to date in 2019; the...
  • Warmer Homes Scheme Eligibility
    1497. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Broadcasting Legislation
    1498. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider adding the FAI cup final to the list of events that must be shown on free-to-air television; and...
  • Prospecting Licences
    1499. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if compensation will be payable under the provisions of the CETA trade agreement with Canada in the situation in which...
  • Biofuel Obligation Scheme
    1501. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to extend the biofuel obligation to home heating oil; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a...
  • Energy Conservation
    1502. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland has no more funding available for its deep retrofit pilot...
  • Warmer Homes Scheme Waiting Times
    1505. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the waiting time under the warmer homes scheme from the date of application to the approval of the application by the...
  • Television Licence Fee Collection
    1509. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a matter (details supplied) in relation to identification for public service workers will be addressed; and if he...
  • Consultancy Contracts Data
    1510. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the names of external consultancies that delivered and continue to deliver advice and training on all aspects of GDPR...
  • Energy Schemes
    1513. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the financial position of some applicants of the deep retrofit scheme (details...
  • Environmental Protection Agency
    1514. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if research studies have been carried out by a Department or the Environmental Protection Agency on the environmental...
  • Departmental Customer Charters
    1516. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of complaints his Department received under the customer service charter in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019;...
  • National Broadband Plan
    1517. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the network to be built under the national broadband plan will be in public ownership as recommended by the...
  • Community Involvement Scheme
    1519. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports being offered in relation to a case (details supplied) in view of recent developments; the status of the...
  • Energy Schemes
    1521. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position in circumstances in which a person had not applied for the SEAI deep retrofit grant before July 2019 in...
  • Waste Disposal
    1522. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role he has in approving WEEE operations; the basis on which an organisation do not operate in certain areas...
  • Legislative Reviews
    1523. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to update the Inland Fisheries Act 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36106/19]
  • Departmental Internships
    1524. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of unpaid internships issued and-or granted to persons to work in his Department over the past five years...
  • Mining Industry
    1525. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the procedure in relation to the granting of permission for large-scale rocket blasting of rock; the purposes for...
  • Protected Disclosures
    1526. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the safeguards in place to protect the identity of the person who has made the protected disclosure in instances in...
  • Cyber Security Protocols
    1527. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are dedicated, professionally trained and certified cybersecurity staff in relation to cybersecurity...
  • National Broadband Plan Implementation
    1530. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the residents of an estate (details supplied) will have high speed broadband access delivered under the national...
  • Better Energy Homes Scheme Data
    1532. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the uptake of SEAI grants in County Mayo since the grant was introduced to date; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Better Energy Homes Scheme
    1534. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to extend the SEAI grant to homes built after 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36336/19]
  • Illegal Dumping
    1535. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the level of funding provided to Mayo County Council for clean-up projects in the county; and if he will make a...
  • Local Authority Funding
    1536. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the level of funding provided to Mayo County Council for green initiatives projects in the county; and if he will make...
  • Postal Codes
    1537. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an Eircode postcode will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36390/19]
  • Departmental Bodies Data
    1538. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of positions on the boards of agencies and commercial State companies under the remit of his Department, in...
  • North-South Interconnector
    1540. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the procurement process in respect of the proposed North-South interconnector; if procurement is...
  • Broadband Service Provision
    1541. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the outcome of analyses at national and international level on the provision of high-speed 5G wireless internet and...
  • National Broadband Plan Implementation
    1542. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the proposed national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36535/19]
  • Departmental Staff
    1543. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the outcome of his considerations to provide additional staff in his Department in order to implement the Climate...
  • Departmental Strategies
    1544. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the all-of-Government clean air strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36570/19]
  • Departmental Expenditure
    1545. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the involvement of his Department in an organisation (details supplied); the amount invested in same to date; and if...
  • Better Energy Homes Scheme
    1546. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason low-income pensioners are precluded from availing of SEAI grants for wall insulation if they received...
  • Waste Management
    1547. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding provided in 2019 for the anti-dumping initiative. [36706/19]
  • Electric Vehicles
    1548. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding provided to support an expanded number of electric cars and the associated infrastructure. [36707/19]
  • National Oil Reserves Agency
    1549. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projected receipts from the National Oil Reserves Agency levy for 2019 and each of the next five years; the...
  • Prospecting Licences
    1551. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of an application for a prospecting licence by a company (details supplied) to prospect for base metals in...

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