Results 1-20 of 4,528 for speaker:Pa Daly
- Fisheries: Statements (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: Sinn Féin has long called for this debate and I am glad to finally have the chance to stand up for coastal and fishing communities. I thank our fisheries spokesman, Deputy Mac Lochlainn, for pushing for this debate.
- Fisheries: Statements (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: These fishing communities have played a critical role in our economy and culture for generations but are now facing an existential threat following proposed cuts to our fishing quota and the Common Fisheries Policy. Just as we must protect marine life and biodiversity, we must also prioritise the communities that have lived alongside them for generations. Science and sustainability are not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: I thank all the witnesses for their presentations. We heard from all them that the built environment is responsible for 37% of total emissions in Ireland. There is a challenge in the context of continuing to construct 300,000 homes while also meeting the climate targets that have been set. With the increase in construction, dealing with the carbon emissions is always going to be a big...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: What steps can be taken to narrow or address the skills gap?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: What about the decarbonisation of building sites? What steps can be taken there to accelerate that, if it was up to the witnesses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: We heard a couple of weeks ago from, I think, representatives from the road haulage association about the carbon tax on diesel and hydrotreated vegetable oil. Something should be done about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: What if the VAT was amended?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: Could there be more incentives?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: The challenges with retrofitting and slower take-up than what we might expect have been mentioned. I find particularly that lower- and middle-income families do not have the money to pay the cost upfront before they get the grants. How do the witnesses think this could be addressed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: More incentives and making it easier for people to take it up. Is that it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: The State needs to get more involved. Is that what Mr. Brownlee is saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: That is the State getting involved more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: There was a very successful public scheme in Tralee going back 12 or 13 years to heat an area with 200 houses with wood chip. It was one of the first schemes of its kind. As Dr. Kinnane is here, I will ask him about refurbishing public buildings. Have courthouses throughout the country been looked at? There has been tendency in recent years to move to greenfield sites and build new...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: There was a big campaign in Skibbereen to maintain the courthouse there and it was kept. In Dr. Kinnane's experience, does it usually end up being cheaper to renovate than to build on the outside of towns?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: That would be Dr. Kinnane's preference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: I welcome the witnesses and congratulate Ms Considine on her new appointment. She has a tough act to follow. Not only did Mr. Jim Meade oversee a very progressive team, as Ms Considine stated, but he also oversaw a mindset change. I remember about ten years ago, when I was on the council, three of us from Tralee went to a council meeting in Rathmore. We took the train and people laughed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (22 Oct 2025)
Pa Daly: Is the company operating the Cork-Dublin line, for example, not making a profit at the moment?