Written answers
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Energy Conservation
112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to include HAP tenancies in the SEAI warmer homes scheme. [54980/23] - Departmental Data
114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of doubling the funding available for heating control grants. [54464/23] - Environmental Policy
115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the Local Future: Connecting Communities Report of February 2023, particularly its... - Departmental Funding
116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding options made available by his Department for community and voluntary organisations to lead on climate... - Renewable Energy Generation
117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the incentives for communities to progress solar energy or wind energy projects; and if he will make a... - Electricity Grid
118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current position in relation to the national grid infrastructure (details supplied); and if he will make a... - Departmental Schemes
120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the renewable energy support scheme or any other financial support is in place for people living in the vicinity of... - Departmental Data
121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role and function of a company (details supplied), a consortium of producers operating within the Republic of... - Departmental Contracts
122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his proposed three-year extension of the soon-to-expire existing ten-year national postcode system (Eircode)... - Departmental Bodies
123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide details on his Department's role in selecting members for the citizen engagement working group established... - Legislative Programme
124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on the progress in introducing the Aarhus Convention Bill. [54696/23] - Departmental Policies
125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the key policy achievements realised and new initiatives taken by his Department during 2023; and if he will make a... - Just Transition
126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to allow the completion of a key project as part of the Just Transition (details supplied); and if he will make a... - Renewable Energy Generation
127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of offshore renewable facilities delivered to date in 2023. [54844/23] - Invasive Species Policy
129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and officials in the Inland Fisheries division can confirm that pink salmon (oncorhynchus gorbuscha) are legally... - Departmental Data
130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason no meeting was held by an organisation (details supplied) in July 2023 considering his statement on 20 June... - Energy Conservation
131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the development of a residential retrofit loan guarantee scheme; when the scheme will be open for... - Legislative Measures
132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of the National Cyber Security Bill; and when this Bill will progress. [54952/23] - Departmental Data
133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total funding drawn down as part of the better energy warmer homes scheme in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular... - State Bodies
145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost of staffing for environmental planning in An Bord Pleanála; and the full cost per post level in 2020,... - Waste Management
147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has engaged with local authorities that have voted to municipalise waste collection services; and if... - Public Sector Staff
149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of WTE and THE staff, by grade, in the SEAI, in tabular form. [54989/23] - Energy Conservation
154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what measures are being taken to reduce the current wait times, currently in excess of 20 months, on works completing... - Public Sector Staff
161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the workforce plan for climate action officers in local authorities; the total average cost for WTE per staffing level;... - Electricity Grid
162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average cost for a renewable energy community to connect to the electricity grid. [55024/23] - Departmental Data
163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total funding allocated to the Irish Environment Network in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and in Budget 2024. [55026/23] - Departmental Properties
168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of vacant and derelict properties and sites that are owned by his Department; his plans to bring each of... - Public Sector Pensions
169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if pensioners or soon-to-be pensioners of An Post, who were originally employees of the Department of Posts and... - Environmental Schemes
170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports that will be made available to small retailers to take part in the deposit return scheme; if any research... - Nuclear Plants
171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the Government was first made aware of reported leaks from the Magnox swarf storage silo, MSSS, at the Sellafield... - An Garda Síochána
172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to review a response from An Garda Síochána (details supplied); if he is aware that this unit can no longer... - Departmental Priorities
173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his main policy and legislative priorities for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55206/23] - Energy Policy
174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if and how his Department plans to implement energy sharing; if there are barriers to energy sharing; and if he will... - Electricity Grid
175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what actions, if any, his Department is taking to overcoming the barriers that exist for renewable energy communities... - Energy Policy
176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 44 of 22 November 2023, to report on the Government's engagements with other EU... - National Broadband Plan
177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for a connection to the NBI scheme for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the... - Departmental Data
179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications for the national home energy upgrade scheme in each month since February 2022; the number of... - Greenhouse Gas Emissions
180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department collects data on public sector organisations’ emissions, and funding of offset initiatives, in... - Departmental Bodies
181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date on which the accelerating renewable electricity task force was established; the date of its first and all...
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