Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----I can tell him that for the people I am speaking about, it is not. That is one thing. Second, HVO deployment, which is not really happening around the country to any great extent, would be some way of mitigating the cost of fuels. Beyond that, many people have raised the issue of solar farms in this House. Every farm in this country has some kind of round top or flat top hay barn and we expect farmers to step in all of the time to provide that solar power. Why would the State not do that in a far greater way? Surely this is one of the ways we could significantly mitigate the amount of electricity generation and the amount of energy we are buying in versus the electricity we could generate. This is one of the things that should be looked at in the remaining time of the Government in terms of the carbon tax, namely, exactly how we are spending it, what value for money we are getting and how we are deploying it.

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