Catherine Martin

Green Party · Dublin Rathdown

Activity on Environment — 147 events (8 lobbying · 138 questions · 1 votes) full profile →

• 2025-01-21
  LOBBY
  Irish Hotels Federation Tourism

  • Seeking Government measures to support the continued recovery of Ireland's tourism and hospitality industry
• 2025-01-20
  LOBBY
  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA 2 returns Agriculture

  • Suckler Cow Supports - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Dairy - 2024 General Election
• 2025-01-20
  LOBBY
  An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland Environment

  • Planning and Development Bill 2023
• 2025-01-18
  LOBBY
  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA 10 returns AgricultureEU Affairs

  • Farm Forestry
  • Designated Natura Areas
  • Horticulture and Potatoes - 2024 General Election
  • Simplified, Fully Funded Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
  • IFA CENTRAL ASKS of Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Nitrates Directive/Derogation - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
  • Soil Monitoring and Resilience
  • EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)
  • EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)
  • Agri Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
• 2025-01-17
  LOBBY
  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA 3 returns EnvironmentBanking and Financial Institutions

  • EU Environment Fund
  • Supports within Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund
  • Banking
• 2025-01-16
  LOBBY
  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA Environment

  • Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme (tyres)
• 2025-01-15
  LOBBY
  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA 4 returns Local GovernmentSocial ProtectionEnvironment

  • LEADER
  • Farm Assist
  • Water
  • Planning Permission - IFA Submission to all Political Parties and Dáil Éireann Candidates for the 2024 General Election
• 2024-10-07
  LOBBY
  Sisters of Mercy Environment

  • Our future gas supply needs to be in line with the climate law and carbon budget.
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of progress and a projected timeline for implementation of action No. 31 of the Climate Action Plan in relation to the need for a support scheme for the solar PV microgeneration scheme to ensure that persons can sell excess electricity they produce back to the grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4203/20]
• 2019-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps taken to implement the National Positive Ageing Strategy in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53598/19]
• 2019-12-18
  VOTE
  Environmental Policy

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 38–76
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if education training boards are bodies for the purposes of section 15 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50065/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ensure that large data farms make sufficient financial contributions for the required supporting infrastructure including power generation and transmission; his views on whether their purchasing of renewable electricity may be restricting the availability of renewable electricity to residential consumers; and if he will consider regulating to ensure that their waste heat is used and not wasted. [50069/19]
• 2019-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the lack of permanent air quality monitoring in the north inner city areas of Dublin city; his plans to provide same; and if the presentation of data in a manner that is more accessible to the general public will be included. [50070/19]
• 2019-11-20
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce supports or grants for small businesses to install electric vehicle charging points on their premises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47877/19]
• 2019-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for the introduction of legislation for a digital safety commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42274/19]
• 2019-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage and estimated weight of recycled waste exported to the UK annually since 2016. [39190/19]
• 2019-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the increased cost of exporting recycled waste to the UK has been estimated in the event of a no-deal Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39191/19]
• 2019-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a verification system is in place to ensure that all recycled goods exported to the UK are processed in the UK rather than a third country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39192/19]
• 2019-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to appoint a hub controller installer for residents in County Monaghan that applied for the heating controls grant under the SEAI. [37840/19]
• 2019-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it is permissible for waste companies to decide not to service certain estates or areas in Dublin; his views on whether there is potential risk that customers will be left with just one available waste collection service; his further views on whether this risks the creation of monopoly positions in certain areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37850/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the EPA report on nitrogen dioxide levels in Dublin; the actions he plans to take on foot of same; his views as to whether monitoring stations should be put in place in some back gardens of houses backing onto the M50 in view of the fact that the report identifies the M50 as one of the most polluted areas with the highest concentrations of nitrogen dioxide occurring within 10 m of the roadside; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33771/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether Ireland is fully compliant with EU Directive 2002/49/EC relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33772/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected timeline for the introduction of grid feed-in tariffs for domestic solar energy systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33779/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce solar energy system incentives specifically for schools and other public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33780/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Transport

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the design manual for urban roads and streets is being reviewed; if so, the planned consultation to be undertaken with local authorities, development interests, environmental interests, road and street user organisations and the general public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33784/19]
• 2019-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Business

