145. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to outline his proposed policy response to the recently reported 2.9% increase in greenhouse gas emissions in Q1 2025 compared to Q1 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46039/25]
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146. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the 2.9% increase in greenhouse gas emissions in Q1 2025 compared to Q1 2024 as reported by the EPA recently renders Ireland at risk of non-compliance with the legally binding sectoral ceilings under the Climate Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46040/25]
147. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he has engaged with or met the EPA following their recent report of a 2.9% increase in greenhouse gas emissions in Q1 2025 compared to Q1 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46041/25]
148. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for an update on his Department’s identification of opportunities for additional peatlands for enhanced rehabilitation, as committed to in the National Peatlands Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46043/25]
149. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for an update on his Department’s assessment of the contributing factors that led to three major peatland failures in 2020, as committed to in the National Peatlands Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46046/25]
150. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for an update on the scoping study report on mapping peat depth and carbon storage as committed to in the National Peatlands Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46047/25]
151. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to outline how a State-led FSRU would be compliant with the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46048/25]
152. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the timeline and cost for the development of the State-led strategic gas emergency reserve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46049/25]
153. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment when his Department expects to finalise policy and legislation on the operation of a State-led strategic emergency gas reserve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46050/25]
154. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide figures on the uptake of the low-cost loan scheme for 2025 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46051/25]
155. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide updated figures on the installation of solar panels in homes, new and retrofitted, to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46052/25]
156. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide updated figures on the homes retrofitted to B2 or above, with a year-by-year breakdown to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46053/25]
157. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to outline the status of the Marine Protected Areas Legislation and whether a decision has been made to retain it as stand-alone legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46084/25]
158. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will publish the work done by his Department to date on the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46085/25]
159. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the status of the investigation into the mass fish mortality on the River Blackwater in north Cork; the preliminary Marine Institute test results; the suspected pollutant class; the affected river length; the estimated mortality; and if a compensation scheme for angling clubs and river stewardship groups is being prepared. [46129/25]
160. Deputy Seán Fleming asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if there are any changes to the SEAI grants for solar panels for houses built after 2020; the up-to-date position on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46169/25]
161. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to review the possibility of increasing the number of water refill stations available in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46180/25]
162. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the overall budget for Inland Fisheries Ireland for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46200/25]
163. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the amount of Inland Fisheries Ireland's overall budget that was allocated for staffing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46201/25]
164. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46358/25]
165. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment his reasoning for not including floor insultation in the better energy warmer homes scheme (details supplied); if he has any plans to include it going forward; the supports if any available to those who wish to install underfloor insultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46360/25]
166. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the immediate measures that will be taken to relieve households and businesses in Cork from disproportionately high energy costs, given the rising cost of electricity bills driven by grid charges. [46379/25]
167. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the means by which he is planning to synchronise local infrastructure investment in Cork to maximise benefits in energy resilience, cost relief, and renewable uptake, with the Celtic Interconnector due for completion in 2028. [46382/25]
168. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if there are specific development guidelines for the development of large-scale fossil-fuel-bio-fuel powered energy projects similar to the 2006 wind energy guidelines (details supplied); if not, whether his Department have any plans to develop or draft guidelines for such developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. […
169. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the immediate investigatory and remediation measures that are being deployed in response to the largest-ever fish kill in the River Blackwater; and the means by which affected communities and ecosystems will be supported. [46396/25]