Parliamentary questions

229. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the projected cost impact of the renewable heating obligation on households reliant on home heating oil, particularly in rural areas. [15725/26]

230. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether he plans to publish a trajectory of obligation rates beyond year two to provide certainty to industry and ensure the scheme delivers meaningful emissions reductions. [15726/26]

231. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether he will consider revising the proposed obligation rates to ensure the renewable heating obligation delivers genuine decarbonisation while protecting consumers from unnecessary cost increases. [15727/26]

232. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 19 February 2026, if the information requested can be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16135/26]

233. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to outline the actions his Department is taking to provide for the safe and environmentally responsible disposal of nitrous oxide canisters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16144/26]

7. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide details of all occasions in which he or his predecessors exercised the power conferred on them under Section 15(3) of the Climate Action & Low Carbon Development Act (2015), which states that ‘the relevant Minister may, from time to time, give a direction to a relevant body requiring it to adopt such m…

8. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of homes retrofitted, and heat pumps installed to date as part of the National Retrofitting Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15281/26]

9. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the reason grant applications for reverse vending machines have been closed; and whether grants will reopen for new businesses wishing to take part in this scheme. [15300/26]

10. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the proportion of Ireland’s climate finance that is delivered in the form of grants versus loans [15401/26]

11. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will support an application under the climate action scheme by a club in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15515/26]

12. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for an update on the land use review; the stage it is currently at; when it is expected to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15564/26]

13. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 250 of 27 January 2026, to provide an update on the 27 actions, highlighting which have been completed, which are ongoing and which have yet to be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15566/26]

14. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will introduce an EPR charge for mattresses to avoid dumping in the landscape and to promote a circular economy, given that mattresses are not accepted at the Dublin Waste-to-Energy facility, and given the very successful experience of mattress EPR schemes in France, Belgium and the Netherlands; and if he …

15. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment his views that balcony solar power generation should be promoted in Ireland given that 2 million systems have been successfully plugged in to German balconies over the past nine years without planning permission or professional installation; if he will discuss this with the relevant authorities with a view to am…

16. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will amend the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025 to ensure that the EPA make decisions within the specified periods, rather than merely endeavour to do so, in order to align with the requirement in the Planning & Development Act 2024 that An Coimisiún Pleanála shall make decisions within…

17. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment for an update on any and all actions taken in relation to Ireland's withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty since the decision agreement to withdraw by the previous Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15592/26]

18. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment when he will publish the Climate Action Plan 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15598/26]

19. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to highlight the actions being taken by his Department to tackle the 30 barriers highlighted in the Joint Committee on Climate, Energy and the Environment report on the Barriers to Achieving Climate Targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15599/26]

20. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the way in which he intends on paying expected fines of between €3 and €26 billion for missing Ireland's EU climate and energy targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15600/26]

21. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to set out the policy in his Department regarding the use of artificial intelligence; whether AI is used or permitted in drawing up policy documents, speeches, answers to parliamentary questions, press releases or for other official documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15610/26]

138. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the measures he is taking to reduce the price of energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14765/26]

139. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will consider bringing forward a prioritisation framework for grid connections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14766/26]

140. Deputy Richard O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to confirm that his attention has been drawn to the HSE’s 2017 Position Paper on Wind Turbines and Public Health being withdrawn; to outline when, if at all, his Department engaged with the HSE regarding its withdrawal, particularly in light of his Department’s responsibilities in relation to environmental no…

141. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment in relation to private wires, the charging methodology that will be implemented; and the safeguards that will he introduce to ensure that all of the costs of providing the original grid connection will be recovered by the ESB Networks, and that these costs are not passed on to other customers. [14767/26]

142. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide an update on the work of the national energy affordability task force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14498/26]