Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 19 January 2022
140. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the current number of live studies, reviews and research undertaken or commissioned by him in tabular form; and the date by which each study, review and research is scheduled to be completed. [1551/22]
View answerMy Department administers a very diverse, complex and technical brief across critical and strategic sectors of the Irish economy. Studies, reviews and research are currently being undertaken by my Department which contribute to project delivery and informed, robust and evidence-based policy making. Details of these are set out in the table below.
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Details of live studies, reviews and research |
Scheduled date for completion |
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EnvEcon AP Limited - Consultancy to support work of the Climate Action Modelling Group (CAMG). The work is focused on climate and air quality modelling and is being undertaken as part of a 4 year publicly procured multiannual contract November 2018-2022 |
14/11/2022 |
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University College Cork (MaREI Institute) - Consultancy to support work of the Climate Action Modelling Group (CAMG). The work is focused on energy systems and climate modelling and is being undertaken as part of a 4 year publicly procured multiannual contract December 2018-2022 |
06/12/2022 |
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Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)- Consultancy to support work of the Climate Action Modelling Group (CAMG). This includes provision of a Research Programme on Climate, Energy and the Economy 2020-2022 |
31/12/2022 |
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University College Dublin (Energy Institute) -Consultancy to support work of the Climate Action Modelling Group (CAMG). The work focuses on electricity systems modelling and is being undertaken as part of a 4 year publicly procured multiannual contract February 2019-2023 |
07/02/2023 |
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Aerial Surveys of Mega Fauna in Irish coastal and offshore waters (ObSERVE Phase 2 Aerial Project) |
April 2024 |
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National land use review (Phase I: Land Use Evidential Review) carried out by the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of both the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) and the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DFAM) |
Q3 2022 |
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Provision of Operational Management Advisory Services for the National Postcode System |
January 2022 |
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Eircode Focused Policy Assessment |
February 2022 |
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An independent analysis of the Warmth and Wellbeing Scheme carried out by the London School of Tropical Medicine |
Q2 2022 |
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Review of the Strategy to Combat Energy Poverty |
Q1 2022 |
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Review of the National Adaptation Framework |
Q3 2022 |
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EPA Irish Minds Study (Preliminary report presented 7th December 2021. A detailed segmentation report and regional report will be made available in the first half of 2022) |
1st Half 2022 |
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ESRI – In depth modelling of consumer demands for mobile services and examination of ComReg’s data gathering on broadband services |
1st Half 2022 |
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ESRI – Behavioural experiments on how to encourage take up of high-speed broadband services |
2nd Half 2022 |
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ESRI – Study to explore the effects of digital services and devices on society and economy |
1st Half 2022 |
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Irish National Seismic Network (Co-Funded by Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) |
30/11/2023 |
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Mapping, Modelling and Monitoring Key Processes and Controls on Cold-water Coral Habitats in Submarine Canyons (Co-Funded by SFI & Marine Institute) |
30/10/2022 |
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Structure, evolution and seismic hazard of the Irish offshore: An investigation using the first broadband, ocean-bottom seismometer deployment offshore Ireland (Co-Funded by SFI & Marine Institute) |
28/02/2023 |
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Integrating multidisciplinary geoscientific data into forecasting models to monitor and predict coastal change: Proof of concept in Dublin Bay (Co-Funded by SFI & Marine Institute) |
30/06/2022 |
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Environmental Geoscience PhD Programme (Co-Funded by iCRAG/SFI) |
30/04/2023 |
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Exploring the critical metal potential of Irish Zn Pb deposits |
28/02/2022 |
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DIG: De-risking Ireland’s Geothermal Energy Potential (Co-Funded by SEAI) |
31/12/2023 |
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ThermoWell: Thermal Resource Extraction from a Standing Column Well (Co-Funded by SEAI) |
08/03/2023 |
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Stonebuilt Ireland - creating a countrywide inventory of building stone (Co-Funded by TCD & OPW) |
30/11/2022 |
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Separating Critical metals through mineral crystallization (Selector) (Co-Funded by SFI) |
30/08/2024 |
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Geophysical and Earth Observation Tools for Evaluating the Condition of Slopes (GEOTECS) (Co-Funded by SFI) |
30/09/2024 |
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DEEP Innovation for De-Risking Enhanced Geothermal Energy Projects (Co-Funded by Geothermica) |
31/11/2023 |
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Enhancing Reservoirs in Urban Development: smart wells and reservoir development, RESULT (Co-Funded by Geothermica) |
30/09/2023 |
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Groundwater-g - Supporting Groundwater Resources Management using Low-Cost Microgravity Technology |
31/07/2022 |
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Abrupt Climate Change in Ireland: Redefining our climate future through a lens of high-resolution glacial reconstruction |
31/03/2022 |
