Eoin Ó Broin

Sinn Féin · Dublin Mid-West

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• 2026-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if a data centre powered by gas powered generators offsite connected via a private wire would be considered an 'islanded data' centre; and if it would be consistent with the Government statement on the Role of Data Centres in Ireland’s Enterprise Strategy position that islanded data centres 'would not be in line with national policy'. [23364/26]
• 2026-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of islanded data centres contracted to connect to the gas network; the number connected to the gas network of those contracted; the number awaiting connection to the gas network of those contracted; the number of formal enquiries that have been received but which are not contracted, for each category; the amount of capacity involved; and to confirm it remains the case that connecting islanded data centres would not be in line with government policy, in tabular form. [21181/26]
• 2026-03-18
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment his plans to protect consumers from immediate increases in the price of oil by companies using current world events as an excuse to increase their prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18551/26]
• 2026-03-18
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the impact on the cost of electricity, with growing demand for electricity from data centres has been brought to his attention or that of his officials. [19575/26]
• 2026-03-18
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of oil boilers and gas boilers installed in the warmer homes scheme and warmth and wellbeing scheme for 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [19911/26]
• 2026-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the United Nations special rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment sought to visit a location (details supplied), but was refused access by the company; if his Department will engage with the company, or the special rapporteur regarding this refusal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16613/26]
• 2026-02-27
  LOBBY
  An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland Environment

  • Scheduling of consultation on the scale of fees under s.294 of the Planning and Development Act 2024 issues with the consultation documentation and webpage on the scale of fees under s.294 of the Planning and Development Act 2024 Re Gov announcements on various legislative changes impacting on JR rules and statistics on JR
• 2026-02-10
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will provide a breakdown of national gas demand, by sector included from data centres for the years 2023 to 2025; if he will provide data on the changes in demand for each sector over the past two years; and his views on the implications of this demand for Ireland’s energy and climate goals. [9520/26]
• 2026-02-10
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the new individual energy upgrade grant for windows and doors is available to households who have ordered windows and doors for delivery in March 2026. [9788/26]
• 2026-02-10
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if a retrospective element is available under the new individual energy upgrade grant for windows and doors for households who were advised by the SEAI that standalone grants were not available for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9789/26]
• 2026-01-20
  LOBBY
  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA Energy and Natural Resources

  • Solar
• 2026-01-16
  LOBBY
  ENERGY CLOUD Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG) Energy and Natural Resources

  • Written Submission and Presentation to Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
• 2026-01-13
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he is aware of increased charges for household waste services issued by a provider (details supplied); if he is aware the increase has been attributed in part to new pension costs; if cost increases can be issued to customers for this reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1561/26]
• 2026-01-08
  LOBBY
  Irish Green Building Council Housing

  • On behalf of members to inform on the work of Vacant to Vibrant Building Alliance.
• 2025-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his attention has been drawn to the significant amount of grid connection capacity held by data centres which has not been used. [73595/25]
• 2025-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he was made aware of the volume of grid connection capacity sought by data centres that have planning permission but no grid connection. [73596/25]
• 2025-12-16
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide an update on the timeline for publishing the heads of bill for the private wires legislation. [71754/25]
• 2025-12-16
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether he will seek a waiver for pre legislative scrutiny of the private wires legislation. [71758/25]
• 2025-12-16
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether he has received reports from electricity network operators of outages from fluctuations in frequencies in the grid related to data centres causing issues; and the measures adopted to mitigate their effects. [71756/25]
• 2025-12-16
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of islanded data centres contracted to connect to the gas network; the number connected to the gas network of those contracted; the number awaiting connection to the gas network of those contracted; the number of formal enquiries that have been received but which are not contracted; and, for each category, the amount of capacity involved, in tabular form. [71755/25]
• 2025-12-11
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the dates on which his Department received correspondence from, or met with, a company (details supplied) or its representatives since March 2025; and the subject of any such correspondence and/or meeting, in tabular form. [71205/25]
• 2025-12-10
  VOTE
  Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2021

  A bill to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as An Coimisiún Náisiúnta um Thrasdul Cóir or, in the English language, the National Just Transition Commission to oversee the bringing together of workers, communities, employers and government in social dialogue to drive the plans, policies and investments needed for a fair transformation to a low-carbon economy; to require the preparation, by certain prescribed bodies, of just transition plans; to provide for the conferral of other functions on the said body; to amend the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 (as amended by the 2021 Act); and to provide for related matters.

  • ✓ voted to progress the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion failed · 64–72
• 2025-12-09
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the dates on which his Department received market monitoring data from the CRU on the number of customers in arrears on their energy bills over the past six months, in tabular form. [69228/25]
• 2025-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 8 July 2025, when he will bring a memorandum to Government to formally withdraw Ireland from the Energy Charter Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68877/25]
• 2025-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the options for assistance with meeting high energy and heating bills for individuals and families; if it is intended to provide supports given the difficulty for households in meeting these costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68959/25]
• 2025-12-03
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the dates on which he or his Department officials met with electricity suppliers or their representatives. [68352/25]
• 2025-11-25
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of domestic electricity customers in arrears and the average value of the arrears; the number of commercial electricity customers in arrears; the number of domestic gas customers in arrears and the average value of the arrears; the number of commercial gas customers in arrears; the number of domestic electricity customers in arrears for more than 90-days; the number of domestic gas customers in arrears for more than 90-days; the number of domestic electricity disconnections; the number of domestic gas disconnections; for the months available from July 2025 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [65301/25]
• 2025-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the breakdown, by local authority of the number of domestic solar panel installations, by county for 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [58061/25]
• 2025-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he or any bodies under his aegis have carried out a socio-economic impact analysis of the grants for solar panel to private residences. [58062/25]
• 2025-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether his attention has been brought to Britain's National Audit Office report about failures of insulation schemes with the quality of installations of external and internal wall insulation and suspected fraud on the energy company obligation; and whether similar concerns have been raised about insulation schemes here. [59667/25]
• 2025-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment his plans with respect to the transposition of Article 18 of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, 2024 revision; and the way in which he intends to meet the objectives of a one-stop-shop for physical renovation as set out in the article. [57393/25]
• 2025-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether his Department's allocation in Budget 2026 makes provision for the estimated €220m in national contributions to match the €663m in funding under the EU Social Climate Fund which can be drawn down from 2026; which vote this allocation will fall under; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56564/25]
• 2025-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the actions he is taking to investigate the allegation of price gouging levelled by the Taoiseach against energy suppliers during Leaders' Questions on 14 October and in light of evidence of price gouging highlighted by the International Energy Agency report (details supplied). [57356/25]
• 2025-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he plans to match fund for the full allocation of the Social Climate Fund. [57357/25]
• 2025-10-14
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the status of the progress made towards transposing the provisions of the revised Energy Efficiency Directive by the 11 October 2025 deadline. [54920/25]
• 2025-10-14
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of domestic electricity and gas customers in arrears (details supplied); the average value of the arrears, using the information provided to his Department by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, in tabular form. [55261/25]
• 2025-09-21
  LOBBY
  An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland 2 returns Environment

  • An Bord Pleanála Strategic Plan and Customer Action Plan consultation
  • Planning and Development Bill 2025
• 2025-09-19
  LOBBY
  Friends of the Earth Energy and Natural Resources

  • Advocacy on Data Centre Moratorium Motion in South Dublin County Council
• 2025-09-19
  LOBBY
  Irish Wildbird Conservancy Environment

  • Important Bird Areas for Seabirds in Ireland
• 2025-09-19
  LOBBY
  Community Law & Mediation Environment

  • Sent the Centre for Environmental Justice's Pre Budget Submission.
• 2025-09-17
  LOBBY
  Irish Green Building Council Environment

  • On behalf of members to make a pre-budget submission
• 2025-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of domestic electricity customers in arrears and the average value of the arrears; the number of commercial electricity customers in arrears; the number of domestic gas customers in arrears and the average value of the arrears; the number of commercial gas customers in arrears; the number of domestic electricity customers in arrears for more than 90-days; the number of domestic gas customers in arrears for more than 90-days; the number of domestic electricity disconnections; the number of domestic gas disconnections; the number of domestic electricity customer switches; and the number of non-domestic electricity customer switches for the months of June and July 2025, using the information provided to his Department's Retail Energy Policy and Regulation Division in the monthly market update by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, in tabular form. [48939/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of domestic electricity customers in arrears and the average value of the arrears; the number of commercial electricity customers in arrears; the number of domestic gas customers in arrears and the average value of the arrears; the number of commercial gas customers in arrears; the number of domestic electricity customers in arrears for more than 90 days; the number of domestic gas customers in arrears for more than 90 days; the number of domestic electricity disconnections; the number of domestic gas disconnections; the number of domestic electricity customer switches; and the number of non-domestic electricity customer switches for the months of June and July 2025, using the information provided to his Department's Retail Energy Policy and Regulation Division in the monthly market update by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, in tabular form. [46727/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if a data centre is considered an "islanded" data centre, if it is powered by gas powered generators off-site connected via a private wire, as was suggested in recent media reports (details supplied). [46729/25]
• 2025-09-01
  LOBBY
  Stop Climate Chaos coalition Environment

  • Climate Action Plans and Carbon Budgets
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the timeline for the consultation for the social climate plan. [43744/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if a data centre powered by gas powered generators offsite connected via a private wire as was suggested in recent media reports (details supplied) would be considered an 'islanded data' centre, and would be consistent with the Government statement on the Role of Data Centres in Ireland’s Enterprise Strategy position that islanded data centres 'would not be in line with national policy'. [44105/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of islanded data centres contracted to connect to the gas network; the number connected to the gas network of those contracted; the number awaiting connection to the gas network of those contracted; the number of formal enquiries that have been received but which are not contracted; and, for each category, the amount of capacity involved, in tabular form. [44106/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide an update on efforts to transpose the provisions of Article 12 of the Energy Efficiency Directive relating to data centres, the deadline for which elapsed in June 2025. [44107/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment his response to the Commission for Regulation of Utilities report that as of April 2025, there are more people in arrears on energy bills than at an time since the invasion of Ukraine; and given the objective need for an energy credit greater than at any point previously, if he will consider a fifth round of energy credits. [44232/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of domestic electricity customers in arrears; the number of commercial electricity customers in arrears; the number of domestic gas customers in arrears; the number of commercial gas customers in arrears for the months of May and June 2025, using the information provided to his Department's Retail Energy Policy and Regulation Division in the monthly market update by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, in tabular form. [44233/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to state whether a strategic environmental assessment and-or screening for a strategic environmental assessment and-or an appropriate assessment was carried on the planning design standards for apartments guidelines for planning authorities, 2025, prior to the publication of the guidelines. [41487/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to state whether a strategic environmental assessment and-or screening for a strategic environmental assessment and-or an appropriate assessment was carried out on Seanad amendment No. 24 to the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025, amending Part III of the Act of 2000, to provide for modification of permission for residential development by inserting a new section 44B into the principal Act, and related amendments to the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2024. [41488/25]
• 2025-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide the dates on which the Energy Poverty Steering Group which was established under the Energy Poverty Action Plan from 2022 has met, in tabular form. [38395/25]
• 2025-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment when the annual report on the Energy Poverty Action Plan for 2024 will be submitted to Government and published. [38396/25]
• 2025-07-08
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment when Ireland plans to formally leave the Energy Charter Treaty, particularly in light of the EU exit and Inter Se Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37725/25]
• 2025-07-08
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the reasons for the failure to meet the deadline for completing the Climate Action Plan 2024, sub action EL/24/22, to implement enhanced emissions reporting framework for electricity emissions for large energy users, by the end of 2024. [37143/25]
• 2025-07-08
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to outline, in respect of greenhouse gas emissions from data centres, the sectoral emissions ceiling those emissions are counted towards under the sectoral emissions ceilings set by the Government in July 2022. [37839/25]
• 2025-06-25
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to provide the terms of reference of the procurement of what the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment recently referred to as an "in-depth research and analysis to provide a detailed view of the economic and societal benefits arising from data centres in Ireland"; and to outline which company has been chosen, and at what cost. [34654/25]
• 2025-06-24
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether he plans to establish the Just Transition Commission on a statutory footing. [34358/25]
• 2025-06-18
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for a list of the names on the senior officials group examining the data centres transition pathway analysis. [33084/25]
• 2025-06-18
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide an update on efforts to transpose the provisions of Article 12 of the Energy Efficiency Directive relating to data centres. [33086/25]
• 2025-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the position which Ireland will take on the upcoming renewal of the memorandum of understanding between the European Union, Egypt and Israel on natural gas, specifically due to the lack of a territorial clause explicitly excluding the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31336/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to outline any measures he is considering to maintain the level of imports of electricity from Britain following any future changes in the price of electricty between the two markets. [29479/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 4 March 2025, if he is satisfied that the EPA "Ireland's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections 2024" report and the SEAI "Interim National Energy Balance 2024" report included demand from direct demand from data centres for natural gas which were identified as a "blind spot" by the author of a report published on 10 December 2024 (details supplied). [29845/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Climate