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if consideration has been given to reassessing fire safety regulations for domestic furniture in view of environmental and health concerns relating to flame retardants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30640/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the efforts being made to ensure that Travellers, those in rental accommodation and those in mortgage arrears, can access the better energy homes scheme for those on fuel allowance. [30400/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he is considering in order to provide provisions of additional and more secure funding streams for public service broadcasting and other local media here. [28481/19]
• 2019-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has commissioned an analysis on the sustainability of the use of biomass material in co-fired power stations. [28482/19]
• 2019-07-03
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action he plans to take to reduce the amount of plastic and other packaging waste that consumers are forced to take with them in supermarkets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28438/19]
• 2019-07-03
  PQ
  Asked Transport

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures is he considering to incentivise a move towards more environmentally friendly HGVs such as Euro 6 engines (details supplied); and if the grants and scrappage schemes are being considered. [28470/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for the opening of the support scheme for renewable heat to all elements including biogas and biomass; the strategic environmental assessment that has or will be carried out on the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18585/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans and timelines for making air quality data available to the public in an accessible manner as is the case with a network (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the EPA’s air quality data is difficult to navigate and has significant gaps in data availability between the ending of the historical data measuring periods and the 14 day recent timeline periods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13722/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the terms of reference for the report on just transition due in early 2019 (details supplied); and the date for the completion of the report. [13934/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 539 of 16 October 2018, the terms of reference for the report on just transition due in early 2019 as mentioned by an official at the Joint Committee on Climate Action meeting on 17 September 2018; and the date for the likely completion of the report. [11473/19]
• 2019-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the next steps following on from the 2017 schools energy efficiency pilot in terms of a wider schools energy retrofit programme, particularly regarding the timeline for the deep retrofit of further schools and the number of schools he plans to be deep retrofitted; if he has engaged with the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment regarding the possibility of introducing a feed-in tariff for micro-generated renewable energy and the benefits this would have for schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10914/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of all town lands in which a prospecting licence for minerals exploration has been granted or renewed between 2011 and February 2019; and the details of all town lands in which a prospecting licence is to be granted or renewed. [10547/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is a policy on importing fracked shale gas in view of the recent ban on fracking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10549/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the policy on building new fossil fuel infrastructure; if past support for LNG infrastructure will be reassessed in view of the recommendations of a recent report by an organisation (details supplied) and increasing climate court cases here, in Europe and internationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10550/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the public consultation processes in place for mining objections; if further mining will be permitted in areas where a community has expressed its opposition to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10551/19]
• 2019-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland is in breach of the EU emissions ceilings directive on emissions of NOx and the related World Health Organization, WHO, limits for clean air; and if so, his plans and timescale to address same. [9118/19]
• 2019-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to roll out fast charging infrastructure for electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9119/19]
• 2019-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the scholarship schemes operated by his Department; the criteria for the award; the amount of the award; the number of awardees for the dates for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9120/19]
• 2019-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff in his Department who work in communications, climate action, oil and gas exploration, regulation issues, environment and other issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9121/19]
• 2019-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when new air quality monitoring will be rolled out in Dublin city; the type of gasses, pollutants and so on that will be measured (details supplied); the number of stations that will be provided; if real time information will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9122/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the relationship between the national mitigation plan, the national energy and climate plan and the all-of-Government action plan on climate disruption. [8315/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a public information campaign encouraging motorists not to idle their engines at level crossings due to the additional environmental pollution and carbon emissions this creates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8317/19]
• 2019-02-06
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the assessment carried out before signing SI No. 4 of 2019 European Union (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Peat Extraction) Regulations 2019, of the impact of the regulations on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands in line with the national peatlands strategy. [5883/19]
• 2019-02-06
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands he anticipates over the lifetime of the national mitigation plan, the national energy and climate plan and the all-of-Government plan on climate disruption. [5884/19]
• 2019-02-06
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the data available on the marginal abatement costs of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands; and the volume of emission reductions possible at each cost level. [5885/19]
• 2019-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the policy in relation to the facilitation of new LNG facilities. [3263/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to roll out fast-charging infrastructure for electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2575/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if directions to public bodies under section 15(2) of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 have been issued by his Department or other Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2564/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the local authorities that have notified his Department under section 4(13)(a) or (b) of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 of their intention to adopt or their adoption of climate change mitigation measures; the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2565/19]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of electric vehicles for sale here are not included in the list for the electric vehicle home charger grant scheme; his plans to remedy the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54509/18]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of high speed broadband in the Glencullen area of County Dublin; the way in which he expects it to progress in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1779/19]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans in respect of offshore wind energy; the number of offshore wind farms that are planned; the planned locations of these wind farms; the projected cost of same; his further plans to increase the capacity in this area over the next decade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53164/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for thermal retrofitting of private rented accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53163/18]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if waste operators will be directed to install a clip on the lids of bins to prevent the bins being blown open during stormy weather and the escape of rubbish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52776/18]
• 2018-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 343 of 9 October 2018, if further testing of the population for the presence of environmental chemicals will be undertaken; the nature of these chemicals; if men will be included in the cohort; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51161/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households cutting turf on special areas of conservation, SACs, that have availed of a retrofit of their houses to be more energy efficient and to use renewable fuel; and the amount the agreed retrofits will cost. [46696/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has given consideration to the provision of funding for the trial roll-out of dual public light post e-car charge points in a number of management company operated residential estates (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46674/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the terms of reference of the interdepartmental working group on climate action in regard to wetlands; and if he will provide the minutes of meetings of that group. [46700/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Culture

