218. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the funding which will be provided to appointing additional staff to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) department in Cahersiveen, County Kerry, to deal with the increase in applications and existing backlogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48475/26]
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221. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 18 September 2024, to provide a breakdown of the full-year cost of employing one FTE, per staffing grade, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48722/26]
222. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 69 of 18 September 2024, to provide a breakdown of the full-year cost of employing one FTE, per staffing grade, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48723/26]
223. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 18 September 2024, to provide a breakdown of the full-year cost of employing one FTE, per staffing grade, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48724/26]
224. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown the full-year cost of employing one FTE, per staffing grade, in workforce planning in the SEAI, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48725/26]
225. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the estimated cost to hire 10% additional staff in the MARA with environmental, marine and/or ecological expertise; and the estimated cost to hire 20%, 30%, 40%, 50% additional staff in the MARA. [48728/26]
133. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to appoint additional staff to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) office in Cahersiveen, County Kerry to cater for the increase in applications/funding, to ensure that all applications are processed in a timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48173/26]
284. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if there are service level agreements in place with MARA around license applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29239/26]
285. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his Department has received any correspondence from stakeholders regarding delays with MARA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29240/26]
161. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether State-owned electricity companies are required to report gross profit percentages or sums to him. [14263/26]
94. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the total number of staff employed by the EPA; the percentage of its staff working directly on processing licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70461/25]
124. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the current status of his Department’s plan to increase the staff headcount of the CRU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60216/25]
15. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the specific responsibilities and powers of Coimisiún na Meán in relation to the enforcement of take-back obligations on online distance sellers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55588/25]
16. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he has engaged with EirGrid and ESB regarding the amount of funding they have allocated to facilitating new data centre connections through Exchequer funding; if this data is recorded; and if so, to provide a detailed breakdown funding provided for this purpose in each of the years since 2020, in tabular form. [55871/25]
26. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if, in view of the fact that Ireland’s municipal waste recycling rate has remained at 41% for the past decade, well below the EU target of 55% for 2025, if he will outline the measures his Department is taking to ensure that distance sellers are meeting their legal obligations in relation to waste collection, recycling and producer resp…
27. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if, in view of Ireland’s municipal waste recycling rate remaining at 41% for the past decade, well below the 55% target for 2025, his Department has assessed the merits of introducing a pay-on-behalf system to address non-compliance by distance sellers with their waste and recycling obligations; and if he will make a statement on the ma…
28. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the measures he will take to rectify the imbalance in obligations for product take-back and recycling between domestic retailers and distance sellers, with a view to ensuring that all businesses placing products on the Irish market are subject to equivalent environmental compliance requirements. [55573/25]
31. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will consider commissioning an assessment of the costs incurred by Irish retailers as a result of distance sellers who fail to comply with their take-back obligations under extended producer responsibility schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55586/25]
32. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the specific responsibilities and powers of the Environmental Protection Agency in relation to the enforcement of extended producer responsibility rules as they apply to distance sellers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55587/25]
54. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to outline how the commitment in Budget 2026 to leverage “the €3.5 billion equity into semi-state energy companies to boost electricity supply and make the network more sustainable and resilient” will be achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55892/25]
211. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the additional resources that have been provided to each State and semi-State body; the break-down of the funding that was provided in each of the years 2020 to 2025 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55351/25]
141. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the reason the Environmental Protection Agency is excluded from Ombudsman oversight, and the alternative accountability mechanism exist that are accessible to members of the public. [54022/25]
132. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if the staffing and resources available to the MARA are sufficient to enable the agency to adequately perform its statutory functions to validate, assess and issue MACs and MULs in a timely manner. [45869/25]
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]
31. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the first- and full-year cost of establishing the Commission for Regulation of Utilities. [31334/25]