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his officials have conducted a standalone cost benefit analysis of the risks and opportunities arising from high volumes of the State's electricity being consumed by data centres including but not limited to its negative impact on housing delivery targets and climate targets weighed against potential benefits such as modest levels of employment in data centres and increased corporate tax revenue. [29987/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline plans for maintaining emissions in the event of lower electricity imports arising from linking the British and European Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms. [27541/25]
• 2025-05-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline the number of islanded data centres contracted to connect to the gas network; the number connected to the gas network of those contracted; the number awaiting connection to the gas network of those contracted; and the number of formal enquiries that have been received but which are not contracted, for each category, and the amount of capacity involved, in tabular form. [26236/25]
• 2025-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if an analysis has been conducted of the volume of emissions reductions associated with each euro spent by the Climate Action Fund. [25512/25]
• 2025-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the carbon emissions associated with all official air travel in tonnes; the value of these emissions; the amounts paid to the climate action fund by each Department, agency and body required to do so under the procedures for offsetting the emissions associated with official air travel for 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25513/25]
• 2025-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the carbon emissions associated with all official air travel in tonnes; the value of these emissions; the amounts paid to the Climate Action Fund by each Department, agency and body required to do so under the procedures for offsetting the emissions associated with official air travel for 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19217/25]
• 2025-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the new climate action plan will include a commitment to provide additional supports for the retrofitting of approved housing body social housing. [19878/25]
• 2025-04-01
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the timeline for the consultation for the social climate plan which the Government needs to submit to the European Commission by June 2025.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15174/25]
• 2025-04-01
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide an update on which information about data centres will be made publicly available pursuant to Article 12(1) of the recast Energy Efficiency Directive, and which information he will allow the data centres to keep concealed as commercially sensitive. [15776/25]
• 2025-03-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide an update on the Gas Network Ireland plans to split the station at Brighouse Bay.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14872/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the State has entered into arbitration with a company (details supplied), or any other companies under the dispute resolution mechanism within the Energy Charter Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11614/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the basis for the €300 million floating LNG terminal; if the cost includes the cost of constructing a jetty, pipelines, and connection to the grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12145/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications who hosted and who attended the recent war room exercise reported as ‘Exercise Cathal’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12590/25]
• 2025-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has engaged with stakeholders in relation to the situation whereby grid constraints from the excessive data centre demand are negatively impacting the connection of housing to the electricity network. [10348/25]
• 2025-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide an update on EU obligations for establishing separate textile waste collection and establish an extended producer responsibility scheme. [10346/25]
• 2025-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications for an update on progress in fulfilling the obligations in article 12 of the Energy Efficiency Directive 2023/1791 regarding a database for data centres. [10347/25]
• 2025-03-04
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will respond to the report published on 10 December 2024 (details supplied) which found "a significant blind spot in Ireland’s climate action planning", resulting from a failure to include direct demand for natural gas from connections to data centres; the engagement he has had with the Environmental Protection Agency and Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland on the matter; and the actions he proposes to address what the researcher termed the blind spot; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9311/25]
• 2025-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby grid constraints from the excessive data centre demand are negatively impacting the connection of housing to the electricity network. [8350/25]
• 2025-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he plans to bring forward legislation to ban connections of islanded data centres to the gas grid. [8352/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications in light of the substantial pressure that data centres are placing on grid systems, and given that they are the largest driver of energy demand in the State, if he is considering any plans to direct the Regulator to increase the network charge of large energy users in order to finance repairs and ensure households do not bear the brunt of costs. [7129/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications how much data centre demand is currently contracted to connect to the electricity networks operated by ESB Networks and Eirgrid above what is already connected. [8104/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the breakdown, by county of the details for each Mandatory Demand Curtailment which occurred to date in 2025 as instructed by Eirgrid, in tabular form. [8106/25]
• 2025-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the divisions, units or other Departmental structures that have been added to or removed from the brief of the Minister since the change of Government. [6664/25]
• 2025-02-18
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will consider establishing a rebalancing subvention, modelled on the large energy user rebalancing subvention introduced in 2009, with the purpose of funding repair and upgrade of the grid in the wake of storm Éowyn, by collecting a greater portion of network charges from large energy users and less from household considering households subsided €600 million of large energy users' portion of the upgrades over the course of the original rebalancing subvention; and his views on the feasibility and potential benefits of such a rebalancing measure. [6351/25]
• 2025-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if Ireland has formally withdrawn from the Energy Charter Treaty in line with the individual withdrawals undertaken by other EU Member States alongside the EU's withdrawal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5081/25]
• 2025-02-11
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications for a progress update on the development of the social climate plan. [4562/25]
• 2025-01-20
  LOBBY
  Environmental Pillar Environment

  • Environmental Pillar Election General Manifesto 2025
• 2025-01-20
  LOBBY
  An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland 6 returns Environment

  • Planning and Development Bill 2023
  • Planning and Development Bill 2023
  • Planning and Development Bill 2023
  • Planning and Development Bill 2023
  • Emailed a copy of our manifesto, outlining our priority areas which we requested be included in their Party Manifesto
  • Planning and Development Bill 2023
• 2025-01-15
  LOBBY
  AgTech Ireland Agriculture

  • General Election Manifesto - Understanding the transformative impact of agtech on Irish agriculture
• 2025-01-14
  LOBBY
  Irish Wildbird Conservancy Environment

  • General Election 2024
• 2025-01-08
  LOBBY
  Irish Green Building Council Environment