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the meetings she has held with environmental organisations since taking office. [46686/18]
• 2018-10-23
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress that has been made on the roll-out of additional monitoring sites for air pollution (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43739/18]
• 2018-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the terms of reference for his Department's report on just transition due early in 2019 as mentioned by an official from his Department at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action on 17 September 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41913/18]
• 2018-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he plans to take to facilitate an end to the sale of combustion engine private cars by 2030. [41105/18]
• 2018-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he plans to meet the target of 45,000 deep retrofits per annum by 2021. [41104/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 1146 of 21 March 2017, the reason the timescale for public consultation in quarter 2 of 2017 was not met in regard to the strategic environmental assessment of the national bioenergy plan, which was drafted in 2014 and has remained in draft form since; the reason the timescale for public consultation in early 2018 which he set out in Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 13 December 2017 was not met; the reason the timescale for public consultation in summer 2018 which he set out in Parliamentary Question No. 1048 of 12 June 2018 was not met; and when the strategic environmental assessment of the draft national bioenergy plan will be put to public consultation. [38345/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has achieved an annual rate of energy-efficient renovation for Government buildings of 3% as required by EU Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency; his plans to extend this to schools, libraries and community facilities, municipal or other public buildings; if the national energy efficiency targets have been set for local or central Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38441/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the cost of achieving an annual rate of energy-efficient renovation for Government buildings of 6%, as guided by the principles of EU Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency, has been identified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38442/18]
• 2018-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons who have retrofitted their homes with heat pumps under the better energy homes programme since the opening of the programme; if the terms and conditions will be reviewed in view of take-up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37766/18]
• 2018-06-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the ESB is no longer rolling out a new charging infrastructure in the form of charging points for electric vehicles; the measures he is putting in place to remedy this; and the funding amounts and timelines for same. [27965/18]
• 2018-06-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the per capita waste management and enforcement staff numbers in the EPA and waste officers in local authorities here compared to the UK, Germany, Sweden and Belgium. [27962/18]
• 2018-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the possibility of mandating all petrol stations, supermarket car parks and public car parks to have electric vehicle charge points has been considered. [23967/18]
• 2018-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his target for the percentage of the energy derived from renewable energy by 2030; and the target percentage of renewable power he is suggesting for Europe as part of the new EU clean energy legislative package. [23966/18]
• 2018-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 22 February 2018, the status of the investigation into the compliance with environmental impact assessment, EIA, agriculture regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23414/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that have been taken to explore new crop production techniques such as paludiculture by his Department since responsibility for this action under the national peatlands strategy was allocated to it and to the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. [16675/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland will support the findings and recommendations of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee, which found that both Germany and the UK were in breach of the public participation requirements of the Convention in respect of the transboundary consultations provided for in the decision to approve the development consent for the nuclear power project in the UK, Hinkley Point C (details supplied); if attempts by the UK, the EU, other parties to the Convention and the nuclear lobby to undermine and weaken these findings of non-compliance which may occur at the September 2018 meeting of the parties to the Convention will be resisted; if not, the basis for the State's decision; the person or body that will represent Ireland at the upcoming Aarhus meeting in Montenegro from 11 to 14 September 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16671/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Culture

