Parliamentary questions

125. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his Department intends to review the microgeneration support framework, including the clean export guarantee, in light of concerns that households generating renewable electricity are not receiving fair compensation relative to rising consumer tariffs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48836/26]

126. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will introduce transparency requirements obliging electricity suppliers to publish the methodology used to set their clean export guarantee rates, including how they account for wholesale prices, hedging, and balancing costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48837/26]

127. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of the funding provided and expanded measures under the national residential retrofitting plan (details supplied); the amount spent on each of these measures; the number of households this expanded support provided to, broken down by each measure and overall, in tabular form [48838/26]

128. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to outline in detail the new and expanded measures he is taking to "providing support for older people accessing home energy retrofits under the Healthy Age Friendly Homes initiative (details supplied) [48840/26]

129. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on new pilot schemes focusing on improving options for heat pump technology, including support for high temperature heat pumps; the amount of funding that has been allocated to these pilots; and the amount that has been spent broken down by pilot scheme (details supplied). [48841/26]

130. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on improved grants to support local authorities and approved housing bodies; the estimated funding allocated; the number of grants that have been awarded and the amount spent to date (details supplied) [48842/26]

131. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on the recent measures to increased heat pump grants to €12,500; the number of applications received on average per month before this change; the number received since the uplift was announced; the number allocated on average per month before the uplift was announced; the number allocated per month since the u…

132. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on his "greater focus on supports for undertaking retrofitting on an incremental basis"; to outline in detail the meaning of this in practice; and the way this has translated to delivery. [48844/26]

133. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on increased fixed grant levels for attic and cavity wall insultation with values set at up to 80% of median cost; up to 100% of median cost for those on qualifying welfare payments and for first time buyers, subject to scheme conditions; the funding allocated to this measure per year; the numbers of grants al…

134. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the capital allocation for retrofitting will be €898 million as outlined on page 10 of the Governments National Retrofit Plan (details supplied). [48916/26]

135. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a detailed breakdown of the funding allocated to renewable energy communities; the amount of this funding this has been drawn down in each of the years 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48917/26]

136. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of the allocated amount to the enabling grant for renewable energy communities; and the amount of the funding that has been drawn down in each of the years since the grant has been available, in tabular form. [48919/26]

137. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the funding allocated to sustainable energy communities in each of the years 2020 to 2025, and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [48920/26]

138. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of all the revenue the Government has spent to facilitate and support community energy, by cap ex and op ex in each of the years 2020 to 2025, and to date in 2026, tabular form. [48921/26]

139. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the funding allocated to the community enabling framework, by cap and op ex; to provide a breakdown of the way in which the funding is directed at whether through staffing and / or grant supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48922/26]

140. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a detailed breakdown of the PTE and FTE staff that are employed as part of the community enabling framework; to provide a breakdown of the FTE and PTE employed as part of the SRESS; the cost to employ an additional FTE and PTE as part of the SRESS; the cost to employ an additional FTE and PTE as part of the c…

141. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the total number of staff broken down by FTE and PTE that are employed to support renewable energy communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48924/26]

142. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by project, year and value; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49087/26]

143. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide an update on the designation of renewables acceleration areas for one or more types of renewable energy sources under Article 15c of the RED III Directive; the way in which these areas are identified; who is responsible for identifying them; if proposals have been put forward to designate areas in County…

144. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether any environmental or public health risk assessments regarding leaded aviation fuel emissions have been undertaken at an airport (details supplied). [49194/26]

145. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether any monitoring of airborne or deposited lead has been conducted in surrounding communities. [49195/26]

146. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the plans that exist nationally or locally to phase out AVGAS100LL in favour of unleaded alternatives. [49196/26]

147. Deputy Pat the Cope Gallagher asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if, having regard to the proposal for a salmon harvest moratorium contained in Inland Fisheries Ireland's Position Paper on Salmon (October 2025 IFI Board meeting report) and his statement on 6 February 2026 that Inland Fisheries Ireland had been asked to examine options for salmon conservation up to and …

148. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if advice will be provided in relation to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49246/26]

149. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will consider extending the eligibility criteria for the warmer homes scheme to include recipients of the living alone allowance, thereby allowing them to qualify for free home energy efficiency upgrades. [49348/26]