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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ukraine War (29 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: 581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if arrangements have been made to provide a reception centre for Ukrainian refugees arriving at Rosslare Europort that allow for a family and child friendly environment for the seven to eight hours that it is taking for the processing of paperwork for those arriving at the port; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Chairman and wish the officials a good morning. I am delighted they are before us and have been listening intently from my office. I have a couple of quick-fire questions on electric car chargers. Is there a wait time for having a charger fitted at the home?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: What would Mr. Meally say the average time is, from purchasing a car to having the charger fitted at the home?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: That is grand. Mr. Walsh can reply.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Okay. That is not so bad.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: That is grand. The other aspect is whether chargers are interchangeable. If I buy a Volkswagen electric car this year and a Nissan in three years or whatever, are they interchangeable?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: There would be no extra cost to me as a purchaser. I am not going to have to change the whole thing.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: That is grand. I thank Mr. Meally and Mr. Walsh. I move to wind farm construction. Clearly, we are in the throes of an energy crisis and more or less an energy war. With that in mind, I am very concerned that not only might we not meet targets but that we might not be anywhere near them. When you are looking at infrastructural construction projects like we are, 2030 is not that far...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Yes, but at the moment we do not have anywhere. I am aware we used Rosslare, for instance, for Arklow Bay but on a much larger scale, Rosslare is not ready and does not currently have the funding for an infrastructural project of this size. I would appreciate it were the SEAI to be making that case effectively. I understand if it is not within its remit but we might have to join the dots a...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: The SEAI is part of that.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Then I would appreciate it if Mr. Meally could pass that on because strategically, it is the best-placed port from the east and south-east coast.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: We are all about the economics of it so that is where the Committee of Public Accounts comes in. I would not want anyone to think this is pointed but we are the Committee of Public Accounts and I want to ask about a significant increase in the CEO's remuneration from 2019 to date. Has there been any increase in 2021?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: There is an uplift, okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: A modest uplift, okay. Is there is a basis for that? Is that an annual-----

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: -----remuneration increase?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Okay. That is fine. Going back to what we said about electric cars, everything related to our 2030 targets is based on cars because it is not based on commercial vehicles. There is not, as yet, any suitable replacement. They cannot correlate the weight increase in the batteries and the unladen weight of the vehicle for the payload. Does the SEAI have any input into that? Does it have...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: I am only aware of one scheme with regard to purchasing gas trucks as an alternative. That had nothing to do with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, did it?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: What feedback does the SEAI have on the matter now?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: Mr. Meally should be aware, so that he can take the information back, that every gas truck is now parked up on a forecourt because gas has now exceeded the price of even diesel, which is extraordinary. The Department and all of the relevant groups that attended were advised that it was not a viable option to only have gas trucks, particularly for an island nation, because gas trucks cannot...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Verona Murphy: I am concerned that we have now spent millions moving in the wrong direction. I am a politician on the Committee of Public Accounts and as much as it is my responsibility to show that up, it is the authority's responsibility as a sustainable energy group to make sure its input recognises it in all of these gatherings. That is what is wrong. We are not actually getting the message out...