Written answers
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Energy Conservation
54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if heat tests are carried out as part of the national retrofitting programme in advance of carrying out a retrofit.... - Fisheries Protection
55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a series of matters (details supplied) will be taken into account rather than introducing a brown tag regime on the... - Energy Conservation
56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of concerns (details supplied) concerning the warmer home scheme, that inadequate work is carried out to... - Departmental Expenditure
57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the €170.2 million underspend in residential and community retrofits in 2022; the factors that... - Departmental Data
58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of retrofits carried out in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, broken down by scheme and by pre to... - Energy Conservation
62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of additional workers required to reach the Government's national retrofitting targets; and if he will make a... - Departmental Schemes
63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the solar PV scheme for schools will be amended to include free-standing solar structures as well as roof-top... - Wind Energy Guidelines
64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has issued any guidance on the disposal of decommissioned wind turbine blades; if he accepts that due... - Energy Conservation
65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how many applications have been made and approved by the SEAI for residential retrofitting for houses built prior to... - Wind Energy Generation
66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to the order of business debate of 5 December 2023, to outline the consideration being given to the development... - Waste Management
68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider a proposal from a post-primary school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the... - Local Authorities
71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current annual economic value of cumulative energy efficiency savings resulting from intentional energy efficiency... - Recycling Policy
73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of retailers who have signed up for the deposit return scheme to date; how many retails have yet... - Departmental Schemes
74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider making properties in the private rented sector eligible for funding equivalent to the better energy... - EU Directives
75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the legal actions and actions of instances being taken against his Department for failure to implement EU directives;... - Departmental Schemes
77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost to double the domestic solar PV scheme by 50% over the next five years. [56818/23] - Broadband Infrastructure
79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review correspondence (details supplied); and the status of the roll-out of fibre broadband at this property.... - Climate Change Policy
80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the Youth Assembly on Climate; and how he plans to respond to the report’s recommendations. [55772/23] - Energy Usage
81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56906/23] - Research and Development
82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South Ministerial... - Energy Usage
83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how persons can get access to their personal data usage having installed a smart meter without signing up to a smart... - National Broadband Plan
84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a property (details supplied) is excluded from the NBI scheme even though the properties either side are... - Departmental Schemes
89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of the number of domestic solar PV upgrades undertaken in 2023; the average size in kw of... - Solar Energy Guidelines
90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the allowable size of invertors on residential solar units; whether there has been a change in the size permitted; if... - Departmental Schemes
91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the targeted solar PV scheme for medically vulnerable persons is in operation; the process by which people can avail... - Waste Management
95. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he is taking any steps to ban disposable vapes as they are increasingly becoming an environmental hazard in... - Departmental Schemes
96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are retrofitting grants that are specific to apartment complexes; if not, his plans to put such specific... - Departmental Data
99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been... - Recycling Policy
103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that that 75% of collected clothes are exported abroad and that there is an urgent need for regulations... - Departmental Schemes
104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any protections for deposits placed by customers with participants in schemes supported by the SEAI for... - Environmental Investigations
105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of reports carried out on the former Dunsink Dump, Dublin 11, in relation to toxins and odours coming from... - Legislative Process
107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if all sections of all Acts under the remit of his Department in the past three years have been commenced; and the... - Electricity Grid
108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what, if any, additional funding has been provided to increase grid capacity and-or to prepare the grid for renewable... - National Broadband Plan
110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a property (details supplied) can expect to be provided with high-speed broadband. [1121/24] - Departmental Staff
111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the WTE staff by job title working in the geological survey division of his Department as of 3 January 2024; the number... - Electricity Generation
112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on the Celtic Interconnector; and if the project is on track to meet the target of a 2026... - National Broadband Plan
113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a property (details supplied) was not included in the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan as it does not... - Postal Services
114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an additional Eircode will be assigned to a building (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a... - Departmental Schemes
115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the current SEAI housing insulation scheme (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on... - National Broadband Plan
116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to examine a matter (details supplied) in relation to the NBI broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the... - Departmental Schemes
118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process for a firm to register on the SEAI website; what checks are performed; and if he will make a statement on... - Recycling Policy
121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has assessed the capital investment which will be required in Ireland to meet higher recycling and reuse targets... - State Bodies
122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects to fill the vacancies on the board of Inland Fisheries Ireland. [1629/24] - Electricity Supply Board
123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he last met the CEO of the ESB. [1630/24] - Greenhouse Gas Emissions
125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of reports that the EPA and SEAI are only including Dublin Airport’s on-site operating emissions... - Post Office Network
126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in light of the Post Office scandal in the UK, if he has considered conducting a review of the situation of postmasters... - Environmental Policy
127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 21 November 2023, to provide an update on the development of the National... - Electricity Generation
128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 28 September 2023, the number of submissions received by his Department as... - Air Quality
129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the required establishment of dedicated resources within regional lead authorities to... - Departmental Schemes
130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is any possibility of ensuring a fully funded energy upgrade scheme application by a person (details supplied)... - Postal Services
131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he supports the introduction of an An Post Ombudsman who could mediate in all disputes between An Post and... - Departmental Schemes
132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when an applicant (details supplied) can expect works to be completed in regard to the warmer homes scheme; and if he... - Food Waste
133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether there are plans to implement a scheme that bans the destroying of food, which is still fit for consumption, in... - Fuel Sales
134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the supply of HVO fuel to Ireland; if the supply is sufficient to meet current demand in all... - Fuel Oil Specifications
138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment about the classification of HVO fuel as a vehicular fuel; if there are plans to expand its classification to include... - Recycling Policy
144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how the deposit return scheme, due to come into effect from 1 February, will pertain to vintners and pubs; and if he... - Workplace Relations Commission
145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment why a company (details supplied) that is delivering the emergency call answering service, which is a State contract,...
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