Cabinet Committees Dail Éireann — 2024-06-25 ============================================================ Simon Harris (FG), Wicklow I thank the Deputies for raising these issues. Starting with Deputy Ó Murchú and the issue of Carlinn Hall in Dundalk, this is a matter he has raised before in the context of how we need to have a better support scheme for renewable energy and district heating and, ideally, for the optimal use of waste heat. I will speak directly to the Ministers involved in this regard and ask them to consider what the Deputy said. Turning to the issue raised by Deputy Barry, truthfully, I raised it as recently as this morning with the Tánaiste and the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy O'Brien. The Minister for housing is due to meet with Uisce Éireann today. I did highlight that I regularly get asked in this House by the Deputy about the water situation in Cork. I wrote, as recently as last week or in the past ten days, I think, to the chief executive directly, as I promised I would. I have my office checking now if I have received a reply but I will send the Deputy a copy of the letter I sent. I do know how serious this situation is for the Deputy's constituents and I will seek an urgent response to my letter if one has not been received so far. I will, truthfully, have to find out for Deputy Boyd Barrett where the marine protected areas legislation is at. I too see that it is on the priority list for publication, but I ask the Deputy to let me check what the timeline in this regard looks like. I will come to him in writing in regard to this matter. Moving to Deputy Murphy, I will be very happy to meet the Protect Moylisha Hill group. I have met its representatives at several events in my constituency over the last period of time and I was planning on having a more substantial meeting with them as a constituency TD. I will certainly be happy to do that. I thank Deputy Tóibín for raising the matter to which he referred. He might share with me, if he is happy to do so, any documents he has received. I will certainly have our relevant Departments look at this matter. I do know that at the most recent meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council, which took place before I became Taoiseach but which I attended as a Minister, the specific issue of Lough Neagh was discussed and how the two Administrations on the island of Ireland could co-operate in terms of what is a very serious environmental catastrophe. I am grateful for the Deputy's insight in this regard and happy to take a look at the matter. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2024-06-25/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:53:07+00:00 Sitting date: 2024-06-25