Eoin Ó Broin

185. 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]

186. 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]

104. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of schemes and units funded through 5 programmes and funds (details supplied) that are waiting for departmental approval; and when these decisions will be made, in tabular form. [9850/25]

215. 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]

441. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new homes that are forecast to be delivered with the additional €450 million funding under funding streams (details supplied). [9312/25]

61. 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]

62. 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]

194. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs what screening measures were taken to ensure that Irish taxpayers money contributed to the Act in Support of Ammunition Production did not contribute to violations of international law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8008/25]

195. 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]

221. 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]

222. 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]

362. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to respond to the report published on 10 December 2024 (details supplied) which found a blind spot in the Climate Action Plan resulting from a failure to include direct demand for natural gas from connections to data centres; the engagement he has had with the EPA and SEAI on the matter; and the actions he proposes to address the blind spot. [7460/25]

399. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education the reason a graduate diploma course (details supplied) is not recognised by the Teaching Council; if any engagements are ongoing in relation to the course’s recognition for credits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7371/25]

451. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education 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. [8107/25]

531. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the social and affordable delivery streams that will receive the €450 million capital allocation approved by Cabinet on 18 February 2025; and the years in which this capital funding will be provided, in tabular form. [7701/25]

532. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the 3,000 social and affordable homes to be funded through the €450 million capital allocation approved by Cabinet on 18 February 2025 are to deliver homes within the existing Housing For All targets as set out in the 2021 Housing For All plan. [7702/25]

533. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will list the 3,000 social and affordable homes to be delivered through the €450 million capital allocation approved by Cabinet on 18 February 2025, broken down by the number of units in each local authority area and the social housing landlord associated with each scheme that is, named AHB or the relevant local authority, in tabular form. [7703/25]

534. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the proposed allocations schemes for cost rental housing including an update on whether any regulations have been issued by him and any scheme specific cost rental allocations schemes approved; and if so, where and for which category of worker/tenant. [7711/25]

535. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a list of all submissions received by his Department during the review of Part B of the Building Control Regulations and to publish the submissions on the Department's website or to provide copies of the submissions to the incoming members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage. [7712/25]

639. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice the position of sports facilities (details supplied) under new alcohol licence laws, and if he intends to amend the draft legislation to include these stadiums. [7351/25]

741. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status/leave to remain in direct provision centres giving them dates by which they would have to leave the direct provision centre or be moved to another centre; the number of such letters issued to date; the criteria for issuing such letters; the rationale for this policy; the number of people who have been moved on foot of these letters; and a breakdown of these moves, including information on, from where; and the location to which they have been moved. [7298/25]

810. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans to recognise medical alert dogs to afford them the same status as other assistance dogs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8081/25]

22. 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]

179. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to clarify that he does formally endorse, sign or otherwise support the Dublin Declaration of Scientists on the Societal Role of Livestock. [6778/25]

169. 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]