119. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of the funding provided to district heating in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; to provide a detailed breakdown of the specific projects this funding was allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48823/26]
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All 20 departments
| Department | Questions | Oral | Written |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 27,764 | 145 | 27,619 |
| Education | 14,148 | 145 | 14,003 |
| Transport | 11,178 | 139 | 11,039 |
| Justice | 9,962 | 135 | 9,827 |
| Housing | 9,139 | 160 | 8,979 |
| Children | 8,691 | 142 | 8,549 |
| Social | 5,914 | 135 | 5,779 |
| Finance | 5,884 | 153 | 5,731 |
| Agriculture | 4,894 | 136 | 4,758 |
| Enterprise | 3,942 | 139 | 3,803 |
| Climate | 3,915 | 130 | 3,785 |
| Foreign | 3,868 | 190 | 3,678 |
| Public Expenditure | 3,737 | 167 | 3,570 |
| Further and Higher Education | 3,437 | 140 | 3,297 |
| Taoiseach | 2,649 | 1,479 | 1,170 |
| Defence | 2,599 | 179 | 2,420 |
| Culture | 2,492 | 147 | 2,345 |
| Rural | 2,361 | 140 | 2,221 |
| Environment | 1,029 | 26 | 1,003 |
| Tourism | 703 | 31 | 672 |
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120. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of all district heating projects that have been awarded funding through the Governments Climate Action Fund; the funding provided to each project in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [48824/26]
121. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of all district heating projects that have been awarded funding through the EU grant funding; and the funding provided to each project in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [48825/26]
122. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of all district heating projects that have been awarded funding from a local authority; and the funding provided to each project in each of the years 2020 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form. [48826/26]
123. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the modelling he has completed regarding the cost and or savings of his programmes and policies as they relate to ESR compliance. [48830/26]
124. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he has requested the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) to review the widening disparity between import and export of electricity prices; and if not, whether he will instruct the CRU to examine whether current supplier practices are consistent with consumer protection objectives; and if he will make a statement on the mat…
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 uplift was announced;…
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 allocated before the c…
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 community enabling fr…
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 Galway; if a map of…