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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (4 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: The Government has ambitious targets when it comes to electric vehicles. Approximately 195,000 are supposed to be on the road by the end of 2025, growing to 845,000 by 2030. There is nothing wrong with that but with only 80,000 electric vehicles currently on the road, reaching these targets at the current rate of progress is a practical impossibility. If we do not meet the 2030 targets,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (4 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: I thank the Minister. As he said, the question related to making electric vehicles more accessible for rural motorists. He mentioned the 400 km figure, but that confidence is not shared by people who are selling electric vehicles in Kerry, who are not confident that motorists will be able to drive all the way to Dublin, for example, in an electric vehicle. The EV schemes seem to remain the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (4 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: I am glad the Minister accepts that the works done to date are unacceptable and inadequate. The Government has slashed the EV grant and repeatedly failed to make it available for second-hand vehicles. Will the Minister consider re-establishing that or improving the grant for the purchase of second-hand vehicles? The Government wants just under 1 million electric vehicles to be on the road...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (4 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: Carbon tax is unfair.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: 95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on service level requirements for private operators on public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9454/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: What are the service level requirements for private operators on public transport and will the Minister make a statement on the matter? Commuters the length and breadth of the country are exasperated because of the shambolic service some of them have come to expect as normal. Week in, week out, we receive complaints about ghost buses, late buses and students who are trying to get home from...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: We all agree that if the service is there, more people will use it. The Minister mentioned performance reviews. I am sure he will agree that the service provided to date is not up to scratch. I ask him to confirm that is the case. The Minister mentioned penalties. We have heard stories about the farcical situation where some bus drivers commence a route at stage eight or nine of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: The Minister mentioned a reduction in fares. Only last week, there was an outrageous proposal that commuters would be punished for the Government's failure to deliver essential transport infrastructure. Last Friday, it was reported that commuters would be subject to increased fares to pay for public transport infrastructure and some of these projects have already been in the pipeline for...

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: Tá an Rialtas ag magadh faoi na ndaoine, ag cruthú scannal i ndiaidh scannail agus ag cur ár gcuid airgid amú. The sense of anger and frustration felt by people is palpable but the disillusionment and apathy is more worrying as they see their hard-earned money and public money going down the drain. Despite the promises made at election time, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael...

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (5 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: Is soiléir go bhfuil spiorad nua sa Ghaeilge. Chonaic mé sin nuair a bhíos ar an gcomhchoiste leis an Teachta Ó Snodaigh, a raibh mar Chathaoirleach air. Bhí sé mar onóir dúinn bualadh leis na scoláirí sna Gaelcholáistí agus sna scoileanna, go háirithe iad siúd i mBaile Átha Cliath agus Béal Feirste. Gan dabht,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Meetings (6 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: 188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has met with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities to discuss rising energy prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10401/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Programme for Government (6 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: 189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the measures in the Programme for Government to conduct an independent review of the speed and level of passthrough from wholesale prices to retail prices in the energy sector; when he anticipates this review will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10402/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Meetings (6 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: 190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has met with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities to discuss rising wholesale gas and electricity prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10403/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (6 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered reintroduction of the temporary solidarity contribution and the cap on market revenues in response to rising wholesale gas and retail prices in the energy market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10404/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (6 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the number solar PV provided in each of the years from 2020 to date in each of the SEAI’s solar PV schemes, broken down by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10411/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (6 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: 193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to move to a plan-led approach to solar development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10417/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (6 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: 194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of the number and value of grants that have been awarded to the retrofitting of multi-unit dwellings as part of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland community energy grant scheme in each of the years 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (6 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: 195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of the number of applications his Department has received for the retrofit of multi-unit dwellings as part of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland community grant scheme in each of the years 2020 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10419/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Supply Board (6 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: 196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has calculated the impact that the carbon border adjustment mechanism will have in imported electricity from Britain; the amount by which he anticipates the cost to rise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10420/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (6 Mar 2025)

Pa Daly: 211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport about any underspend in his capital allocation in each year from 2019 to date in 2025, by sub-headings, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10240/25]