  • Invitation to speak at IGBC's General Election Hustings event
• 2024-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will consider establishing a household and SME rebalancing subvention, modelled on the large energy user rebalancing subvention introduced in 2009, with the purpose of subsidizing the network costs of households and small and medium enterprises, by collecting a greater portion of network charges from large energy users; and his views on the feasibility and potential benefits of such a rebalancing measure. [45686/24]
• 2024-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of national gas demand, by sector (details supplied); if he will provide data on the changes in demand for each sector over the past two years; and his views on the implications of this demand for Ireland’s energy and climate goals. [45427/24]
• 2024-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of the community renewable energy projects that have been energised and are exporting electricity to the grid; the volume of electricity these projects have exported; the number of community renewable energy projects that have begun construction, by projects that are 100% community-owned versus those that are not 100% community-owned; and his views on the progress of community renewable energy initiatives. [45428/24]
• 2024-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of community renewable energy projects that have received funding from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland; the breakdown of each project and the amount of funding it has received, in tabular form; and his views on the Government’s support for community-led renewable energy initiatives. [45429/24]
• 2024-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the number of heat pumps installed in the warmer homes scheme and warmth and well-being scheme for 2023 and to the end of October 2024, in tabular form. [45449/24]
• 2024-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the number of oil and gas boilers installed in the warmer homes scheme and warmth and well-being scheme for 2023 and to the end of October 2024, in tabular form. [45450/24]
• 2024-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the carbon emissions associated with all official air travel in tonnes; the value of these emissions; the amounts paid to the climate action fund by each Department, agency and body required to do so under the procedures for offsetting the emissions associated with official air travel for 2023 and up to the end of October 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45451/24]
• 2024-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline the number of islanded data centres that are already connected to the gas grid; those that contracted to connect; those that are seeking contract to connect; and for each category, the amount of capacity involved, in tabular form. [45452/24]
• 2024-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there are plans to establish a retrofit scheme specifically targeted at households reliant on solid fuel heating, in line with recommendations from the Climate Change Advisory Council and the Environmental Protection Agency; if any analysis or advice has been sought in designing such a scheme; if not, to outline the reasons for the absence of such analysis or advice; how this initiative would contribute to emissions reduction and air quality improvement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45453/24]
• 2024-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to clarify the statutory basis on which the just transition commission is established; and to outline the staffing and resources that have been assigned to it. [45454/24]
• 2024-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the introduction of a tax on private jet travel, in light of the environmental impact and disproportionate carbon emissions associated with private aviation; the recent assessments of such a tax and its potential effectiveness in reducing emissions; and his views on the measures being considered to address the environmental impact of luxury travel. [45426/24]
• 2024-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications for an update on progress in fulfilling the obligations in Article 12 of the Energy Efficiency Directive 2023/1791; if the deadline of 15 May 2024 was met; and if not, the reason therefor. [40047/24]
• 2024-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the measures being taken to ensure the uptake of household bio-waste collection in apartment buildings; and if he has engaged with waste service providers on this issue. [26577/24]
• 2024-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans to support microgeneration in apartment buildings. [26578/24]
• 2024-04-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the carbon emissions associated with all official air travel in tonnes; the value of these emissions; the amounts paid to the climate action fund by each Department, agency and body required to do so under the procedures for offsetting the emissions associated with official air travel for 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19423/24]
• 2024-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the amount of aviation fuel sold at each Irish airport for international aviation for each year from 2019 to 2023, in tabular form. [9999/24]
• 2024-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the amount of aviation fuel sold at each Irish airport for domestic aviation for each year from 2019 to 2023, in tabular form. [10000/24]
• 2024-02-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the officials associated with the Climate Change Advisory Council who are considered designated public officials under the Regulation of Lobbying and Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) (Amendment) Act 2023. [8711/24]
• 2024-02-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if an analysis has been conducted of the volume of emissions reductions associated with each euro spent by the climate action fund. [8819/24]
• 2024-02-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the anticipated emissions from domestic aviation per year from 2022 to 2030 and the projected reductions with existing measures and with additional measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7470/24]
• 2024-02-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline the number of islanded data centres that are already connected to the gas grid; those that contracted to connect; those that are seeking contract to connect; and for each category, the amount of capacity involved, in tabular form. [7671/24]
• 2024-02-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications how much jet kerosene was imported into Ireland annually from 2010 to 2023. [7810/24]
• 2024-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the progress of local authorities' climate action plans; to outline, in tabular form, each local authority that has completed public consultation; and the local authorities that are currently completing public consultation and those that are yet to begin public consultation. [4428/24]
• 2024-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 138 of 18 January 2024, to outline whether the two schemes that have received €40,000 each in grant funding are 100% community owned or 51% community owned, in tabular form. [4508/24]
• 2024-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide an update on the provision of consent for an increase to the pensions of retired ESB workers; if a timeframe is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3714/24]
• 2024-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications what actions he has taken to work with like-minded European States to promote and support changes to European energy laws, in particular the revision of the European Union's Gas Directive and Gas Regulation in order to allow the importation of fracked gas to be restricted since the publication of the Policy Statement on the Importation of Fracked Gas. [3115/24]
• 2024-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide details of the contracts that have been awarded by the SEAI to a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2018 to 2024, in tabular form and for each contract to detail the service provided and the total value of the contract. [2226/24]
• 2024-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the number of 100% community-owned renewable energy projects and number of 51% community-owned renewable energy projects from RESS 1 that have received the enabling grant. [2252/24]
• 2024-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Taoiseach whether the Central Statistics Office will consider ceasing the use of 'world population' as an environmental indicator, as used in its graphic posted to the CSO's social media channels (details supplied) in light of the evidence of very highly unequal resource distribution including from reports by an organisation (details supplied) which show the richest 1% of the world's population has the same emissions as the poorest 50%. [56963/23]
• 2023-11-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications how much renewable electricity was used here in the years 2019 to 2022 expressed in terra watt hours, in tabular form. [52913/23]
• 2023-11-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of the models of electric vehicles with a full price of more than €60,000 that are on the SEAI's registers to qualify for support through tax incentive schemes; and for each model, to provide the full price of the vehicle, in tabular form. [51594/23]
• 2023-11-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the final electricity demand from business, domestic sectors from 2019 to date in 2023, in tabular form. [51626/23]
• 2023-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of islanded data centres that are already connected to the gas grid, those that contracted to connect, and those that are seeking contract to connect; and for each category to outline the amount of capacity involved, in tabular form. [51239/23]
• 2023-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will respond to the recommendation of the Climate Change Advisory Council that the Government should take immediate action to amend the Gas Act 1976 as amended (details supplied). [51240/23]
• 2023-11-16
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of electric vehicles that received support though the SEAI accelerated capital allowance. [50397/23]
• 2023-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will report on the need for the Government to carry out an assessment of the existing barriers and potential of development of renewable energy communities under Article 22(3) of the Renewable Energy Directive II. [50144/23]
• 2023-11-09
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the community renewable projects that have received connection to the electricity network, and the year in which they received connection, in tabular form. [49184/23]
• 2023-11-09
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of RESS I and RESS II community renewable energy projects that were successful in the auctions and that have successfully connected to the grid, in tabular form. [49185/23]
• 2023-11-09
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline the project stages at which community renewable energy projects become eligible for funding from the SEAI; the amount of funding that becomes available at each stage; and the number of projects that have reached each stage. [49186/23]
• 2023-11-09
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of staff in his Department dedicated to supporting the generation of community renewable energy. [49187/23]
• 2023-11-09
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of staff in the SEAI dedicated to supporting the generation of community renewable energy. [49188/23]
• 2023-11-09
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of community renewable energy projects with which he has entered into an implementation agreement for each of the RESS 1 and RESS 2 auctions, in tabular form. [49189/23]
• 2023-11-09
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of community renewable energy projects at each milestone of the Implementation Agreement in each of the RESS 1 and RESS 2 auctions, in tabular form. [49190/23]
• 2023-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether the Government statement on the role of data centres in Ireland's enterprise strategy was screened for a strategic environment assessment. [47847/23]
• 2023-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the number of homes that have had solar panels installed by the SEAI scheme for the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [46889/23]
• 2023-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the average income of households that have had solar panels installed via schemes funded through his Department. [46890/23]
• 2023-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amounts left over from the electricity cost emergency benefits schemes I and II; and to outline how those funds were reallocated. [46891/23]
• 2023-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount of expenses incurred by the Minister in the administration of the electricity cost emergency benefits schemes I and II, in tabular form. [46892/23]
• 2023-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount of expenses incurred by the distribution system operator in the administration of the electricity cost emergency benefits scheme I and II, in tabular form. [46893/23]
• 2023-10-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline his understanding of the financial and governance issues currently taken place within an organisation (details supplied); the amounts of money involved separate to the outstanding income tax bill; whether the organisation will require additional Government funding in 2023; if so, the estimated amount; whether the Governments funding model for homeless services providers has created an environment where these organisations are under pressure to cross subsidise their SLA funding in a manner which may create increased or inappropriate risk in the management of their finances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44748/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the number of heat pumps installed in the warmer homes scheme and warmth and wellbeing scheme for 2023 to the end of July, in tabular form. [36632/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the amount of funding for heat pumps installed in the warmer homes scheme and warmth and wellbeing scheme for 2023 to the end of July, in tabular form. [36633/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the number of oil and gas boilers installed in the warmer homes scheme and warmth and wellbeing scheme for 2023 to the end of July, in tabular form. [36634/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the amount of funding for oil and gas boilers installed in the warmer homes scheme and warmth and wellbeing scheme for 2023 to the end of July, in tabular form. [36635/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the number of heat pumps installed in the warmer homes scheme and warmth and wellbeing scheme for 2023 to the end of June, in tabular form. [36636/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 13 June 2023, to outline what appropriate validation consisted of; and to clarify whether the account was subjected to external audit by the ESBs auditor. [36638/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the energy consumption of large energy users per annum for the past three years in megawatt hours, in tabular form. [36992/23]
• 2023-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 163 of 20 June 2023, to cite the specific law which empowered him or the Government to task the CRU to implement the decision. [35115/23]
• 2023-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the number of oil boilers and the number of gas boilers installed in the warmer homes scheme and warmth and wellbeing scheme for 2023 to date, in tabular form. [35279/23]
• 2023-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to report the percentage of demand for gas in all sectors including electricity generation, residential, and industrial and commercial broken down by retail, construction, laundry, leisure, air travel, data centres, pharma, hospitals, and any other key sectors, relative to the reference period for the year 2023, in tabular form. [35280/23]
• 2023-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline which other EU member states saw an increase in demand for gas of at least by 8 % in the period from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 compared to the average gas consumption during the reference period per the revised definition in the political agreement related to the proposal for an EU Council Regulation amending Regulation (EU) 2022/1369 as regards prolonging the demand reduction period for reduction measures for gas and reinforcing the reporting and monitoring of their implementation. [35281/23]
• 2023-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide an update on progress towards meeting the 15% demand reduction relative to the original reference period in Regulation (EU) 2022/1369, broken down by sector, in tabular form. [35282/23]
• 2023-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide an update on progress towards meeting the 15% demand reduction relative to the updated reference period in Regulation (EU) 2022/1369, as amended in March 2023, broken down by sector, in tabular form. [35283/23]
