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- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Sharon Keogan: ...; it is a more environmentally friendly source of energy that fossil fuels; - while Ireland should continue investing in renewable sources of energy, electricity generated from nuclear power could help Ireland to meet its long-term energy needs; notes that: - carbon taxes exist as a disincentive, but they can only be effective if members of the public are using more energy than they...
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Eamon Ryan: ...we, for different reasons. It is not a magic easy-fix solution, however. We have to be upfront and honest about that. It is incredibly expensive and brings waste and other issues that would be long-term expensive. Had we built at Carnsore Point in the first place 40 years ago, we would be now decommissioning it. I also meet on a regular basis my Belgian counterpart, the Belgian energy...
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Timmy Dooley: ...a decision by the European Union to phase out its dependency on Russian gas, oil and coal imports as soon as possible; - the immediate impacts of the war include significant increases in the price that we pay for energy; - in the longer-term, the war will also impact where and how we source that energy and will change how we design energy policy to ensure the system’s long-term...
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
John McGahon: ...idea, let us sell it to the public and let us bring the public with us and say that nuclear energy is the way we need to go. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has just said that it would take a long time to get something like that up and running in Ireland, even if the entire country was for it. It would take so long to build it, get it into the grid and get it working to be able to serve...
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Vincent P Martin: ...journey is extravagant. There is a more efficient way of arriving at the destination we all would like to reach. It is extravagant in both the expense of the construction, which would take a long time, and in the expense of the disposal and the decommissioning. The scale for Ireland does not represent good value, leaving aside other issues, for where the Senators wish to travel. Yes,...
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Vincent P Martin: ..., which the Senators put much thought into, is absent many of the other options. I welcome the fact that it is not morally bankrupt by suggesting Ireland can take a holiday. That argument has long since been over. We have a moral duty to rise to the challenge. Our global emissions per capitaare bigger than those of China. As I have said in this Chamber on a number of occasions...
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Marie Sherlock: ...proposal for nuclear energy particularly because of the waste storage issue. This is not an insignificant issue. In the United States, there are 90,000 tonnes of high-level nuclear waste with no long-term waste storage solution. We can take a short-term view that nuclear may be able to fill a gap or allow us to find an alternative source of energy supply but what will happen in the...
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Pauline O'Reilly: ...the representatives of the energy industry were saying then, because it was so untested. Now, though, this is the technology we are investing in. It is the same with green hydrogen. Not that long ago, people would have said this was a power source of concern only to academics, but it is now a genuine possibility. A solid group is working on this technology in Galway. It involves...
- Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)
Róisín Garvey: ...EU planning laws, it chose to shut them down. If we are to have a debate on energy, climate and fuels, which are important, let us look at solutions. We need to move away from burning turf in the long term. We are not against people cutting turf. I will be cutting turf this summer and next summer because I know the Green Party never said one could not do so. Let us talk truth and...