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Michael Murphy Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
26. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the performance delivery agreement, or any related agreements between the Department and SEAI, specify consequences or corrective-action mechanisms for underperformance by SEAI or contracted installers under the warmer homes scheme; and if he will provide details of any such provisions. [67333/25]
Michael Murphy Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
27. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will publish the current performance delivery agreement, and any associated service-level or performance-monitoring documents, relating to the warmer homes scheme; and if not, the reason for withholding same. [67334/25]
Sorca Clarke Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
28. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will clarify the communication processes in place to ensure that households on the Priority Services Register are made aware of their eligibility for government funded solar PV installation. [67430/25]
Pa Daly Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
29. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide an update on the land use review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67452/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
30. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the type of training provided to staff within his Department in the use of, or understanding of artificial intelligence; if a programme is planned for all staff on their obligations under the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67457/25]
Joe Cooney Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
31. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will provide details of the number of SMEs that have participated in the business energy upgrade scheme since its inception; and a breakdown of the measures supported, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67622/25]
Conor Sheehan Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
32. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment his plans to change the rules governing the logbook for salmon or sea trout angling, allowing anglers to retrospectively produce a logbook as was the case previously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67681/25]
Mark Wall Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
33. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the average waiting time for the warmer home scheme currently; the average waiting time for each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67750/25]
Mark Wall Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
34. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of warmer home schemes completed to date in 2025, by county; the number per county for the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67751/25]
Frankie Feighan Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
35. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the progress made over the past 12 months on each of his Department’s Programme for Government commitments, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67817/25]
Micheál Carrigy Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
36. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the date on which the Government-approved scheme to provide free 2kWp solar PV systems to Priority Services Register (PSR) households was formally approved; the date on which ESB Networks and energy suppliers were instructed to begin notifications to eligible households; the number of households notified to date; and the number of i…
Micheál Carrigy Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
37. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to establish a retrospective or exceptional circumstances mechanism to provide reimbursement or partial compensation to Priority Services Register households who installed solar PV systems at their own expense before receiving notification of their eligibility for the free Government-funded scheme; and if he will make a statement on…
Barry Ward Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
38. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his attention has been drawn to the work of a charity (details supplied); the actions he will take to ensure they are supported financially to ensure that they can continue their vital work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67852/25]
Barry Ward Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
39. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his attention has been drawn to the funding shortfall for a charity (details supplied); if he could outline any funding options available to them to ensure that they can remain in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67855/25]
Barry Ward Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
40. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will engage with a charity (details supplied) in relation to the long-term funding of their work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67858/25]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
41. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for a comprehensive overview of all the legislative changes, including secondary legislation, introducing a for-profit mandate to the Electricity Supply Board since 1990. [67866/25]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
42. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for a comprehensive overview of all the legislative changes, including secondary legislation, unbundling any previously bundled Electricity Supply Board services since 1990. [67867/25]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
43. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for a comprehensive overview of all the legislative changes, including secondary legislation, underpinning the privatisation or sale of Electricity Supply Board assets or services since 1990. [67868/25]
Carol Nolan Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
44. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the details of the revenue generated to date by the waste recovery levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67981/25]
Pa Daly Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
45. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his Department has carried out an assessment on the costs associated with the programme for Government commitment to invest in waste sorting technology in the material recovery facility network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68028/25]
Pa Daly Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
46. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his Department has engaged with any industry stakeholders, including waste management companies, in relation to the Programme for Government commitment to invest in waste sorting technology in the material recovery facility network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68029/25]
Pa Daly Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
47. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether his Department intends to introduce a requirement for the publication of annual, material-specific recycling data under the Whole of Government Circular Economy Strategy 2026-2028, in order to improve monitoring of progress towards national and EU recycling targets. [68030/25]
Roderic O'Gorman Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
48. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 34 of 15 December 2021, if the €75 payment towards helping people meet the cost of waste disposal in situations of long term incontinence pad use referred to was ever introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68108/25]
Pearse Doherty Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Climate
49. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the recently closed offshore wind auction, Tonn Nua is a minimum cost of all electricity produced or consumed; to provide details of the estimated minimum for electricity consumed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68130/25]
Robert Troy Written 2 Dec 2025 · to Defence
50. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Defence if she is aware that 58% of appointments at the rank of commandant in the Army Reserve are vacant; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the equivalent number of vacancies for the Naval Service Reserve is 50% and that there have been no promotions to this rank in over four years, despite qualified candidates having been interviewed; her views on the eff…