• 2023-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the timeline for the public consultation to be undertaken under Regulation (EU) 2023/955 establishing a Social Climate Fund under Article 5 of this Regulation which obliges Member States to undertake a public consultation with local and regional authorities, representatives of economic and social partners, relevant civil society organisations, youth organisations and other stakeholders when developing their social climate plans and requires each Member State to set reasonable timeframes for the public consultation, allowing sufficient time for the public to be informed, to participate and express its views. [33138/23]
• 2023-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications whether he has met with NAMA or sought a meeting with NAMA to discuss the issue of affordable housing delivery in the Poolbeg SDZ and the possible transfer of NAMA's 20% equity stake in Poolbeg to Dublin City Council to guarantee the delivery of the extra 15% affordable homes in the SDZ. [33142/23]
• 2023-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 13 June 2023, to publish the monthly reports on the financial status of the special fund. [31021/23]
• 2023-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the current and capital budget allocations for each programme under each subhead of the revised estimates for 2023 in the manner provided in response to Parliamentary Question Nos. 10 and 11 of 30 March 2022. [29189/23]
• 2023-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline all the occasions on which a direction was given under section 40M subsection 2 of the Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Carbon Revenue Levy) Act 2010 subsection 3; and to outline the manner in which he directed them. [29192/23]
• 2023-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the cost of the subscription to the Energy Charter Treaty for 2023. [29193/23]
• 2023-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the powers he used to direct the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities to use the 2009 special dividend from the ESB to subsidise the electricity bills of large energy users. [29462/23]
• 2023-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will indicate a date on which former workers at An Post can expect to receive an increase to their pensions, following an agreement reached in March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29688/23]
• 2023-06-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 279 of 26 November 2009, to detail where in the Government books is the €176 million special dividend from the ESB from 2009, accounted for as received and allocated. [27423/23]
• 2023-06-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to publish any Shareholder Expectations Frameworks and any formal dividend policies for the ESB that were in place for the period from July 2009 to September 2010. [27421/23]
• 2023-06-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he plans to submit an updated National Energy and Climate Plan before the 30 June deadline. [27424/23]
• 2023-06-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of rental properties that were retrofitted under each SEAI scheme, in tabular form. [27425/23]
• 2023-06-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline the government's position on the 19 June EU Energy Council agenda items. [27426/23]
• 2023-06-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the capital and current allocation for each retrofit scheme, in tabular form. [27427/23]
• 2023-06-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of the pay grades hired in his Department division energy security emergency management; and the costs of each. [27457/23]
• 2023-06-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of the average cost of a retrofit under each SEAI retrofitting scheme. [27720/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the parliamentary oversight processes for the collection and allocation of revenue from dividends from commercial State bodies such as NewERA designated bodies. [25569/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the EPA’s emissions data will provide a breakdown of emissions by income decile to highlight the relationship between emissions and wealth. [25568/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount of revenue that was raised by the carbon-revenue levy from the Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Carbon Revenue Levy) Act 2010 for the duration set out in the Act and any subsequent extensions of the Act. [25845/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of climate action coordinators, community climate officers, and climate action officers hired by each local authority to date, in tabular form. [25846/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of the indicative costs associated with hiring a climate action coordinator, a community climate officer, and a climate action officer, in tabular form. [25847/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update on plans to strengthen climate action teams in local authorities; the gaps and challenges which exist to reaching their potential; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25848/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the target number of retrofits under each scheme for 2022 and for 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26299/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of retrofits that were completed to B2 standard in 2022 and to date in 2023 under each scheme; and the average costs, in tabular form. [26300/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of houses retrofitted to a B2 standard that did not have new heating systems installed under each scheme in 2022 and to date in 2023; and the average costs, in tabular form. [26301/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of houses retrofitted to a B2 standard that had new heating systems installed under each scheme in 2022 and to date in 2023; and the average costs, in tabular form. [26302/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of houses retrofitted to a B2 standard that had fossil fuel boilers installed under each scheme in 2022 and to date in 2023; and the average costs, in tabular form. [26303/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of houses retrofitted to a B2 standard that had heat pumps installed under each scheme in 2022 and to date in 2023; and the average costs, in tabular form. [26304/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of retrofits that were completed to a lower-than-B2 standard in 2022 and to date in 2023 under each scheme; and the average costs, in tabular form. [26305/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of houses retrofitted to a lower-than-B2 standard that did not have any new heating systems installed under each scheme in 2022 and to date in 2023; and the average costs, in tabular form. [26306/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of houses retrofitted to a lower-than-B2 standard that had new heating systems installed under each scheme in 2022 and to date in 2023; and the average costs, in tabular form. [26307/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of houses retrofitted to a lower-than-B2 standard that had fossil fuel boilers installed under each scheme in each of the years 2022 and to date in 2023; and the average costs, in tabular form. [26308/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of houses retrofitted to a lower-than-B2 standard that had heat pumps installed under each scheme in each of the years 2022 and to date in 2023; and the average costs, in tabular form. [26309/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the average cost of achieving a B2 BER cost optimum standard in the better energy homes scheme in each of the years 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [26310/23]
• 2023-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if a breakdown of the budget allocations for each programme for each of the subheads will be provided, beyond what was provided in the estimates process. [26311/23]
• 2023-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on the special interim dividend mentioned in Parliamentary Questions (details supplied); if he will detail the mechanism through which the payments were made to large energy users; what the total value was for the dividend paid to the LEUs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25444/23]
• 2023-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on the special interim dividend mentioned in Parliamentary Questions (details supplied); if the payments were subject to the revised estimate process; if not, what parliamentary scrutiny and oversight there was of these payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25445/23]
• 2023-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the protections, if any, that are currently in place to ensure vulnerable, elderly people who live alone are not disconnected from their utilities due to increased energy prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24110/23]
• 2023-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the action, if any, the Government intends to take to decrease energy prices for struggling consumers, given that similar action taken by governments across Europe has resulted in savings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24111/23]
• 2023-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of how the dividend arising from the ESB in 2009 was allocated, in tabular form. [24202/23]
• 2023-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of staff from his Department who are working on electricity demand reduction; and the number of staff working on demand side management, in tabular form. [24845/23]
• 2023-05-16
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the percentage of successful applicants for the warmer homes scheme that come from each qualifying social welfare scheme, in tabular form. [22665/23]
• 2023-05-16
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update on progress towards meeting the target of 5% electricity demand reduction at peak time per Article 4 of Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 of 6 October 2022 on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices. [22730/23]
• 2023-05-16
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide update on progress towards meeting the target of 10% gross electricity demand reduction per Article 3 of Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 of 6 October 2022 on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices. [22731/23]
• 2023-05-16
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications whether he has conducted any analysis on the effect of increasing demand for gross and peak electricity on the cost of electricity. [22849/23]
• 2023-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will respond to the assertion made by Gas Networks Ireland in its Gas Forecast Statement 2022 (details supplied). [21730/23]
• 2023-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the measures that were proposed and adopted to reduce the total monthly gross electricity consumption by 10 %, per Article 3 of Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 of 6 October 2022 on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices. [21731/23]
• 2023-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the measures that were proposed and adopted to reduce the gross electricity consumption during the identified peak hours by 5% per Article 4 of Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 of 6 October 2022 on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices. [21732/23]
• 2023-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will publish the written inputs of the Government to the Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 of 6 October 2022. [21733/23]
• 2023-04-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the percentage change in demand for gas in all sectors, including electricity generation, residential, and industrial and commercial, broken down by retail, construction, laundry, leisure, air travel, data centres, pharma, hospitals, and any other key sectors for the year 2023, in tabular form. [19507/23]
• 2023-04-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the absolute demand for gas in each sector, including electricity generation, residential, and industrial and commercial, broken down by retail, construction, laundry, leisure, air travel, data centres, pharma, hospitals and any other key sectors, for 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [19508/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the Commission for Regulation of Utilities has had any engagement with utility providers regarding a reduction in the prices they currently charge household customers, given the fall in wholesale energy prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17401/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide advice to households that have already significantly reduced their energy usage but who are still experiencing difficulty in meeting costs; if further supports are to be made available to households in order to assist in meeting these costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17402/23]
• 2023-03-29
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the progress made towards the target of reducing demand for fossil gas by 15% as part of the RePowerEU plan; the reason the reduction in demand for fossil gas in the State was the smallest in the EU, only reducing demand by 0.3% compared with the EU average of 19%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15628/23]
• 2023-03-29
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the percentage change in demand for gas in all sectors, including electricity generation, residential, and industrial and commercial, broken down by retail, construction, laundry, leisure, air travel, data centres, pharma, hospitals, and any other key sectors, for the year 2022, in tabular form. [15629/23]
• 2023-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline in tabular form what steps for the preparation and proposal of new legislation in the Cabinet Handbook were adhered to, and not adhered to, with regard to the Environmental Protection Agency (Amendment) Bill 2023. [15268/23]
• 2023-03-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will consider developing a code of practice to assist State bodies to comply with the obligations under section 15 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 as amended by the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2021. [14579/23]
• 2023-03-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if a post-enactment review has been completed for each piece of legislation passed by his Department from 2018 to 2022, in tabular form. [14577/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications how he first became aware that growth in 'Islanded' data centres could result in security of supply risk being transferred from electricity to gas supply; the person or body that made him aware and when. [12247/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when he plans to publish his ministerial diary for the period since February 2022; and if he will undertake to publish them monthly going forward. [12248/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the SEAI will have final figures for the number of and amount of funding for heating systems upgrades installed, broken down by heat source, including from fossil fuel such as oil and gas, and electric heat pump and so on for the warmer homes scheme and warmth and wellbeing scheme in 2022, in tabular form. [12250/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will publish the ministerial accountability framework referred to in his opening statement to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment and Climate on 13 September 2022. [13365/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on Action RE/23/19 in the Climate Action Plan Annex of Action. [13366/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount transferred to the fund manager of the Climate Action Fund for emissions from official air travel pursuant to Circular 01/2020, broken down by each Department for each of the years 2020-2023, in tabular form. [13367/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of homes that were connected to the fossil gas grid fin each of the years 2019-2023, in tabular form. [13370/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of non-daily metered businesses that were connected to the fossil gas grid for each of the years 2019-2023, in tabular form. [13371/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of daily metered businesses that were connected to the fossil gas grid for each of the years 2019-2023, in tabular form. [13372/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of community heating schemes that were connected to the fossil gas grid for each of the years 2019-2023, in tabular form; and the number of apartments associated with those schemes. [13373/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number and location of islanded data centres currently operating. [13374/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number and location of islanded data centres proposed but not yet operating. [13375/23]
• 2023-03-08
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will confirm that he received a request for a pension increase in 2022 (details supplied); if the request has been considered; and if he will confirm a timeframe in which a decision will be provided. [11713/23]
• 2023-03-08
  VOTE
  Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages

