Dáil debates

Thursday, 10 April 2025

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions

Energy Policy

3:00 am

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----that he goes out and starts telling people we are buying fracked gas from the United States. That is not the question at all, but it suits the Deputy's narrative that he will be able to stoke up anger in this regard. We are doing pretty well as a country with regard to our transition to green energy. On an average day, approximately 33% of our energy is generated through renewables. We need to do a lot better, and we are going to accelerate that. That means things like the Planning and Development Act we passed last year to help us accelerate the delivery of renewables, an Act, by the way, the Deputy opposed. He also opposed the marine planning Act, which was incredible. We did not have a planning architecture for our maritime area, and, to try to streamline that, we created and established the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority, MARA. Again, the Deputy and others in the Opposition actually opposed it. I cannot understand their reasons-----

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