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RAFTA: Resolution Analyses for Frequency- and Time-DomainAirborne Electromagnetic Data of the Irish Tellus Programme |
31/08/2022 |
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Linking ocean model predictions with coastal impacts using a low cost, time-lapse camera shoreline monitoring system |
30/04/2022 |
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BIM integrated Geo hazard monitoring of at-risk slopes and historical retaining structures |
30/06/2022 |
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Assessing the potential of Holocene shell-beds in Galway Bay as palaeo-environmental and palaeo-climate archives |
31/01/2022 |
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Energy Critical Element Characterisation of Irish Mineral Deposits |
31/01/2022 |
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Hyperspectral Analysis of the Mourne Mountains (HAMM) |
31/07/2022 |
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Pile Ageing Study for Offshore Wind Applications |
31/01/2022 |
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Delivering Added Value to the Tellus Survey: A Multi-elemental Isotopic Database of Soil and Stream Water |
31/01/2022 |
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Quantifying Ireland’s Dust Bowl: An interdisciplinary assessment ofpotential loess genesis, deposition, and dynamics in the Burren |
31/08/2022 |
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Real time Monitoring of landslides using remote sensing approaches |
31/05/2022 |
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Developing seabed scour assessment and prediction tools using computational fluid dynamics modelling (DeMo) |
31/01/2022 |
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Extraction of Historic DEMs and Orthophotos using Digital Photogrammetry and its Applications in Coastal Evolution Studies |
31/07/2022 |
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Monitoring and Modelling Geomagnetic and Geoelectric Fields in Ireland (Co-Funded by IRC) |
31/03/2024 |
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Integrated modelling of hydrogeological/hydrological data and climate change scenarios for preselected Irish groundwater systems |
31/12/2022 |
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Collaborative Research: Beyond Zircon - Developing Novel Methods for Assessing Sedimentary Recycling Using Detrital Minerals (Co-funded with Fulbright) |
15/06/2022 |
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Measuring pyrite reactivity in aggregates and its relationship with thermal/diagenetic maturation (Co-funded by DHLGH) |
31/01/2023 |
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Predicting Sea Levels and Sea-Level Extremes for Ireland (Co-funded with SFI) |
30/11/2024 |
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Developing a process-based understanding of platinum group element mineralisation: a natural laboratory in Ireland (Critical-Ireland) 9Co-funded with SFI) |
30/11/2025 |
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Groundwater Age Distributions for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater resources in Ireland (Equipment) |
01/12/2022 |
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Critical Raw Materials for Ireland for a Resource Efficient Circular Economy (Equipment) |
01/12/2022 |
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Mapping Understanding and Current Knowledge: Irish Soils (Equipment) |
01/12/2022 |
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MASTER: Magnetotelluric (MT) Acquisition Systems for Terrestrial Earth Research infrastructure (Equipment) |
01/12/2022 |
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Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer for the characterisation of geologic and environmentally relevant materials and rocks. (Equipment) |
01/12/2022 |
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Polishing system for laser ablation ICP-MS and SEM samples (pucks/mounts) (Equipment) |
01/12/2022 |
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The Irish Cosmogenic Nuclide Facility (ICNF): Growing Ireland’s capacity for cutting-edge cosmogenic nuclide geochronology (Equipment) |
01/12/2022 |
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Raising capability to determine the carbonate chemistry of Aquatic systems. (Equipment) |
01/12/2022 |
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Pb-210 alpha counter (Equipment) |
01/12/2022 |
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The first dedicated visualisation workstation for ‘virtual geoscience’ in Ireland (Equipment) |
01/12/2022 |
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Enhancement of Environmental Geoscience Lab (Equipment) |
01/12/2022 |
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Expansion of ICARUS Palaeo Research laboratory (Equipment) |
01/12/2022 |
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Geothermal Energy and Optimal Renewable Mix at UCD (GEONORM) (Co-funded with SEAI) |
01/12/2022 |
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Hydrogen Salt Storage Assessment (HYSS) (Co-funded with SEAI) |
01/12/2022 |
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Catchment Care: Community Actions for resilient ecosystems (Part funded by Interreg) |
30/04/2023 |
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CHERISH: Climate, Heritage and Environments of Reefs, Islands, and Headlands (Part funded by Interreg) |
30/06/2023 |
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Coastal Change from Space: Monitoring Coastal Erosion from Space (Part funded by European Space Agency) |
01/05/2022 |
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EMODNET, The European Marine Observation and Data Network – Geology (Part funded by DG Mare (EU)) |
01/11/2023 |
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EMODNET, The European Marine Observation and Data Network – Bathymetry (Part funded by DG Mare (EU)) |
June 2023 |
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GEOTHERMICA ERA-NET Co-fund (Part funded by European Commission) |
30/06/2026 |
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ERA MIN 3 Raw Materials for the Sustainable Development and the Circular Economy (Part funded by European Commission) |
30/11/2025 |
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European Plate Observing System (ESFRI infrastructure) (Part funded by European Commission) |
ongoing |
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Geo Energy Europe2 (Part funded by European Commission) |
30/09/2022 |