  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 47–78
• 2023-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on a service operated by a company that previously worked in collaboration with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to reports that users of the service who do not wish to continue with a new paid, private subscription have requested their original heating controls be reinstated, but have been refused this by the company; and if he will outline the options open to them to pursue a satisfactory resolution. [11098/23]
• 2023-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications how the 2009 special dividend from ESB worth €176 million, following windfall profit due to the sale of generating plan to a company (details supplied), was allocated to different large energy users; if all LEUs benefitted equally; if some LEUs benefitted more than others; and if he will outline the value of the highest benefit, lowest benefit, average benefit, and median benefit that was received by a large energy user, in tabular form. [9296/23]
• 2023-02-08
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the way the large energy user rebalancing subvention was compliant with EU state aid rules. [6081/23]
• 2023-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of and amount of funding for heating systems upgrades installed broken down by heat source including from fossil fuel like oil and gas, and electric heat pump and so on for the warmer homes scheme and warmth and wellbeing scheme in 2022, in tabular form. [3984/23]
• 2023-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of letters received from energy investors between 1995 and 2021, including international arbitration that threatened the State with legal action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1773/23]
• 2022-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of threats of legal action and or legal cases that have been brought against the State by energy investors between 1995 and 2021 including international arbitration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62525/22]
• 2022-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his attention has been drawn to the decision by domestic waste collection operators to increase their standing charges and lift fees; if he is concerned of the impact of these increases; and if he intends to take steps to prevent or mitigate these increased charges particularly for vulnerable and low-income customers. [61782/22]
• 2022-12-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on whether a ban on advertising and sponsorships by fossil fuel companies would be a good policy decision; and if not, the reason for same. [60275/22]
• 2022-12-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his Department is considering further support payments to households in order to assist in meeting increased fuel costs. [60322/22]
• 2022-12-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if consideration will be given to allowing households transfer the €200 electricity credit payment onto their fuel accounts in order to assist in meeting fuel costs. [60323/22]
• 2022-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the date that each of the public consultations was launched by his Department; and the date that the results of the consultation were published in tabular form. [57554/22]
• 2022-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update on Ireland’s position on the energy charter treaty, in view of the conclusion of the government of the Netherlands that it is incompatible with the Paris Agreement. [53570/22]
• 2022-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the actions, if any, that have been taken to inform relevant bodies of their obligations under section 15 of the Climate Act 2021 as amended. [53571/22]
• 2022-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there is a possibility of mobile phone and broadband blackouts this winter which could leave people unable to make emergency calls in the event of power cuts and if he has consulted the telecommunications industry on risks and mitigation. [52470/22]
• 2022-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide update on progress made towards transposing article 2 (15) of the Directive (EU) 2019/944 regarding dynamic electricity price contracts. [51303/22]
• 2022-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update regarding which of the following articles of Directive (EU) 2019/944 remain to be transposed; and if he will outline the financial penalties that have been imposed, if any, in tabular form. [51304/22]
• 2022-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of attics that would have been insulated by 2021 assuming that the rate of attic insulation would have continued at the rate seen in 2011 and been maintained in each subsequent year. [51306/22]
• 2022-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of attics that remain to be insulated. [51307/22]
• 2022-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of heating systems upgrades installed broken down by heat source including but not limited to oil, gas, electric heat pump and so on for the warmer homes scheme for the year to date in 2022, in tabular form. [51308/22]
• 2022-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will introduce a ban on advertising and sponsorships by fossil fuel companies; and if not, the reasons. [51961/22]
• 2022-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the maximum amount that was available to the State to apply for; and the reason that there was no application for the biomethane section of REPowerEU that has a budget of €35 billion. [51962/22]
• 2022-10-11
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department. [50120/22]
• 2022-10-11
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of public funds for domestic flights by Departments and bodies under their aegis. [50119/22]
• 2022-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of domestic flights for work purposes taken by him, Ministers of State in his Department and Department staff for each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [47912/22]
• 2022-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on the proposal in the European Citizens’ Initiative (2021) 000004 to ban fossil fuel ads. [48164/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the policy decisions that were made on the report by the Rental Sector Energy Efficiency Advisory Group’s recommendations. [46912/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will outline the process and timeline for ratifying the modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty. [46913/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on reports that United States government institutions such as the Pentagon and the United States Department of Justice store data in Ireland as part of their redundancy strategy. [46914/22]
• 2022-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 24 May 2022, if commercial semi-State bodies are exempt from obligations under the Climate Amendment Act 2021, given that they are exempt from freedom of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2014; and if the Climate Action Framework for the commercial semi-State sector is outside those obligations. [46917/22]
• 2022-09-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the current status of plans to introduce a bin waiver scheme as announced in 2017; the reason for the delay; if the scheme will be introduced soon in view of the rising cost-of-living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44744/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the reason that the criteria in HR circular 22/2022, which relates to the new temporary scheme of paid leave for public health service employees who are unfit for work post Covid-19 infection, excludes employees who do not work in a Covid-19 exposed environment as defined in the Risk Assessment for Covid-19 Vaccination Guidelines for Healthcare Workers but who contracted Covid-19 in their workplace during 2020 and 2021; and if his Department will reconsider this exclusion given the number of healthcare workers impacted by long Covid. [42344/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of heating systems upgrades installed broken down by heat source including but not limited to oil, gas, electric heat pump and so on for the warmer homes scheme for the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [41304/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of heating systems upgrades installed broken down by heat source including but not limited to oil, gas, electric heat pump and so on for the warmth and wellbeing scheme in each of the years 2019 to date in 2022, in tabular form. [41305/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of retrofits completed per month under the warmer homes scheme in 2022, in tabular form. [41306/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 113 of 11 May 2022, when the implementation report on the 2016-2019 Energy Poverty Strategy will be available; and the status of the new energy poverty strategy. [41307/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 90, 105, 106, 107 and 110 of 24 May and 77 of 31 May 2022, the status of the replies. [41319/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of staff employed by a section 38 organisation (details supplied) who were deemed eligible and received the pandemic recognition payment have now been advised they are not eligible and are liable for overpayments despite working in an environment that warranted their inclusion in sequence group 1 and 2 of the vaccination programme and being in direct contact with patients; if this is correct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39600/22]
• 2022-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if any analysis has been undertaken, including investigation of potential environmental damage or if any corrective actions have taken place in relation to windfarm sites at Derrybrein, Keeper Hill or Meenbog. [38179/22]
• 2022-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has a forum through which concerned citizens and non-Governmental organisations can be briefed and raise concerns or make submissions directly to his Department in relation to potential environmental damage as a consequence of planning and development decisions. [38180/22]
• 2022-06-01
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason the long-term Climate Action Strategy which was to be completed in quarter one 2022 as set out in the Annex of Actions of the Climate Action Plan 2021, has not been completed. [28240/22]
• 2022-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will report on the heat loss indicator study; the timeline for its completion; if there are any preliminary results; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27445/22]
• 2022-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the estimated potential cost savings for the retrofit schemes of a heat loss indicator result of between 2.3 and 2.6 that enabled the installation of a heat pump with fewer energy efficiency upgrades. [27446/22]
• 2022-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the average cost of a retrofit to a building energy rating of B2 which does not involve a heat pump. [27447/22]
• 2022-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the emissions saved in each retrofit scheme from the homes that were retrofitted to BER B2 standard in each of the years from 2019 to date in tabular form. [27448/22]
• 2022-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of charities or not-for-profit run facilities that were beneficiaries in the community energy grant in each of the years 2019-2021 and to date in 2022; the average cost of retrofitting them; and the average depth of retrofit and the average emissions savings in tabular form. [27449/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the microgeneration support scheme will be established; and when microgenerators will begin receiving payments. [25815/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if each State body (details supplied) is exempt from obligations under the Climate Amendment Act 2021 given that they are exempt from freedom of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, in tabular form. [25816/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the data required (details supplied) for a social impact assessment is collected as part of the warmer homes scheme under the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's 2020 inconclusive social impact assessment in tabular form. [25817/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount of VAT paid on solar panels in schemes administered by his Department.. [25819/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 10 May 2022, if he will outline the programme, proposed outputs and timeline for the pilot to achieve B2 retrofits in the warmer homes scheme. [25820/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the breakdown of the cost of retrofitting a dwelling to B2 under the better energy community grant scheme. [25821/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the average depth of retrofit of each retrofit scheme in 2021 and in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25822/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of retrofits completed per month under the warmer homes scheme in 2022, in tabular form. [25823/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the average cost of completion per dwelling under the warmer homes scheme for each of the years 2019 to 2022. [25824/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the value for money of each of the retrofit schemes expressed as estimated CO2 savings per Euro invested in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25825/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of the number of installed oil and gas-boilers from both the warmer homes scheme and the warmth and wellbeing scheme for the years 2016-2022, in tabular form. [26224/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of funds spent on installed oil and gas boilers from both the warmer homes scheme and the warmth and wellbeing scheme for the years 2016-2022, in tabular form. [26225/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of homes that have received retrofit works from both the energy-efficiency obligation scheme and the retrofit schemes operated by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland per year for the years 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [26227/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the emissions saved per-retrofit scheme for the years 2016-2020, in tabular form. [26228/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a breakdown of the cost of each retrofit scheme per kWh of primary energy saved annually and per-lifetime tCO2 saved over 15 years, in tabular form. [26229/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will outline the number of dwellings that were assessed for a heat pump for the years 2019 to 2022; and the number of dwellings that failed to pass that assessment for the years 2019 to 2022, in tabular form. [26230/22]
• 2022-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of homes, broken down by BER rating, prior to their retrofitting under the warmer homes scheme in 2021; the number of homes, broken down by BER rating, after their retrofitting under the warmer homes scheme in 2021, in tabular form [24845/22]
• 2022-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the average cost of achieving a B2 BER cost optimum standard in the warmer homes scheme in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [24846/22]
• 2022-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of homes at each pre-works BER rating that achieved a B2 cost optimum standard in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [24847/22]
• 2022-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of dwellings owned by landlords that have received works under each of the retrofit schemes in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [24848/22]
• 2022-05-11
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the implementation report on the 2016-2019 Energy Poverty Strategy will be available and the status of the new energy poverty strategy. [23604/22]
• 2022-05-11
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will consider introducing a RESS auction for multi-day energy storage. [23605/22]
• 2022-05-11
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update on Eirgrid’s TSO transmission system operator; and when it will be in a position to recognise battery storage. [23606/22]
• 2022-05-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of households that will be eligible to benefit from the warmer homes scheme’s extended qualification criteria to include those in receipt of the disability allowance for over six months and have a child under seven years. [23025/22]
• 2022-05-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 of 15 February 2022, when the Annual Transition Statement will be published. [23026/22]
• 2022-05-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when a reply to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 1 March 2022, will be published. [23027/22]
• 2022-05-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there are plans to carry out a follow up Social Impact Assessment on the programmes targeting energy poverty since the assessment that was published in October 2020 which found the level of data collected was insufficient to provide an assessment of the schemes’ impact on recipients. [23028/22]
• 2022-05-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of homes targeted per retrofit scheme; and the number of fossil fuel powered boilers installed per scheme in tabular form. [23029/22]
• 2022-05-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of homes in the warmer homes scheme that have achieved a building energy rating, BER, of B2 or greater for years 2019-2022, in tabular form. [23030/22]
• 2022-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the Commission for Regulation of Utilities has carried out an examination of the structural factors as to the reason that persons are reluctant to switch energy supplier; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22483/22]
• 2022-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on the IPCC AR6 WGIII report which states that the Energy Charter Treaty and its inclusion of Investor State Dispute Settlement is protecting the interests of fossil fuel investors from national policies that could lead to their assets being stranded; and if he will set a deadline for progress on the modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty and commit to Ireland withdrawing if no progress is made by that date. [22487/22]
• 2022-04-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the recommendation of the spending review Social Impact Assessment – SEAI Programmes Targeting Energy Poverty 2020 that the energy poverty schemes should collect information both before and after energy efficiency works which can be used to assess whether they are achieving their aims has been implemented; and if not, the reason therefor. [17666/22]
• 2022-04-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the projected output for each retrofit scheme for 2022, in tabular form. [17667/22]
• 2022-04-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the emissions saved per retrofit scheme for 2021, in tabular form. [17668/22]
• 2022-04-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the shortfall, and the measures that are proposed to make up the shortfall, in emissions reductions from buildings, given that the retrofit schemes will only go part of the way to meeting the 2030 emissions target. [17669/22]
• 2022-04-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the average cost of retrofits for the deep retrofit scheme for each year since it opened, in tabular form; and the length of time after the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland stopped receiving applications that the payments will cease being made. [17670/22]
• 2022-04-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the steps that are being taken to increase warmer homes scheme output to 400 per month; and the average monthly output for the scheme in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form. [17671/22]
• 2022-03-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if a breakdown of the current and capital budget allocations for each programme under each subhead of the Revised Estimates for 2022 will be provided. [16914/22]
• 2022-03-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if a breakdown of the current and capital budget allocations for each programme under each subhead of the Revised Estimates for 2021 will be provided. [16915/22]
• 2022-03-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if a breakdown of the budget allocations for each programme for each of the subheads B4 and B11 of the Supplementary Estimate for 2022 will be provided. [16916/22]
• 2022-03-29
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the Demand Side Strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15917/22]
• 2022-03-29
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of meetings his Department has had with stakeholders in relation to the Demand Side Strategy; the stakeholders which were met; and the frequency and dates of those meetings. [15918/22]
• 2022-03-29
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount EirGrid paid to demand side units to reduce consumption in order to alleviate pressure on the grid over the course of 2020 and 2021; the number of requests made; and the amount that was paid out in each request. [16315/22]
• 2022-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the breakdown for the current and capital budget allocations for each subhead of the Revised Estimates for 2022. [14218/22]
• 2022-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the breakdown for the current and capital budget allocations for each subhead of the revised estimates for 2021. [14219/22]
• 2022-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the breakdown for the budget allocations for the subheads B4 and B11 of the Supplementary Estimate for 2022. [14220/22]
• 2022-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a comprehensive statement on the European Commission enforcement case (2012) 4028 regarding Ireland's alleged failure to transpose and apply the access to justice provisions of Directives 2010/75/EU and 2011/92/EU including a summary of the grounds of the complaint and the Government's response to the complaint. [14361/22]
• 2022-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the details of the carryover of €57.9 million from 2021; the details of the programmes from which it came in tabular form; the details of the programmes it was proposed to be allocated prior to approval of the supplementary estimate in tabular form; and the details of the way it is now proposed to be allocated subsequent to the approval of the supplementary estimate in tabular form. [14639/22]
• 2022-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the details of the carryover of €37.75 million from 2020; the details of the programmes from which it came in tabular form; the details of the way it was proposed to be allocated in 2021, in tabular form. [14640/22]
• 2022-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update on the number of homeowners on the warmer homes scheme waiting list; and the average time from application to completion for homes in Q1. [14641/22]
• 2022-03-08
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on the fact that the Commission for Regulation of Utilities has not carried out a risk assessment or an analysis of Ireland’s financial exposure under the provisions of the Energy Charter Treaty in its regulation of new gas fired power plants [12724/22]
• 2022-03-08
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the progress of the Energy Charter Treaty modernisation process; and if there is no progress on its modernisation his views on the timeframe by which he will pursue exit from the treaty [12725/22]
• 2022-03-01
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a list of names of relevant bodies under the Climate Act 2021. [11355/22]
• 2022-03-01
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans to invite councils to prepare Local Authority Climate Action Plans under Section 15 of the Climate Act 2021; when the guidelines will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11356/22]
• 2022-03-01
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the category of Public Service Obligation customers for public lighting that is charged a PSO levy broken down by domestic, small commercial or medium, and high commercial category. [11359/22]