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the assessment, priority ranking, indicative costs, duration and exact scope of research required, which was to be developed by her Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, in respect of eight areas of peatland research to be pursued under the national peatlands strategy. [16670/18]
• 2018-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Culture

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress that has been made since the review of archaeological survey and mitigation policy 2013 relating to Bord na Móna peatlands since 1990 in integrating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental datasets on site specific and inter-regional scales which is required to make a determination of the contribution this work can make to palaeohydrology, climate change and human activity. [12959/18]
• 2018-02-27
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the changes in greenhouse gas emissions from Ireland that are predicted to result from the implementation of the infrastructure elements included in the national planning framework. [9488/18]
• 2018-02-27
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the availability of recycling facilities for residents of apartment blocks; the recycling rates among these residents; and the action he plans to take to improve the levels of recycling in such dwellings. [10061/18]
• 2018-02-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the strategic environment assessment statement for the national planning framework will be published; and the reason it was not ready for publication with the framework. [9487/18]
• 2018-02-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to concerns that seaweed harvesting rights may be granted to international undertakings potentially threatening the livelihood of indigenous companies; the measures he is putting in place to protect the long term health of seaweed stocks, the potential for local employment and the sustainability of the marine environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10066/18]
• 2018-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an environmental impact assessment or appropriate assessment, for example, a Natura impact assessment, was conducted at a site (details supplied); and if the forestry service granted a tree-felling licence, or an exemption, for the removal of trees. [9107/18]
• 2018-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of contributions made by industry, including an organisation (details supplied) to the cost of the €20 million seismic survey conducted in June 2013 by the petroleum affairs division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7861/18]
• 2018-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost per tonne of greenhouse gas emissions abated by means of the biofuels obligations scheme; the source of this estimate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2360/18]
• 2018-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the sustainability standards applied to biofuels used here; his plans to improve these standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2364/18]
• 2018-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of petrol fuelled vehicles here capable of using E10 fuel without difficulties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2365/18]
• 2018-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of diesel fuelled vehicles here capable of using B7 fuel without difficulties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2366/18]
• 2018-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the contribution electrified rail is expected to make to Ireland's 2020 RES-T target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2367/18]
• 2018-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the contribution electrified buses are expected to make to Ireland's 2020 RES-T target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2368/18]
• 2018-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the contribution electrified taxis are expected to make to Ireland's 2020 RES-T target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2369/18]
• 2018-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the contribution electrified private motor vehicles are expected to make to Ireland's 2020 RES-T target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2370/18]
• 2017-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of environmental impact assessments, EIAs, he has commissioned for aquaculture licences in 2014, 2015 and 2016; the water bodies to which these EIAs applied; if this information publicly available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50864/17]
• 2017-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to implement legislative measures compelling private waste collectors to provide more detailed guidance to their domestic customers regarding the types of plastics or other material that can or cannot be put in the green bin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50746/17]
• 2017-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the energy upgrade work funded by his Department over the past two years, by county (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50751/17]
• 2017-11-21
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his officials have had meetings or discussions with executives from a company (details supplied) regarding the proposed data centre in Athenry, specifically as regards the provision of a 100% renewable energy supply for the facility. [49096/17]
• 2017-11-21
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his Department has had discussions with the RTÉ authority or other Government Departments regarding the future of the symphony and concert orchestras currently managed by RTÉ. [49097/17]
• 2017-10-17
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current and planned measures his Department is undertaking to allow private persons and small-scale businesses to sell electricity they have generated to the national grid. [43963/17]
• 2017-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected matters that the national dialogue on climate change will include. [41896/17]
• 2017-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has given consideration to the application by Bord na Móna to purchase a wood pellet factory in Georgia; and the way in which the Government would reach a decision on such an investment. [41897/17]
• 2017-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the sectoral adaptation plans adopted in accordance with the national climate change adaptation framework since the framework was published in 2012; and the locations in which the sectoral plans can be accessed. [41768/17]
• 2017-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to put in place an electric vehicle charging point in Leinster House. [41781/17]
