Parliamentary questions

218. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of staff within his Department and its agencies who hold a formal procurement qualification or certification (for example, CIPS, NFQ Level 6 or higher in procurement, EU public procurement training), broken down by organisation, in tabular form. [33653/25]

219. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his Department and each agency or public body under its remit uses a formal contract management system or procurement tracking platform; to list the systems in use; and if they are centrally monitored or independently operated. [33671/25]

220. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if an organisation (details supplied) which works to address issues of energy poverty, would be suitable for inclusion on the Cross Governmental Task Force on Energy Affordability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33717/25]

221. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the way in which he plans to advance the Programme for Government commitment to explore ways to use surplus renewable energy to help reduce energy poverty, ensuring that renewable energy benefits all communities; if measures to achieve this commitment will be set out in the Climate Action Plan 2026; and if he w…

222. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will consider announcing a policy recommending that, going forward, all devices, heat pumps, batteries and immersion controllers being newly installed should be connected and support demand flexibility, and end the use of 'dumb', unconnected devices in new homes or for upgrades; and if he will make a stat…

223. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the Irish Social Climate Plan will provide support to energy communities, to promote collective actions to tackle energy poverty and boost energy efficiency, also to subsidise the free participation of energy vulnerable households in energy communities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the m…

224. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for a full list of all documents, reports, strategies, and resources that have been “unpublished” by his Department over the past ten years (details supplied), including all such materials that have been “unpublished” by divisions, sections and units of his Department that became part of the Minister’s Depa…

225. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 15 October 2024, the status of that report; its findings and his views on the need to municipalise waste collection. [33854/25]

226. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if there are plans to revise the solar panel grant to reflect a higher grant allowable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33908/25]

227. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the infrastructure projects being built or commissioned by his Department that are currently late in their delivery; and the infrastructure projects currently over budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34086/25]

228. 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]

207. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether local authorities have the legal authority to request proof of lawful waste disposal by residents in the form of receipts or bank statements, particularly in cases where there is no evidence of public or private bin service usage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33242/25]

208. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if there are statutory planning guidelines for the construction of anaerobic digestors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33275/25]

209. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide an update of all the actions in the energy security review, broken down by action; the breakdown of completed actions, of actions still in progress, and those that have yet to commence; and the breakdown of estimated timeline for delivery of each action, in tabular form. [33356/25]

210. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 10 June 2025, to provide a breakdown of the revenue generated from the temporary solidarity contribution that was used to support measures for final energy customers, introduced in Budgets 2024 and 2025. [33493/25]

211. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of people working full-time and part-time in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department in roles that are fully on-site, hybrid, or fully remote from 2022 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33496/25]

9. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his Department is developing a scheme to incentivise commercial bus operators to convert their fleet from diesel engines to electric engines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32883/25]

10. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide figures on the uptake of the low-cost loan scheme since it was rolled out in 2024, broken down by quarter, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32925/25]

11. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide updated figures on the installation of solar panels in homes, both new and retrofitted, with a year-by-year breakdown since 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32926/25]

12. 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 since 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32927/25]

13. 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]

14. 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]

162. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the staffing and resources available to the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority are sufficient to enable the agency to adequately perform its statutory functions to validate, assess and issue maritime area consent and marine usage licences in a timely manner. [32827/25]

163. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the actions his Department has considered to reduce the cost of retrofitting existing housing stock. [31869/25]

164. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if there are plans to review the warmer homes scheme to allow greater flexibility for householders. [31870/25]