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Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...or locally in politics. We saw that when the Tánaiste, Deputy Martin, went to north Kerry and made promises before the last general election that he was going to support a liquefied natural gas, LNG, facility and then he turned around, the minute the election was over, and did a U-turn and abandoned north Kerry, south Kerry, east Kerry, mid-Kerry, and every part of Kerry. He does...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (18 Oct 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...include toll reductions for electric motorbikes, hydrogen fuelled passenger cars and SPSVs, and heavy duty vehicles (trucks, buses and coaches) fuelled by compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), hydrogen or electricity. The 2023 toll incentive scheme is due to end December 31 2023. I am currently considering options based on the overall funding envelope available...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...'s houses. That has to be thought of. The Minister has a one-track mind and is hanging his shirt on electricity. At the same time, the Government stopped us getting from getting another gas from the west through Shannon LNG. It is also giving no consideration to LPG which was available 50 years ago and there are no emissions at all from that. Fellows fitted them to petrol cars at...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...up inflation but the banks can do so. The cost of gas is increasing. We had one chance in Kerry of ensuring that we would have continuity of supply, and maybe at a lesser price, with Shannon LNG but the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications stopped it. It will not get the go-ahead, even though it would have cost the Government nothing. For the people that suffer...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Production (28 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Brendan Griffin: .... Yet, here we are heading into October and we have not seen the review yet. This is a long-running saga. There is a strong feeling in my constituency that this delay is linked to the Shannon LNG application recently decided on by An Bord Pleanála. As the Minister of State knows, there was a strong reference in that to the delay of the publication of this particular review. I...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Natural Gas Imports (28 Sep 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the rationale for his intervention in the Shannon LNG planning application; how many other planning applications has he intervened in since his appointment in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41872/23]

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023) See 4 other results from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ..., low pressure and shut-offs at night time. People cannot understand it. I will go back to gas. My apologies to the Ceann Comhairle. I refer to gas, gas terminals and liquefied natural gas, LNG. There has been such a breach of faith. I am leader of the Rural Independent Group for the time being. I organised a meeting with the current Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál Martin,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...in the planning system too. We need to have the legal timeframes recognised and complied with. Finally, while I am talking about An Bord Pleanála and the delays, I want to welcome its rejection of the Shannon LNG terminal. It was a great decision and one that recognises that we cannot lock ourselves into a fossil fuel future.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Danny Healy-Rae: I need to bring to the Minister's attention the high level of anger, dissatisfaction and frustration felt by many people in Kerry because of two things, namely, the Shannon LNG project and the Killarney bypass. Energy security is being compromised, jobs are being lost and, in the case of the Killarney bypass, road safety is being compromised. Shannon LNG's application to An Bord...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...capacity licence to provide emergency power generation by 2025 was granted recently. The successful applicant for that capacity generation is the same company that is behind the liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal in Shannon. This is a terminal that we do not need and will lock us into a carbon-rich future. The Commission for the Regulation of Utilities, CRU, which is the energy...

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...workers and ordinary farmers. It must be for the big corporations, the tech giants, the global rich and their profits too. The second thing this Bill provides for is a ban on any siting of liquified natural gas, LNG, terminals in the State. Incredibly, after three years of the Green Party being in government, we have the imminent threat of an LNG terminal being sited in either Cork or...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: ...has been jockeying, I think, and public arguments, and some of it is represents some of the Minister's own comments at different stages. There are those who have argued for liquefied natural gas, LNG, infrastructure for example. Does the Minister have a comment regarding that? Similarly, it is welcome that the ESB is looking at Kinsale gas field for potential gas storage. What criteria...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...include liability and insurance cover in the consideration of new energy projects; if he will comment on the contraction in the market of insurers willing to extend cover to the construction of new LNG terminals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28431/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Sales (13 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...minimum mandatory infrastructure requirements to support the decarbonisation of our vehicle fleets, considers liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), compressed natural gas (CNG), and liquefied natural gas (LNG) to be non-renewable, transitional fossil fuels. Vehicles using such fuels are therefore to be gradually replaced by zero-emission powertrains in the medium-to-long-term. As such, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (30 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...;200 million in compensation to a British oil company after it decided to ban offshore drilling. I understand that similar litigation is possible here. On the development of liquefied natural gas, LNG, storage, which is an issue being discussed today by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action, I echo the calls of activists, and was glad to sign an open letter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023) See 31 other results from this debate

Brian Leddin: Apologies have been received from Senator Alice Mary Higgins. The purpose of meeting today is to discuss liquefied natural gas, LNG, as an issue and also fossil fuel exploration and related areas. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the following witnesses: Professor Barry McMullin of Dublin City University; and Mr. Gergely Molnár, gas analyst at the International Energy Agency. Mr....

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (17 May 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Lynn Boylan: ...comments frequently on energy security on this island and often takes a position that is pro-fossil fuel and the continuation of fossil fuel, particularly in the context of the liquified natural gas, LNG, terminal, yet one cannot get an answer when one asks who is funding it, from where is its money coming and whether it is coming from industry. Although I only have an interest in energy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Mr. Tim Murphy: On the first part and LNG in the Port of Cork, our paymaster is the Government. We are awaiting the energy security document that is to be issued by the Government. On the back of whatever the Government decides, we will take that steer. As a commercial State company, we are mandated and obliged to have enough port capacity to meet demand. We look at what the demand is in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (3 May 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Jennifer Whitmore: 61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline Government policy on the importation of LNG and the commercial development of LNG infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20722/23]