• 2022-03-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether the staffing levels proposed by An Bord Pleanála for its new marine and climate unit within the strategic infrastructure development structure will be sufficient to deal with the number of planning applications expected from offshore renewable energy projects in the coming years; if he will consider working with industry, the environmental sector and other key stakeholders to identify the likely resources demands that An Bord Pleanála will face in successfully and robustly processing these applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11313/22]
• 2022-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the European Commission enforcement case (2012) 4028 regarding Ireland's alleged failure to transpose and apply the access to justice provisions of Directives 2010/75/EU and 2011/92/EU; and if he will include a report on the origins of the case and the most recent correspondence with the European Commission on the matter [9845/22]
• 2022-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will address the proposed extension of the EU emissions trading system to energy and household energy production and its impacts on customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9857/22]
• 2022-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the review of the implementation of the Energy Poverty Strategy 2016-2019 will be published. [7894/22]
• 2022-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will give consideration to banning per- and poly-fluoroalkylated substances. [8346/22]
• 2022-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 17 June 2021, the status of progress made towards the Annual Transition Statement for 2020. [8348/22]
• 2022-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the ESRI-led research network on fuel poverty and the work with which it has been tasked; and the timeline for completion [8350/22]
• 2022-02-08
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of plans to roll-out the SEAI LEAF programme for sustainable energy communities. [5943/22]
• 2022-01-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason for excluding natural gas from head 20 of the general scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63139/21]
• 2022-01-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the risk analysis that has been taken regarding the proposed new gas power plants and the liabilities of the State under the energy charter treaty investor provisions given a judgement (details supplied); his views on the fact that the European Union energy investors can set up an office in another country to avoid the European Court of Justice ruling; and the way an energy investment with mixed European Union and non-European Union investors could take legal action under the Energy Charter Treaty on grounds of discrimination. [63273/21]
• 2021-12-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the risk analysis that has been taken regarding the proposed new gas power plants and the liabilities of the State under the energy charter treaty investor provisions. [62272/21]
• 2021-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the role of advisers (details supplied) in the ownership structure of National Broadband Ireland and its role in the National Broadband Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61548/21]
• 2021-11-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the sector under which emissions from the Defence Forces are accounted for under the carbon budgets and sectoral emissions ceilings; and if the Defence Forces emissions are accounted for when reporting emissions to the European Union and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. [57075/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the current position with customers who have, on the advice of Government. installed solar power and await a system to receive payment on return of excess to the grid. [52506/21]
• 2021-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the annual remuneration and expenses allowance per member of the Climate Change Advisory Council in tabular form. [51439/21]
• 2021-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there are plans to establish the necessary statistical capacity to track material flow in Ireland; and if he will under the forthcoming circular economy legislation commit to setting national material flow targets. [51440/21]
• 2021-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the public appointment process that was used to appoint the new members of the Climate Change Advisory Council announced on 12 October 2021. [51186/21]
• 2021-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering exempting peat extraction from the planning system for new developments and the substitute consent process for unauthorised developments; if so, the reason for considering such a move; the timeframe for a decision on this matter; and if such a move would be compliant with EU environmental law. [51326/21]
• 2021-09-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the research that has been conducted by his Department into the carbon emissions embedded in the materials used to retrofit homes; and the timeframe for them to be offset by the associated energy savings. [44534/21]
• 2021-09-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when projects on the 4th Projects of Common Interest will cease to benefit from having PCI accreditation. [44535/21]
• 2021-09-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the State’s position on reform of the Energy Charter Treaty has changed in response to the recent ruling C-741/19, by The Court of Justice of the European Union which held that EU climate polluters could not use the ISDS arbitration system under the Energy Charter Treaty to claim compensation in disputes between member states for legislating for changes in social and environmental laws. [44537/21]
• 2021-09-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of warmer homes schemes units that have been sold within five years of receiving the grant; and the breakdown of the costs recovered. [44538/21]
• 2021-09-09
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the steps his Department is taking to ensure that social housing funded under section 38 of the Health Act 2004 can access energy efficient retrofitting schemes in the future. [41608/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the current and capital funding allocation for 2021 for the Environmental Protection Agency. [39541/21]
• 2021-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he is considering changes to the Electronic Commerce Act 2000 to allow the use of digital signatures on documents in property transactions; and the status of this proposal. [35619/21]
• 2021-06-30
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 16 June 2021, the breakdown for the current costs associated with administering the Just Transition Fund and to account for source of the funding for the Just Transition Fund of 29 mentioned. [35544/21]
• 2021-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason the Decarbonisation Pathways for Ireland by a company (details supplied) is not being published. [33635/21]
• 2021-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of new applicants for the warmer homes scheme in 2019, 2020 and 2021. [33637/21]
• 2021-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of households that have applied for the warmer homes scheme retrofit grant that have children in their homes. [33638/21]
• 2021-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of applicants per qualifying payment that applied in 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [33639/21]
• 2021-06-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if consideration has been given to community renewable projects for offshore wind developments. [33436/21]
• 2021-06-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the breakdown of current and capital expenditure for each climate action in the Climate Action Plan. [32832/21]
• 2021-06-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason there is no stand-alone retrofit grant for community groups akin to the better energy homes grant; and the reason they must apply in block grants with homes and businesses under the community grant. [33326/21]
• 2021-06-22
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide the breakdown of the cost of the just transition commissioner. [33327/21]
• 2021-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the current and capital costs involved with each action item in the Interim Climate Action Plan under his Department’s responsibility. [32693/21]
• 2021-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of progress made towards the Annual Transition Statement for 2020. [32703/21]
• 2021-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the breakdown of the cost per school for retrofits under the pathfinder scheme. [32705/21]
• 2021-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of replacing the lapsed energy poverty strategy. [32707/21]
• 2021-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of plans to make Ireland a leader in hydrogen storage; and the estimated cost of a hydrogen 50 MW hydrolyser. [30811/21]
• 2021-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of responses to the public consultation on the microgeneration support scheme. [30812/21]
• 2021-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the costed breakdown of the supports, that is, seed funding, technical capacity, through RESS and otherwise for the development of community renewable energy projects. [30815/21]
• 2021-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of homes on the waiting list for the warmer homes scheme; and the number of households by the qualifying social welfare payment. [30827/21]
• 2021-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if a line by line breakdown will be provided of the current and capital expenditure of the renewable energy support scheme communities and the renewable electricity support scheme communities; and the associated outputs from those programmes. [30828/21]
• 2021-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of item demand generation-national retrofit; and the breakdown of the current and capital expenditure. [30829/21]
• 2021-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the de-risking of a low-cost residential retrofit loan scheme; and the proposed eligibility criteria for beneficiaries. [30830/21]
• 2021-06-01
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the role his Department will play in the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility given the significant amount of funds ring-fenced for climate. [29557/21]
• 2021-05-11
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the costs for subscriptions to international organisations and treaties; and the breakdown in terms of the cost of subscription per international organisation per year. [23854/21]
• 2021-04-28
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there are other examples in legislation in which the Government has limited liability from claims for damages or compensation for failure to comply with an Act as in section 4 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021 (details supplied). [21534/21]
• 2021-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans to amend the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021 to make the Government a relevant body under section 15 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19630/21]
• 2021-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on the impact of the recent judgement (details supplied) delivered on 30 March 2021 on the upcoming Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19631/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the recent changes to the SEAI schemes for private homeowners; and the reason homeowners that availed of secondary measures under the scheme previously are refused further works. [16741/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the recent changes to the SEAI schemes for private homeowners; and the reason homeowners who availed of secondary measures under the scheme previously are refused further works. [17069/21]
• 2021-03-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the title of each study, review and research undertaken or commissioned by his Department in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021. [15995/21]
• 2021-03-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the percentage reduction when the target to reduce GHG emissions to 29.8 GtCO2e by 2030, a 51% reduction relative to 2018, is expressed relative to 1990 and 2005 baselines. [15996/21]
• 2021-03-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the dedicated email addresses for Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas to contact his Department and bodies under its aegis as outlined in circular 25/2016. [16003/21]
• 2021-03-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the average cost for shallow works, deep works and deep works with heating upgrades under the warmer homes scheme. [12755/21]
• 2021-03-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the criteria for deciding whether to complete shallow, deep works or deep works with heating upgrade under the warmer homes scheme. [12756/21]
• 2021-03-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the estimated total scheme spend in relation to the better energy communities scheme for 2020; the energy poverty spend; the domestic spend; the number of homes completed; and the number of energy poverty homes completed. [12757/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the cost of purchasing credits to meet emissions and renewable energy targets in each of the years 2010 to 2020. [11567/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the credits his Department attributed from sustainable land use, land use change and forestry measures towards Ireland’s non-emissions trading system target under EU effort sharing regulations. [11568/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his 2030 target for energy efficiency. [11569/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the impact greenhouse gas permits granted to data centres will have on meeting EU ETS targets. [11570/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the impact greenhouse gas permits granted to data centres will have on the State’s anticipated revenue from auctioning credits. [11571/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the estimated amount of revenue expected to be raised through the auction of allowances under the emissions trading system over the next ten years. [11572/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when his Department expects to produce its updated National Energy and Climate Plan. [11573/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount of revenue raised by the EPA through penalties for failing to surrender necessary allowances under the EU emissions trading system detailing each licensee fined in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form. [11574/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications he estimated number of credits from non-emissions trading system emissions the State expects to meet its targets under projected existing measures, WEM, and additional measures, WAM, scenarios under EU effort sharing regulations; and the estimated amount of revenue it is likely to be forfeited from not auctioning those credits at assumed high and low costs. [11575/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the estimated cost in fines and purchase of credits for failing to meet EU targets between 2021 and 2030 under existing measures, WEM, and additional measures, WAM, scenarios. [11576/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of community retrofit grant, formerly better energy communities recipients, who installed photovoltaic solar panels by type of recipient that is business, community group, energy poor, non-energy poor and local authority housing in each of the years 2018 to 2020. [11577/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans for energy storage to coincide with offshore wind generation. [11578/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if a report was commissioned on the fuel stamps scheme of a charity (details supplied) to determine the scope for expanding the scheme nationally per the Strategy to Combat Energy Poverty 2016-2019; and if so, if a copy of same will be provided. [11579/21]
• 2021-02-11
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the hiring process by which he made the recent appointments to the CCAC. [7683/21]
• 2021-02-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and its review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; the details on the stated need to consider environmental assessment reporting before finalisation; when the interim planning regulations will be submitted to the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7684/21]
• 2021-02-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of applications for open area exploration licences and licensing options received by his Department over the past five years; and the decision by his Department regarding each application in tabular form. [6819/21]
• 2021-02-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of offshore oil and gas exploration licences that are currently open by the date each application was received in tabular form. [6820/21]
• 2021-02-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of applications for extension to offshore oil and gas licensing terms received in his Department by month that the application was received and the decision by his Department in tabular form. [6821/21]
• 2021-02-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans to make details regarding applications for oil and gas exploration public on his Department’s website; and if it will be updated monthly. [6822/21]
• 2021-02-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the implementation of the nZEB regulations for residential developments in social and private housing; and the engagement he has had with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to ensure full compliance with these important regulations. [6305/21]
• 2021-02-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the savings made by the EEOS by type of customer, that is, commercial, private and energy poverty; and the social impact analysis and the average efficiency gain per customer, that is, average depth of retrofit. [5993/21]
• 2021-02-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the impact of the EEOS on customer bills. [5995/21]
• 2021-02-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if an annual update on the implementation on the Strategy to Combat Energy Poverty was made between 2016 and 2019; if so, if a copy will be provided; and if not, the reason. [5996/21]
• 2021-02-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the social policy and public service reform division received annual progress updates from Ministers responsible for energy poverty between 2016 and 2019; if so, if a copy of same will be provided; and if not, the reason. [5997/21]
• 2021-02-03
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the functions of the built environment advisory unit within his Department; the number of staff; the role of each; the work the unit undertakes with regard to the promotion of building standards including informing the building industry and building control authorities of the current building regulations and the updating of those regulations; if the unit has functions or powers to inspect construction sites; and if so, the basis and purpose. [5433/21]
• 2021-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the consultation results are publicly available on the website of his Department for each public consultation held by his Department or by a State agency under the remit of his Department over the past ten years; if the consultation discussion documents are publicly available on the website; if the consultation replies are published on the website; and if he will provide a link in regard to cases in which they are published and the reason in cases in which they are not published in tabular form. [3605/21]
• 2021-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on the cause of the recent electricity shortages and amber alerts; and if the increased demand from data centres has been taken into account. [3606/21]
• 2021-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his Department has information to show to the extent to which domestic turf cutting mitigates energy poverty; and the measures taken to alleviate energy poverty specifically. [3607/21]
• 2020-12-08
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the breakdown of the €108 million of State funding allocated to the bog rehabilitation scheme; the amount for decommissioning of power plants or peatland rehabilitation; the regularity with which this funding will be made available.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41218/20]
• 2020-12-08
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the subsidies for electric vehicles by BEV and PHEV and by model and private or company purchases. [41529/20]
• 2020-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans to replace the Strategy to Combat Energy Poverty in Ireland 2016-2019 with a new strategy. [38226/20]
• 2020-11-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the public consultation on removing barriers to energy efficiency in the rental sector by addressing the split-incentive problem. [32442/20]
• 2020-11-03
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications the funding allocation for his Department for 2021 by project. [32444/20]
• 2020-11-03
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if funding for the retrofitting of local authority housing will continue to be provided by his Department; and if not, if all social housing retrofitting funding will now come from the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications.. [32688/20]
• 2020-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the detail of the organisations that made submissions to the public consultation on the general scheme of the water environment (abstractions) Bill in September and October 2018. [31930/20]
• 2020-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications if he will adopt at the European Council the position of Irish MEPs and that of the European Parliament on the EU climate law, which sets an ambition of at least a 60% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030; if he will support the European Parliament’s position; and the implications that has on the Programme for Government’s ambition of 51% emissions reduction by 2030. [31125/20]
• 2020-09-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if changes will need to be made to environmental impact assessment legislation in view of the European Court of Judgement decision on the planning permission by a company (details supplied) in County Kerry. [25124/20]
• 2020-07-30
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the multi-year programme to rehabilitate 33,000 ha of Bord na Móna peatland as part of the July stimulus package is in addition to the October 2019 announcement to rehabilitate 35,000 ha of Bord na Móna peatland by 2025 or if there has been a 2,000 ha reduction in the plans for peatland rehabilitation. [20038/20]
• 2020-07-28
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of the former the Department budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency of €11.78 million in capital and €25.14 million current for 2019. [18165/20]
• 2020-07-21
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the introduction of a deposit and return scheme to encourage persons to return plastic and glass bottles to shops or commercial companies in order to reduce waste, increase reuse of plastics and glass and promote the circular economy. [16628/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number and average amount of grants drawn down via the better energy homes scheme in 2019. [3491/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households that have benefitted from the warmth and well-being pilot scheme; the average cost per home; and his plans to expand the pilot scheme to areas outside of Dublin 8, 10, 12, 22 and 24. [3492/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households that have benefitted from the SEAI deep retrofit pilot scheme; and the average cost per home. [3493/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the package of measures available to SMEs and other commercial businesses to mitigate against greenhouse gas emissions. [3494/20]
• 2019-12-18
  VOTE
  Environmental Policy

