Written answers

Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment

 
  • Electricity Supply Board
    175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 279 of 26 November 2009, to detail where in the Government books is the...
  • Recycling Policy
    176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of chemical recycling for flexible plastic packaging and other mixed polyethylene/polypropylene in Ireland;...
  • Renewable Energy Generation
    177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when householders who produce surplus solar energy will be paid (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
  • Energy Prices
    178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options available to a priority vulnerable electricity customer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
  • Broadband Infrastructure
    179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to ensure broadband is provided to a household (details supplied). [27203/23]
  • Climate Change Policy
    180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether his Department has assigned work on preparing a regulatory regime for carbon capture and storage; and whether...
  • Energy Conservation
    181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can suggest a solution to an issue affecting a person (details supplied) who has applied for a one-stop-shop...
  • Recycling Policy
    182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he agrees that most people in rural areas recycle their garden waste on-site and use compost as a fertiliser, and...
  • Fisheries Protection
    183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the progress in the conservation of salmon stocks in the rivers in the south east; how...
  • Gníomhú ar son na hAeráide
    184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment i bhfianaise na heolaíochta a pléadh ag COP27 a léiríonn go ndéanfaí dochar...
  • Departmental Reviews
    185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has undertaken a study to determine the number of individuals in energy poverty or who are in arrears...
  • Electricity Supply Board
    186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to publish any Shareholder Expectations Frameworks and any formal dividend policies for the ESB that were in place for...
  • Climate Change Policy
    187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to submit an updated National Energy and Climate Plan before the 30 June deadline. [27424/23]
  • Energy Conservation
    188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of rental properties that were retrofitted under each SEAI scheme, in tabular form. [27425/23]
  • Energy Policy
    189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the government's position on the 19 June EU Energy Council agenda items. [27426/23]
  • Energy Conservation
    190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the capital and current allocation for each retrofit scheme, in tabular form. [27427/23]
  • Departmental Staff
    191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of the pay grades hired in his Department division energy security emergency management;...
  • Departmental Data
    192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the potential cost of providing every second-level student in the State with a reusable water bottle, which could be...
  • Energy Conservation
    193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action his Department is taking to ensure that price gouging does not occur under energy grant schemes, including...
  • National Broadband Plan
    194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a medical centre (details supplied) in County Kerry will be included in the National Broadband rollout because of...
  • Renewable Energy Generation
    197. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will make a grant available for the installation of batteries as part of a residential solar panel system; and if...
  • Energy Policy
    199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider increasing the Clean Export Premium (CEP) feed-in tariff rate; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Sustainable Development Goals
    200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of a report published by an organisation (details supplied); if he will respond to the recommendations...
  • Departmental Communications
    201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of social media videos posted on each of his Departmental social media accounts, or the social media...
  • Departmental Policies
    202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department, and public bodies and agencies under his remit, have an anti-racism policy which can be accessed by...
  • Waste Management
    203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of the re-municipalisation of waste services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27723/23]
  • Environmental Schemes
    204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of the average cost of a retrofit under each SEAI retrofitting scheme. [27720/23]
  • Renewable Energy Generation
    205. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to develop hydro power in Ireland; if his Department are liaising with the range of State agencies including...
  • Energy Policy
    206. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that the SEAI's database of BER ratings and the CSO's database on household incomes are entirely...
  • Environmental Policy
    207. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date on which a public consultation on the use of direct lines and private wires will be launched; if he will...
  • Renewable Energy Generation
    208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he is taking to address the barriers to hybrid connections to facilitate wind, solar and battery...
  • Energy Infrastructure
    211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of smart electricity meters installed; the geographic distribution of the smart meters installed; and the...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total spend on consulting services and on ‘business-as-usual’ outsourcing, as differentiated under...
  • Broadband Infrastructure
    216. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of undersea cables categorised as 'critical infrastructure' that pass through marine waters in the Irish...
  • National Broadband Plan
    217. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if fibre broadband service will be provided to an area (details supplied) as part of the current roll out; and if he...
  • Climate Change Policy
    218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which policies to achieve 2030 climate goals have been tested in order to create behavioural change; and...
  • Departmental Data
    219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff seconded to his Department from a company (details supplied) in the past ten years to date; the...
  • Energy Production
    221. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the costs to date of providing emergency power generation under the measures carried out as part of the consent granted...
  • Electricity Generation
    223. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what he expects the all-in costs to the Exchequer are in terms of (euros per MWHr) of emergency electricity generation...
  • Renewable Energy Generation
    224. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce supports towards the purchase and installation of solar photovoltaic panels for those in receipt...
  • National Broadband Plan
    225. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for the rollout of at least 30mb broadband speeds to a location (details supplied) in County Donegal as...
  • Environmental Investigations
    226. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the fact that 2,000 fish were found dead at Ballymacraven river in North Clare recently; the cause of...
  • Water Services
    227. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he anticipates water shortages this summer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28499/23]
  • Electricity Generation
    228. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the proposed plans byESB to switch its power generation plant at Moneypoint in County Clare from coal to...
  • Telecommunications Services
    229. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the failure by the communications regulator to act in respect of contract changes by telephone providers...
  • Renewable Energy Generation
    230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Government has looked at alternative fuels which are better for the environment (details supplied); and if he...
  • Data Protection
    231. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the security protections in place for remote workers within civil and public service organisations to safeguard against...

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