Environmental Policy

71. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of total capital and current funding allocated to the solar pv scheme under subhead b4 of the revised estimate the years 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and to provide a breakdown of the allocation under this scheme dedicated to domestic and non-domestic solar pv respectively, in tabular fo…

72. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the average cost to install domestic solar pv under the solar pv scheme and the average size of systems installed on homes in kWp in the years 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [28291/25]

73. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the average cost to install a heat pump, broken down by post-BER rating and by SEAI scheme in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28292/25]

76. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications for the breakdown of the funding provided for community energy grants in each of the years 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28295/25]

77. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications for the breakdown of the funding provided for domestic solar photovoltaic systems in each of the years 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28296/25]

78. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications for a breakdown of the funding provided for community solar photovoltaic systems in the years 2020 to 2025, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28297/25]

79. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the pre-and post-BER ratings of all deep retrofits completed in the years 2020 to 2024, and to date in 2025, under all SEAI schemes, by scheme, pre-BER and post-BER, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28298/25]

80. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the breakdown of the pre-BER and post-BER rating of solid fuel homes retrofitted as part of the SEAI retrofitting programme, broken down by SEAI scheme in the years 2020 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28299/25]

81. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of solid fuel homes retrofitted as part of the SEAI retrofitting programme that were fitted with a heat pump, broken down by SEAI scheme in the years 2020 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28300/25]

82. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the average cost per retrofit in each of the SEAI’s schemes per post-BER rating in the years 2020 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28301/25]

83. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the extent to which real estate investment trust (REIT)-owned residences have availed of the SEAI’s retrofitting scheme; the number of REIT-owned properties that have been retrofitted under the SEAI various schemes, broken down by scheme in the years 2021 to 2024, and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he w…

84. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the breakdown of the real estate investment trusts (REIT) that have availed of the SEAI retrofitting schemes; the breakdown of the total value awarded to each REIT, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28305/25]

86. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the budget allocations for each programme under the subhead B4 of the Revised Estimate for 2025, in tabular form. [28314/25]

235. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the cost of doubling the funding for the local biodiversity action fund. [28199/25]

254. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost to increase current resourcing to local authorities to tackle the biodiversity crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28019/25]

255. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost to establish a fund for a community led, peer-to-peer farming for nature restoration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28020/25]

256. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost to establish an All-Island Biodiversity Taskforce, to deal with issues of biodiversity loss in all 32 counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28022/25]

298. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update on the work of his Department’s exploration and mining division; the way in which he ensures that exploration and mining projects in Ireland are consistent with climate and environmental goals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23207/25]

299. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide and update on the work of his Department’s petroleum affairs division; the way in which he ensures that oil and gas exploitation in Ireland is consistent with climate and environmental goals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23208/25]

767. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress being made to support biodiversity; the key achievements since 2020; the plans between now and 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24227/25]

26. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the steps that have been taken in relation to EU directives on the circular economy vis-a-vis textiles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17949/25]

218. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has been informed by the Department of Infrastructure in the North of Ireland of two discharge consent applications by a company (details supplied); if he has been informed of two water abstraction licences from the same company that would abstract half a million gallons of water per day from…

167. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update in relation to plans for a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8904/25]

201. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the national policy on biomethane generating plants; if the Department favours the use of individual farm-based biodigesters; if not, it is supportive of industrial scale methane generation; his views on the best strategic locations for such industrial scale processes; the guidance his Department provid…

216. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if hydrotreated vegetable oil for home heating will be approved for consumer use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8001/25]