• 2017-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 1034 of 13 July 2017, if there is a policy on the emissions of greenhouse gases from development sites on peatlands, including degraded peatlands, to which planning authorities should have regard when assessing proposals for renewable energy or other developments. [40238/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he has taken to bring to the European Council the proposal that Ireland, as a result of anticipated failure to meet the 2020 greenhouse gas emissions target for the non-traded sector, should have a higher target in subsequent years than it would if the target was met; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this will make the State a problem country for European climate policy. [35068/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 1034 of 13 July 2017, if there is a Government policy relating to the emissions of greenhouse gases from development sites on peatlands, including degraded peatlands to which planning authorities should have regard in assessing proposals for renewable energy or other developments. [36670/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of residents excluded from having brown bins in each local area authority under Regulation 3(3)(b) of S.I. No. 191/2015; if his Department has plans to amend this statutory provision to ensure all residents have access to brown bins; and if not, if his Department have plans to provide alternative composting options to these residents. [34818/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, in view of the current negotiations in Brussels on the EU waste directives, the Government supports the following measures: a 65% target for recycling of municipal solid waste by 2030 binding minimum requirements on extended producer responsibility including full cost coverage and modulated fees, separate targets for preparation for reuse of municipal solid waste, waste prevention targets, and a packaging reuse target of 10% by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34821/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the recent meeting of the parties to the Espoo Convention including the position Ireland took on the findings of the implementation committee of the convention on the proposed new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset. [34822/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position Ireland took at the recent meeting of the parties to the Espoo Convention on the environmental impact assessment of proposals to extend the lifetimes of nuclear plants currently reaching the end of their originally envisaged periods of operation. [34823/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the priorities for the forthcoming meeting of the parties to the Aarhus Convention. [34824/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the provisions in place and the further provisions anticipated regarding wind energy and solar energy developments to ensure that where such developments are sited on peatlands, including degraded peatlands, they form part of a strategy to minimise total carbon emissions from the relevant peatlands, noting that in the absence of action to ensure this is done, the degraded peatlands could emit more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than the renewable energy development would save. [34826/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to bring to the European Council the proposal that Ireland should, as a result of our anticipated failure to meet our 2020 greenhouse gas emissions target for the non-traded sector, have a higher target in subsequent years than we would have if we meet our target; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this is placing Ireland as a problem country for European climate policy; and the steps he will take to meet our climate targets (details supplied). [34827/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the detail of the submission made by his Department to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding the mid-term capital review to ensure that the review results in a capital investment programme consistent with Ireland's EU level targets for 2020, proposed targets for 2030, the obligations of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 201,5 including the national transition objective and the Paris Agreement. [34828/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position Ireland is taking on the Commission's proposal that accounting for wetland management be optional for the 2030 climate target, the analysis that has been taken to inform that position and if it is consistent with the commitments to peatland rewetting and restoration in the national peatlands strategy. [34829/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland will support the findings and recommendations of the Aarhus Convention compliance committee (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34834/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when consultation on the draft legislative provisions for his departmental remit to transpose directive 2014/52/EU (details supplied) will be provided for; the timeframe for when such provisions are expected to be initiated; the basis on which these provisions will be introduced; if provisions related to the 2014/52/EU have already been made by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34836/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 1779 of 20 June 2017 the number of former TDs that applied for board positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34855/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will produce guidelines for the assessment of the climate impact of renewable energy developments on peatlands, including degraded peatlands, as requested by Friends of the Irish Environment. [34825/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when consultation on the draft legislative provisions for his Department to transpose Directive 2014/52/EU introducing substantial amendments to the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive 2011/92/EU will be provided; the timeframe for such provisions to be initiated (details supplied); the basis on which these provisions will be introduced; if provisions related to the 2014/52/EU have already been made by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34835/17]
• 2017-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the national climate dialogue will commence; the person he wishes to chair the advisory group; the expected timeframe for the completion of its work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29894/17]
• 2017-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has submitted a national low carbon transition and mitigation plan to the Government for approval; and when the Government will approve the plan. [29998/17]
• 2017-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if funding can be made available through the environment fund as had previously been done or through other funding sources to local authorities to help clean up graffiti in their area. [28059/17]
• 2017-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if employees of his Department, including Met Éireann employees, have attended the meetings of a group (details supplied); and if so, if they have reported back to his Department on the proceedings of the meetings of the group. [28063/17]
• 2017-06-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if in establishing a new regulatory regime for large scale peat extraction he will ensure that this new regime is consistent with the ruling of the European Court of Justice in Commission v. Ireland C 215/06 particularly in view of the impermissibility of granting retrospective consent for a development requiring an environmental impact assessment. [26324/17]
• 2017-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the changes to the planning status of large-scale peat extraction will be designed to ensure that there is no effective retrospective legalisation of extraction undertaken without environmental impact assessment. [24059/17]
• 2017-05-18
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has been consulted by the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government on proposed changes to the planning status of large-scale community extraction; and if he has provided his views in response regarding the impact such changes could have on the carbon sequestration and storage functions of peatlands. [23700/17]
• 2017-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the economic analysis which underpins the climate targets he has set out. [21897/17]
• 2017-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which his Department is planning for the possibility of up to €5.5 billion in fines in 2030 if the State does not meet its climate targets (details supplied); the way in which his Department has been liaising with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to same, particularly with reference to the national mitigation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18968/17]
• 2017-04-13
  PQ
  Asked Public