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 38–76
• 2019-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the recent decision by a number of domestic bin collection companies to increase their annual standing charge and lift charge; the steps he plans to take to ensure that those on low incomes including pensioners are protected from such unregulated price increases; and the steps he is taking to see the return of the service to local authorities. [46134/19]
• 2019-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Culture

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the draft national policy for architecture and the built environment. [44974/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the information he received regarding the failure of Irish Water and Fingal County Council to fully implement the recommendations of the March 2019 drinking water audit report relating to the Leixlip water treatment plant prior to the alum dosing incident that resulted in the issuing of a boil water notice for 615,539 persons on 21 October 2019; and the action he will take in view of the findings of the October 2019 Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, drinking water audit report regarding the Leixlip plant, which indicated the October boil water notice. [45363/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the cause of the recent boil water notice at the Leixlip water treatment plant was the same as that discovered by the Environmental Protection Agency in March 2019. [45234/19]
• 2019-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, assessment concluding that the Ringsend water treatment plant is not big enough to properly treat all the wastewater that it receives; the conversations he has had with Irish Water on the recent discharges of large volumes of untreated sewage into Dublin Bay; the steps which will be taken to ensure that the State is not in further breach of the urban wastewater treatment directive due to these ongoing breaches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37633/19]
• 2019-06-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his officials or the relevant State agencies have been consulted on a planning application by a company (details supplied) to build an underground gold and silver mine in west County Tyrone under EU transboundary environmental requirements. [26071/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of all exploration and drilling licences issued to a company (details supplied) or pending following applications. [18989/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual cost for the purchase of emissions allowances for each year that such allowances have been purchased, in tabular form. [15090/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a domestic waste collection waiver or rebate for those full-time carers caring for family members who are doubly incontinent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14933/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to a working group established to consider introducing a domestic waste collection waiver or rebate for those full-time carers caring for family members who are doubly incontinent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14934/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the provision of an annual support towards the cost of pay by weight bin charges for households disposing of incontinence wear; and when it will be introduced. [12869/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 499 of 26 February 2019, if his attention has been drawn to a perceived anomaly in the response concerned (details supplied); he will retract his previous response; and the reason Ireland did not object to the position of the council of delaying the 90% separate collection target by five years. [10594/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 500 of 26 February 2019, (details supplied), his views on the perceived disproportionate consultation with a company by his Department in relation to the single use plastics directive; his further views on whether there is a potential conflict of interest in view of the fact the company, a producer led EPR system, would have vested interests in preventing the set up of deposit refund schemes as provided for in article 9 of the directive; and the reason the draft report from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment, which was noted as strictly confidential, was shared and the CEO and executive manager for strategy and policy of the company invited to discuss it and propose amendments thereto. [10693/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 505, 507 and 508 of 19 February 2019 and 501 and 502 of 21 February 2019 (details supplied), if the revision of the EU nationally determined contribution to 55% at the summit in Sibiu will be endorsed; and if not, the reason therefor. [10694/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the most up to date figures on Ireland's energy mix, including percentages for the national provenance of energy in tabular form; the progress of Ireland in relation to 2020 and 2030 renewable energy targets including the current percentage of renewable energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10695/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the possibility of Ireland committing to a fossil fuel phase out date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10699/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the modulation of fees within the extended producer responsibility systems such as a company (details supplied) in order to effect a tangible decrease in the level of packaging waste and avoid EPR contributions being seen as a participation tax by producers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10700/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the €22 billion of the €116 billion investment package within Project Ireland 2040 will go towards the objective of transitioning to a low carbon and climate resilient society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10702/19]
• 2019-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he plans to include in the national clean air strategy; and the expected breakdown of funding. [10704/19]
• 2019-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the delayed implementation deadline for extended producer responsibility measures, which following interinstitutional negotiations would not need to come into effect until 31 December 2024 (details supplied); and the steps he will take to support more ambitious targets for this directive. [9672/19]
• 2019-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 509 of 19 February 2019, the reason he did not state if there is a protocol or set of guidelines for his Department on sharing information, including amendments that are not available to the public, with lobbyists, industry, NGOs and others during EU interinstitutional negotiations; the protocols and guidelines in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9673/19]
• 2019-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 509 of 19 February 2019, his views on a revision upwards of the EU-wide nationally determined contribution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 1990 levels; his plans to seek to strengthen the EU's 2030 climate goals from the current 40% to the recommended 55%, in order to be compliant with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommendations of keeping global warming under 1.5°C; and the ambition he will be advocating for EU climate targets. [9674/19]
• 2019-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he is taking with the EU to raise climate action ambition; and the steps he is taking to reverse the reputation Ireland has of playing a negative role in the formation of EU climate policy, according to an organisation (details supplied). [9675/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of amendments tabled at the European Council relating to the directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment. [7768/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to revise Ireland's nationally determined contribution for 2030 in respect of the Paris Agreement; and the percentage of greenhouse gas reduction compared to 2005 levels he would endorse. [7769/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether renewable natural gas has a role in the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. [7770/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the communication from the European Commission, A Clean Planet for All, a European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy. [7771/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of preparations for a long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategy, which is due to be submitted to the UNFCCC secretariat in 2020 according to the obligations of the Paris Agreement. [7772/19]
• 2019-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is a protocol or guidelines for his Department regarding sharing information, including amendments that are not available to the public, with lobbyists, industry officials, NGOs and others during EU interinstitutional negotiations; and his views on the sharing of such information with a company (details supplied) in relation to the directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment. [7773/19]
• 2019-02-06
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his predecessor supported the 90% separate collection target by 2025 for plastic beverage bottles contained in Article 9 of the single-use plastics directive at European Council meetings. [5879/19]
• 2019-02-06
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amendments tabled at European Council meetings on the proposal for a directive on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment regarding Article 9 of the single-use plastics directive. [5880/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 16 January 2019, the percentage of new buildings that have an A2 energy rating as required by the nearly zero energy building standard requirements; the percentage of public buildings owned and leased by the State are fully compliant with the standard requirements as of the end of 2018; the mechanism by which compliance with the building standards and EU legal requirements are monitored; and his views on whether the State is compliant with the standard requirements. [2935/19]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for the regulation of pricing in the domestic bin collection sector to ensure that customers' rights are protected; and his views on the recommendations in the recent report from the Competition and Consumer Protection Council on the domestic waste collection sector. [50119/18]
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost of the contracting out of secure printing by his Department in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [35534/18]
• 2018-01-23
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the properties and areas in South Dublin County Council to be included in a project (details supplied); the timeframe for the provision of improved broadband to these properties and areas; and if he will provide the same information regarding the additional 90 properties that were forwarded by South Dublin County Council to his Department as part of the additional 20,000 properties to be included under the scheme. [3211/18]
• 2017-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason deeds of transfer, family home declarations and other sworn declarations were excluded from the terms of the Electronic Commerce Act 2000 as set out in section 10(1)(b) and (c); and his plans to apply the terms of section 10(2)(a), (b) and (c) to these types of documents to facilitate a more efficient process of home sales. [48026/17]
• 2017-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to amend the Electronic Commerce Act 2000 or amend the regulations related to this Act to allow for documents such as deeds or transfer, family home declarations and other sworn declarations to be signed electronically rather than with a written signature. [48027/17]
• 2017-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to undertake a small controlled trial or pilot project to examine the viability of allowing documents such as deeds or transfer, family home declarations and other sworn declarations to be signed electronically rather than with a written signature in order to inform his Department of the merit of a wider amendment of the regulations relating to section 10 of the Electronic Commerce Act 2000. [48028/17]
• 2017-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the aftercare costs, some in excess of €35 million, facing some local authorities for closed landfills; and if these costs were recouped in full from the waste operators that used these landfills. [46285/17]
• 2017-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if local authorities subsidised waste operators for the aftercare costs incurred by the authorities due to closed landfills; and if they applied the polluter pays principle and other relevant national and EU legislation when calculating full cost recovery. [46286/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance if he will make the provision of electric car charging points in work car parks exempt from being treated as a benefit-in-kind for PAYE, PRSI and USC purposes to encourage the use of electric cars for environmental purposes by more employers and employees. [34957/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when consultation on the draft legislative provisions for his departmental remit to transpose Directive 2014/52/EU introducing substantial amendments to the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive 2011/92/EU will be provided; when such provisions are expected to be initiated (details supplied); the basis on which these provisions will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34300/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin 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. [34279/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin 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 introducing substantial amendments to the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive 2011/92/EU will be provided; when such provisions are expected to be initiated (details supplied); the basis on which these provisions will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34299/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when consultation on the draft legislative provisions for his departmental remit to transpose Directive 2014/52/EU introducing substantial amendments to the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive 2011/92/EU will be provided; when such provisions are expected to be initiated (details supplied); the basis on which these provisions will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34298/17]
• 2017-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated costs for adapting information technology systems to include Eircode for departmental mail; the number of Departments that have adapted their information technology systems to implement Eircode; and the cost to the exchequer in this regard. [27007/17]
• 2017-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the problem of television and home Internet companies deliberately preventing or making it difficult for persons to exit from their contracts, despite the contract term having expired; the State agency responsible for dealing with complaints on such matters; the legislation that regulates such contract terminations and consumer rights; and his plans to consider a review and strengthen the current legislation and consumer protection rules regarding same. [25460/17]
• 2017-05-18
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has examined the report on the regulation and inspection of gas installers operating here that was published by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications in July 2015; and if he will appoint an independent expert or consultant to conduct a thorough investigation of the extent of illegal activity regarding gas boilers being installed by persons operating outside of the law as recommended in the report. [23664/17]
• 2017-04-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 432 of 21 March 2017 (details supplied) and in view of the fact that the European Commission is launching ECJ court action against the Government for breaches of this directive, his plans in addition to what is already contained in the Irish Water capital investment programme to bring these plants into line with the State’s legal and environmental obligations. [17086/17]
• 2016-12-08
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the pay-by-weight waste collection system will commence; if he has satisfied himself that the necessary preparations have been undertaken across the State; and if he is considering scrapping plans for its introduction. [39263/16]
• 2016-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is anything prohibiting local councils from continuing to grant licences to small pay-by-bag domestic waste collectors while he is examining the future of pay-by-weight regulations following the suspension of their introduction by him earlier this year; and if he will consider the position of small pay-by-bag operators that currently operate in parts of rural Ireland when reviewing the pay-by-weight regulations. [37642/16]
• 2016-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding that will be made available to Galway County Council for the purpose of developing a recycling centre in Casla, Connemara, which has been planned by it in conjunction with Údarás na Gaeltachta; the steps that need to be taken to apply and draw down such funding; and the amount of the cost his Department would fund. [34509/16]
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has been consulted on and sanctioned the harvesting of seaweed in Roundstone Bay, County Galway by means of new technology provided by a company (details supplied) to local harvesters; and if all the relevant licences were in place and environmental impact statements completed before the harvesting began. [28541/16]
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress made by his Department to implement the recommendations in the May 2015 report of the former Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht on developing the seaweed industry in Ireland. [28543/16]
• 2016-07-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of Part V units that have been acquired by each local authority in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date; the average price of these units broken down by county, unit size and development size in three categories: developments of 50 units or fewer, developments of more than 50 units but fewer than 100 units and developments of more than 100 units; the number of Part V units across the State for each year; and the average cost to the State of these units for each year. [23015/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the average length of time for social housing projects to complete the four stage approval process; and the average length of time to complete each of the four stages. [22316/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the time to complete the four stage approval process for social housing at St. Finian’s Avenue, Lucan, County Dublin. [22317/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the time to complete the four stage approval process for the 11 social housing units at St. Mark's Green, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. [22318/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the time to complete the four stage approval process for the 18 social housing units in the Mayfield Estate, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. [22319/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the time to complete the four stage approval process for the 37 social housing units at Lett’s Field, Dublin 22. [22320/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of guidelines issued by his office and that of his predecessor under section 28 1(b) of the Planning and Development Act as amended in 2015; and the subject matter of each set of guidelines issued under this section. [22378/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that was realised in efficiency savings since the creation of Irish Water for 2015 and 2016. [22626/16]
• 2016-07-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has taken a decision to have those households whose income is above the specified eligibility thresholds removed from local authority housing lists as part of the 2016 social housing assessment; if this decision has been explicitly highlighted by departmental officials in recent briefing meetings with local authority staff in preparation for the social housing assessment 2016; if so, the level of excess household income which would determine whether a household that is €1 above the threshold, a nominal amount above the threshold, or a percentage above the threshold would be removed from the list; the number of households which were removed from the local authority lists in 2013 for having exceeded the household income threshold; and the reason he is not taking into account high rent levels, high child care costs or other household costs when making the income assessments. [22753/16]
• 2016-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will issue guidelines to local authorities for the application of social contracts to council capital projects, such as social housing or libraries. [20534/16]
• 2016-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of moneys lost to local authorities in 2015 from the de-rating of Irish Water; the compensation made to local authorities through increases in the local government fund to offset these losses in 2015 in tabular form; and if these payments will be made again in 2016 and on a rolling basis into the future. [20528/16]
• 2016-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total savings to Irish Water arising from the de-rating of the utility in 2015; the total savings to the utility arising from de-rating in 2016; the portion of the total efficiency savings the de-rating saving represents by Irish Water in 2015 and 2016; and the rationale for de-rating Irish Water when other public utilities are not de-rated. [20529/16]
• 2016-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider, as part of the housing action plan, providing local authorities with five- or six-year funding programmed for social housing rather than the three-year funding cycle that is currently in place. [20530/16]
• 2016-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there are any barriers to local authorities including social contracts, similar to those used by central government in Grangegorman or Irish Water in capital projects, such as social housing construction or provision of other local services, such as libraries. [20531/16]
• 2016-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to consider reinstating the 90:10 ratio for funding for local government homeless services as in many local authorities the funding ratio has slipped to 70:30. [20533/16]
• 2016-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 5 July 2016 on funding allocated to the mortgage to rent scheme in the years 2013 to 2016 to date, the number of units approved housing bodies and local authorities acquired, by year, in tabular form. [21022/16]
• 2016-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will publish his action plan for housing and make arrangements with the Government Chief Whip to ensure there is a debate on it in Dáil Éireann prior to the 2016 summer recess. [21034/16]
• 2016-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total underspend from the Irish Water metering programme; and if these funds can be reallocated to other areas of capital expenditure by Irish Water in 2016 and 2017. [21249/16]
• 2016-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown for each of the years 2015 to 2021 of the Irish Water capital programme funding by equity and debt portions in nominal and percentage terms. [20246/16]
• 2016-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount allocated to the mortgage to rent scheme, per year, since the scheme was introduced in 2012; and the amount of this allocation that has been spent per year since 2012, in tabular form. [19253/16]
• 2016-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to provide the figures on increases under the housing assistance programme taking effect from 1 July 2016 by county in tabular form. [19778/16]
• 2016-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the action he will take prior to publishing his action plan for housing to deal with the rising level of family homelessness, given the dramatic rise of 86% in the past 12 months, that 2,177 children are homeless, that an increasing number of families are being forced to self-accommodate and that local authorities are turning away an increasing number of families who are seeking emergency accommodation. [18770/16]
