Results 4,001-4,020 of 4,047 for speaker:Pa Daly

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: Does the Minister need a task force to implement all the measures to reduce energy bills, particularly standing charges? Does he accept that the PSO levy needs to be reformed and he does not need a task force to advise him on that? His party's election manifesto mentioned-----

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: -----seven or eight ideas-----

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: -----about reducing the PSO, funding the upgrade of the grid and reforming the CRU. None of that has been done.

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: Fiction.

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: That is per year.

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: What is the percentage?

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: I mean what amount can be saved by switching, not the number of people who have switched.

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: Before we leave this one-----

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: The Minister said that Ireland was the-----

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: If the Minister wants, we can get it.

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: Deputy Clendennen is next - step over there. The Minister said we were the eighth highest. According to Eurostat, we have the third highest bills in Europe.

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: But one way or another-----

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: -----the Minister will accept they are €900 a year more and gas prices went up.

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: -----by switching to State subvention. When is any of that going to happen?

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: I mean without having to go to a task force.

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: Was it that Fine Gael told Fianna Fail to rip those promises up?

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: Yes, but what about the election manifesto?

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: But they will not be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: I thank everyone for coming in. We are here to evaluate the prospect reaching our climate targets and look at the barriers in that regard. One of those barriers relates to data centres. We had a situation with Castlebaggot recently in the context of grid capacity. That capacity was originally supposed to be for housing but it is being used up by data centres. Mr. Marley referred to PR6....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Pa Daly: Recently, the capacity relating to many new connections would be taken up by data centres and upgrades would be needed as a result.