Questions

212. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the total amount available under Circular LU 03/2026 – Dog Waste Infrastructure; the number and value of applications received from each local authority; the number approved to date; the timeframe for all outstanding applications to be determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63867/26]

213. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the status of the funding application submitted by Monaghan County Council under Circular LU 03/2026 – Dog Waste Infrastructure; the amount sought by the council; when the application was received; when a decision will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63866/26]

214. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of diesel laundering waste incidents recorded by each local authority area in each of the years 2022 to date in 2026; the quantity of waste recovered in each county; the cost to the Exchequer of its treatment and disposal; the measures being taken by his Department, in conjunction with Revenue and An Garda Síochána, to reduc…

215. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his Department will continue to recoup in full all costs incurred by Monaghan County Council in dealing with diesel laundering waste, including any increased costs arising from the council’s new treatment and disposal contract; whether any ceiling applies to such recoupment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63864/26]

216. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the amount paid to Monaghan County Council in each of the years 2020 to 2025 for costs associated with the collection, storage, treatment and disposal of waste arising from illegal diesel laundering; the amount paid in respect of incidents occurring in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63863/26]

217. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the actions his Department is undertaking to assist in reducing the administrative load on small businesses having to engage with or register for packaging schemes in other EU countries prompted by the recent EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63325/26…

218. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 8 of 11 June 2026, the current position in relation to the introduction of legalisation regarding ESB lines and forestry corridors. [63958/26]

219. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if there is a co-ordinated programme across Government at local and national level to ensure the use of public buildings for the installation of solar panels. [64066/26]

220. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment when the feasibility study into transitioning Ireland's waste collection market from its current side-by-side licensing system to a franchise tendering system will be published. [64110/26]

221. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether consideration has been given to allowing all appropriate window and external door replacement works identified during an assessment under the warmer homes scheme to be completed as part of the one fully funded retrofit rather than requiring an eligible household to separately access another SEAI grant scheme for an external…

222. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the rationale for the replacement of qualifying windows being an eligible measure under the SEAI warmer homes scheme in certain circumstances, while the replacement of inefficient external doors is not included as an eligible measure; and whether an assessment has been undertaken of the energy-efficiency and heat-loss implications …

223. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment when the feasibility study on transitioning Ireland's waste collection market from its current side-by-side licensing system to a franchise tendering system will be published. [64112/26]

224. Deputy Paula Butterly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether consideration is being given, within current and future publicly funded residential retrofit programmes, to the increasing risk of overheating in homes during warmer summer conditions; and whether guidance issued for retrofits and heat pump installations includes assessment of future cooling requirements over the expected li…

225. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Defence the salary of the chief executive in each organisation and agency funded by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59557/26]

226. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Defence if the pursuit of financial liability arising from the undertaking set out in CCR 446 has been waived or stood down for an individual case in each of the years 2020 to 2026; and if so, the grounds for so doing. [59884/26]

227. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 7 May 2026, the costs incurred as a result of outsourcing functions formerly performed by the defence forces since 2020; by function outsourced; by year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60310/26]

233. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Defence the total cost to the State of the four Pilatus PC-12 aircraft; the list purchase price; a breakdown of the additional expenditure on upgrades, specialist equipment and spares that brought the total cost to the reported figure of almost €50 million; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60462/26]

234. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Defence the total flying hours recorded by the Pilatus PC-12 fleet in each year since entry into service in 2020; the availability rate of the fleet in each of those years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60468/26]

237. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Defence to confirm both in percentage and in clear monetary terms the value of the ‘levy’ on her Department's expenditure, that was required to be communicated to the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation on or before the deadline of 17 July 2026, (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60679/…

238. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Defence the total amount her Department and Departmental agencies have spent in 2025 and to date in 2026 on social media and web advertising; the proportion this is of her Department's advertising budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60932/26]

239. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Defence the number of FOI requests her Department, and each agency under her auspices, received in each year 2020 to 2025, and to date in 2026; the number that were refused on original decision; the number for which reviews were sought and the number of those reviews whereby the original decision was amended; the number for which subsequent appeals were submitted; the nu…

240. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Defence the healthcare and medical treatment entitlements of members of the Permanent Defence Force who are serving out of engagement; whether these entitlements differ from those of other serving members of the Permanent Defence Force; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61151/26]

241. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Defence the arrangements that apply where a serving member of the Permanent Defence Force is referred by a Defence Forces medical practitioner to a private hospital or specialist for investigation or treatment; the circumstances in which her Department meets the cost of such treatment; whether different arrangements apply to personnel serving out of engagement; and if she…

242. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Defence whether members of the Permanent Defence Force serving out of engagement are expected to obtain private health insurance to meet the cost of medical investigations or treatment arising from a referral by a Defence Forces medical practitioner; her Department’s policy in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61154/26]

243. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Defence the total amounts paid by her Department to private insurance companies for insurance for each year from 2016 to 2025 and to date in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61363/26]