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way the fiscal and policy context section of the capital development plan incorporates environmental sustainability in addition to fiscal sustainability as an underlying policy goal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19114/17]
• 2017-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he is taking to ensure, in the event of a nuclear accident relating to the generation and storage of nuclear power in the UK, the safety of the public in view of the proposed exit of the UK from the EURATOM Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13943/17]
• 2017-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Transport

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps Fáilte Ireland is taking to ensure that any tourism development project in the Dublin mountain area is fully compliant with all relevant planning and state aid rules and is also fully compliant with the relevant Irish and EU law in regard to environmental impact assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13518/17]
• 2016-12-06
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has had any discussions with the RTE board or management about cuts in children's programmes and the outsourcing of same. [38623/16]
• 2016-12-06
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he envisages a long-term future for the burning of biomass in electric power generation. [38624/16]
• 2016-10-11
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the national electric car network; the number of fast charge points there are here; the number currently not functioning; the approximate average time for repair for a given charge point; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29580/16]
• 2016-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the area, Barnacullia, Sandyford, County Dublin, is in the schedule for the roll-out of rural broadband and when it is due to be completed. [27680/16]
• 2016-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an address (details supplied) is in the schedule for the roll-out of rural broadband; and if so, when it is due to be completed. [27025/16]
• 2016-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an address (details supplied) is in the schedule for the roll-out of rural broadband, and if so, when it is due to be completed. [27027/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Arts

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the way in which she plans to create an environment where the cultural sector can be supported through multiannual budgeting to allow a more strategic and sustainable focus, particularly among the State's cultural institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24892/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Arts

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will consider creating an enabling environment for digitisation of archives and records across all levels in the State, including cultural institutions, Government bodies, educational institutions and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24893/16]
• 2016-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Arts

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht why she is proposing to de-designate 46 raised bog natural heritage areas, given the importance of protecting and restoring peatlands, including raised bogs in protecting biodiversity, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and preventing and mitigating flooding in a highly cost-effective fashion, as demonstrated by the Environmental Protection Agency funded Bogland project, leading to large-scale peatland restoration projects in other countries in the European Union and further afield. [20157/16]
• 2016-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of appointments he has made to State boards since the move to the Public Appointments Service two years ago to date; the names of those appointed and the relevant position on each board; the names of those persons on the shortlist; the date when the shortlist was provided to him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20065/16]
• 2016-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a scheme in relation to recycling facilities for tin, aluminium, which pays the person based on the quantity recycled as an incentive to recycle said materials; if he is aware of issues raised on a television programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19682/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if new apartment minimum sizes, specified in a publication by his Department entitled 'Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments - Guidelines for Planning Authorities', are mandatory for local authorities and if they supersede local minimum apartment sizes specified in local development plans (details supplied). [9379/16]