• 2016-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the action he is taking to ensure that the Irish Glass Bottle site in Dublin 4 will have the maximum level of social and affordable housing possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18480/16]
• 2016-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his understanding on the status of a resolution for Longboat Quay residents; and his plans to introduce comprehensive building regulations so this does not happen again. [18479/16]
• 2016-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the nature of legal advice both his Department and Irish Water have received relating to article 9.4 of the Water Framework Directive and the derogation within; and if he will publish this legal advice. [18489/16]
• 2016-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to deal with price increases in the event that at the end of the 12-month freeze on bin charge increases, bin companies intend to proceed with significant price hikes. [18485/16]
• 2016-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government where the functions relating to waste management, regulation of waste collection companies and regulation of recycling facilities will be located after the division of the existing Department of Environment, Community and Local Government into two new Departments. [18001/16]
• 2016-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the status of infringement action by the European Union Commission against Ireland on the State’s failure to comply with the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive; the specific actions required to be taken to meet compliance requirements with the directive; and the amount it could cost to meet the requirements of the directive. [18129/16]
• 2016-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of design, build and operate water treatment water plants and the cost of these public-private partnerships. [18130/16]
• 2016-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount provided to councillors for conference expenses by local authority in each of the years 2012 to 2015, inclusive, in tabular form. [18207/16]
• 2016-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to the State and a breakdown by local authority of the representational payment made to councillors in each of the years 2012 to 2015, inclusive, in tabular form. [18208/16]
• 2016-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to the State and a breakdown by local authority of the annual allowance made to councillors in each of the years 2012 to 2015, in tabular form. [18209/16]
• 2016-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the composition of the €522 million, including what portion is expected to come from Exchequer funding and what portion from Government borrowing or equity or debt financing, regarding the €522 million allocated for Irish Water capital investment in 2016, as per the Irish Water business plan, in tabular form. [18357/16]
• 2016-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the composition of this €533 million, including what portion is expected to come from Exchequer funding and what portion from Government borrowing or equity or debt financing, regarding the €533 million allocated for Irish Water capital investment in 2017, as per the Irish Water business plan, in tabular form. [18358/16]
• 2016-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he provided to local authorities for homeless services and its percentage of the total local Government spending on homeless services in each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17179/16]
• 2016-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the local authorities due to be revalued in 2016 as a result of the Valuation Office's global revaluation for commercial rates; and the net effect on local authority revenue of each revaluation that has been carried out or which he expects to be carried out in 2016, by local authority, in tabular form. [16287/16]
• 2016-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the national rents framework and when he will commence and complete the review of differential rent schemes, as mentioned in the current programme for Government. [15725/16]
• 2016-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the functions and responsibilities that will be transferred from his Department to the Department of housing, planning and local government. [15733/16]
• 2016-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he will take to ensure the needs of persons with disabilities are incorporated into future housing policies, as per the programme for Government; and when he will implement this commitment. [15915/16]
• 2016-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a new charging regime by companies (details supplied) is in line with recent regulations agreed by his predecessor; if he will review the regulations, given the significantly higher cost of bin services these companies have charged under this new regime. [15937/16]
• 2016-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the new Department of housing, planning and local government will officially be established. [15943/16]
• 2016-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will offer compensation from the local government fund in 2017, as was offered in 2016; the amount he will offer, by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15962/16]
• 2016-06-08
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total annual allocation for housing assistance payment tenancies for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 in tabular form; and the total number of tenancies funded or expected to be funded for each year. [14258/16]
• 2016-06-08
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total annual allocation for rental accommodation scheme tenancies for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 in tabular form; and the total number of tenancies funded or expected to be funded for each year. [14259/16]
• 2016-06-08
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the rationale for excluding Part V properties from the new tenant purchase scheme. [14328/16]
• 2016-06-01
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government how he will address the first ground of the Court of Justice of the European Union's judgment in case C-50/09 in terms of legislative provisions in the area of water discharge licensing, and to ensure full compliance with Articles 2 to 4, inclusive, of the environmental impact assessment directive relating to planning and licensing decisions for wastewater treatment plants. [13906/16]
• 2016-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the 1,477 social housing current expenditure programme units (details supplied) operational in 2015. [12765/16]
• 2016-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money spent by his Department on media advertising from March 2011 to February 2016, inclusive, outlining the media organisation, newspaper, radio, television or any other forms of media to which advertisement fees were paid by his Department; and the amount of money paid per year to each individual media organisation in tabular form. [12885/16]
• 2016-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount spent by local authorities on media advertising from March 2011 to February 2016, by media organisation, that is, newspaper, radio, television, or any other forms of media to which advertisement fees were paid by his Department; and the amount paid per year, to each individual media organisation, in tabular form. [13469/16]
• 2016-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government of the 4,068 adults and the 2,121 children recorded as accessing local authority managed emergency accommodation during the week of 18 to 24 April 2016, how many were placed by the new communities unit; the number of these who had a housing needs assessment; and if they are on the social housing waiting list. [13528/16]
• 2016-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount his Department spent on local authority housing in 2015, and the number of units it delivered in tabular form. [12019/16]
• 2016-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount he has allocated for local authority housing and how many units he will deliver in 2016. [12020/16]
• 2016-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding allocated to and drawn down by associated housing bodies and the number of units delivered in 2015 in tabular form. [12021/16]
• 2016-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he has allocated to associated housing bodies and the number of units he will deliver in 2016 in tabular form. [12022/16]
• 2016-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount spent on housing adaptation grants in 2015 in tabular form. [12023/16]
• 2016-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he has allocated for housing adaptation grants in 2016. [12024/16]
• 2016-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount his Department spent on Traveller accommodation in 2015. [12025/16]
• 2016-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount his Department spent on the provision of emergency homeless accommodation in 2015. [12029/16]
• 2016-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he has allocated for the provision of emergency homeless accommodation in 2016. [12030/16]
• 2016-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the net cost and savings in abolishing water charges and the water conservation grant including its administration costs, based on the full payment of domestic charges. [12136/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of the modular units in Poppintree in Ballymun, Dublin 9; and if the modular units represent value for money or if the money would be better spent purchasing homes on the open market. [11832/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the net cost of the abolition of Irish Water and water charges. [11833/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the river basin management plan, including if he will amend it to reflect the fact that the majority of those elected to the Dáil were elected on an anti-water charges platform and that the derogation under Article 9 of the Water Framework Directive makes no specific requirement for cost recovery to rely on individual consumption. [11595/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government why responsibility for delivering 80% of social housing, as outlined in Social Housing Strategy 2020, is being handed over to the private sector; and if he will review this policy. [11596/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount he has allocated to spend on Traveller accommodation in 2016. [12026/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the terms of reference of the expert panel, chaired by a person (details supplied), which is investigating problems in concrete block work in counties Donegal and Mayo, will allow it to recommend financial assistance to families already forced to carry out remediation works to ensure the safety of the family home. [11243/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to amend the terms of reference of the expert panel, chaired by a person (details supplied) which is investigating the problems in concrete block work in counties Donegal and Mayo, to allow it to investigate problems in concrete block work in publicly owned buildings such as council housing and schools; and if the terms of reference allow the expert panel to recommend a redress scheme similar to the pyrite redress scheme. [11244/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of planning applications and of units included in the Social Housing Strategy 2020 that have been delayed due to delays in the planning process. [11346/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the length of time the procurement and tendering process took for each of the social housing projects included in Social Housing 2020 that have reached construction phase. [11347/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided to local authorities for Traveller-specific accommodation, and the amount drawn down and the number of tenancies this supported, by local authority, for each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date, in tabular form. [11536/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided for disability grants, mobility grants and adaptation grants, and the amount drawn down, by local authority for each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [11537/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided for cyclical maintenance of social housing stock and the amount drawn down, by local authority for each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [11538/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided under the rental accommodation scheme, the amount drawn down and the number of tenancies this supported, by local authority for each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [11539/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided, the amount drawn down and the number of tenancies this supported under the housing assistance payment scheme, by local authority, for each year since the scheme commenced, in tabular form. [11540/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided for long-term leasing accommodation, the amount drawn down and the number of tenancies this supported by local authority for each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [11541/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided for accommodation provided by approved housing bodies, the amount drawn down and the number of tenancies this supported by local authority for each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [11542/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if approved housing bodies have an obligation to register their tenancies with the Private Residential Tenancies Board; when this obligation came into effect; and the implications of this obligation on the security of tenants with respect to the four-year tenancy rule. [11811/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the average of cost of one, two, three, and four bed local authority new build units on the basis of costings submitted to his Department by local authorities over the past 12 months. [11873/16]
• 2016-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the 35,000 social housing units outlined in the social housing strategy 2020 by tenancy type, including local authority units that are refurbished, purchased on the open market, Part V, new build, leased where the local authority owns the units and leased where the units remain in private ownership; approved housing bodies units that are refurbished, purchased on the open market, Part V, new build by local authority, leased where the approved housing bodies own the units and leased where the units remain in private ownership; and units under the rental accommodation scheme. [11874/16]
• 2016-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to set down in tabular form the categories of social protection recipients who are automatically excluded from the 2016 tenant purchase scheme. [11020/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of Irish Water’s new ten-year office lease, including why cheaper rental locations in, and outside, County Dublin were not assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9932/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the retirement plan of the former managing director of Irish Water, including the specific sum this person (detail supplied) will receive on officially retiring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9933/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether parents with joint custody and a social housing eligibility is entitled to be placed on the housing list with additional bedrooms to facilitate overnight stays with their children; and the guidelines he provides to local authorities on this matter. [10463/16]
• 2016-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his position on the proposal by the Irish League of Credit Unions to provide loan finance for the provision of social housing; why he has not taken up these proposals to date and when he will [9861/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of claimants under the rent supplement scheme who have been transferred to the housing assistance payment scheme, by month, since January 2015. [9245/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the capital allocation for social housing for each of the years 2000 to 2016 to date, in tabular form. [9226/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the allocation for social housing in each of the years 2000 to 2016, in tabular form. [9227/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the capital expenditure for social housing in each of the years 2000 to 2016 to date, in tabular form. [9228/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the expenditure on social housing in each of the years 2000 to 2016 to date, in tabular form. [9229/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government for a progress report on the €400 million allocation in the Social Housing Strategy 2020 for a new Housing Finance Agency; the structure, the individuals and organisations involved; the number of meetings held; the number of housing projects agreed, and rejected; the quantum of additional moneys leveraged; the spend to date; the number of houses built or bought; and the number of new tenancies created, in respect of this Agency. [9230/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government for a progress report on the €300 million allocation in the Social Housing Strategy 2020, for a housing public private partnership; the structure of, the individuals and organisations involved; the number of meetings held; the number of housing projects agreed, and rejected; the quantum of additional moneys leveraged; the spend to date; the number of houses built or bought; and the number of new tenancies created, in respect of this public private partnership. [9231/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the capital allocation for social housing for each of the years 2015 to 2020, in tabular form; and the expenditure in 2015 and in 2016 to date. [9232/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the membership of the social housing strategy oversight group; the number of meetings it has held since it was established; and to provide the Houses of Oireachtas, with copies of the minutes of its meetings. [9233/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the membership of the Dublin social housing delivery taskforce; the number of meetings it has held since it was established; and to provide the Houses of the Oireachtas, with copies of the minutes of its meetings. [9234/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government for a progress report on the cost rental pilot project, as committed to in the Social Housing Strategy 2020. [9235/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government for a progress report on the National Asset Management Agency special purpose vehicle. detailed in the Social Housing Strategy 2020, including the names of the persons and organisations involved; the number of meetings held; the number of units produced via the special purpose vehicle; and the number of new tenancies created, since the special purpose vehicle was established. [9236/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number and cost of housing adaptation grants provided, by grant type, and by the number of persons on the waiting lists, in each of the years 2000 to 2016 to date, in tabular form. [9237/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households, persons and children in emergency accommodation for more than six months, 12 months, 18 months, two years, four years and five years, in tabular form. [9238/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the social housing new build projects he has agreed, but which have not yet been completed, by unit, by size and by number of bedrooms in tabular form. [9239/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if involuntary long-term homelessness will be brought to an end by the end of 2016, as committed to in the Government's February 2013 homeless policy statement. [9240/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will proceed with annual housing needs assessments from 2016; and the additional resources he is making available to local authorities to deal with the significant administrative burden this will involve for them. [9241/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff and full-time equivalents working in local authority housing departments, by local authority in tabular form. [9242/16]
• 2016-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff and full-time equivalents working in local authority homeless sections by local authority in tabular form. [9243/16]
• 2016-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider applications from local authorities for social housing new-build programmes of 50 units or more; and if there is a maximum development size he is willing to consider. [9043/16]
• 2016-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the stages of the procurement process he and local authorities used for the provision of local authority housing from pre-planning through to construction; and the average length of time this process takes for any individual build project, based on all local authority new build housing projects that have been completed during 2014 and 2015. [9035/16]
• 2016-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the fast-track planning and procurement process used in the rapid build projects in Poppintree in Ballymun in Dublin 11. [9036/16]
• 2016-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if the fast-track procurement process used for the Ballymun rapid build project could be used for standard local authority social housing new builds, where Part 8 planning permission is already in place; and if not, the reason. [9037/16]
• 2016-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment tenancies in place as of 1 April 2016, by new tenancies, and by existing tenancies, where the State subsidy has changed from rent supplement to housing assistance payment. [9038/16]
• 2016-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of the 2,000 properties transferred to social housing from the National Asset Management Agency or from National Asset Management Agency debtors that have been tenanted, as of 1 April 2016. [9039/16]
• 2016-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the progress of the targets for 2015 to 2018 announced on 1 April 2015 (details supplied), and the number of units delivered, that is tenanted on 1 April 2016, by local authority, in tabular form. [9040/16]
• 2016-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the details of the 13,000 keys handed over under the social housing strategy in 2015 and in 2016 to date, by tenancy type, including local authority new build, refurbishment, acquisition and re-let; new Part V allocation; approved housing body new build and relet; new and renewed tenancy under the rental accommodation scheme; new tenancy under the housing assistance payment scheme, old tenancy transferred from the rent supplement scheme to the housing assistance payment scheme, and any other tenancy type not included in this list. [9041/16]
• 2016-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to the Exchequer if all moneys paid to Irish Water in domestic water charges up to 1 April 2016 were fully refunded by the State. [9140/16]
• 2016-04-26
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the introduction of a directly elected mayor for the city and county of Dublin; and the work his Department has undertaken on this matter since the consultation with the four Dublin local authorities in 2013. [7997/16]
• 2016-04-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when works will commence on properties at Aylmer Heath in Newcastle in County Dublin which are included in his pyrite scheme; the works that will take place; and the timescale for their completion. [6514/16]
• 2016-04-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the regulations and guidelines he has provided to local authorities for the purposes of operating their housing assistance payment transfer lists; when he provided these; if he has not provided them, the reason therefore; and given that housing assistance payment has been in operation since January 2015, the reason for the delay in resolving this matter. [6601/16]
• 2016-04-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of his contacts with the Department of Social Protection in respect of Intreo's decision to issue letters to recipients of long-term rent supplement stating that their payments due may be suspended if they do not transfer to the housing assistance payment. [6602/16]