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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: That is the mooted payment but is that confirmed yet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: What are the electricity companies currently paying per unit for alternative sources of power on a fossil fuel basis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: These companies then are getting good value from the solar power providers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: I am talking here about the idea of electricity providers who are buying the electricity. Is it true to say that they are getting good value?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: I understand that but what are the electricity companies paying for the electricity that they are purchasing and passing on then to the consumer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: I presume that it is more than 13.5 cent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: That is okay. Addressing the Chairman, we mentioned earlier on writing to various Ministers and I am aware that we have a great deal of work on the programme but there are merits in this committee considering the compiling of a report on this issue because there are so many potential benefits from it for the sector in which we have an interest. This issue crosses a number of Departments...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: I am finished now and I thank our guests again.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: The Government has allocated just 60 minutes for the Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022. This is an important Bill. A number of Opposition amendments have been tabled. Sinn Féin tabled amendments that would, for example, reverse the Government-imposed increase in the price of home heating oil that came into place last Sunday and, further, reduce it by...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: On this week's business, an hour is not sufficient to discuss the Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: The Taoiseach regularly states that we need time for legislation. Today, there is a legislative Bill coming before the House to which several amendments have been proposed but only 60 minutes have been allowed to debate them. We will not get through the first amendment. We need to have time to discuss these things.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: Yes.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: There was not. The debate was also guillotined.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: There is a need for comprehensive debate.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: Many people are still reeling from the fact that in the middle of a cost-of-living emergency, the Government has further increased the costs of home heating oil and other fuels this week. Imagine how those families felt when they learned in this morning's Irish Independentthat the Government provided a mechanism for millionaires, with net assets of millions, to put off paying taxes during...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: Workers were not able to warehouse their tax owed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: So the answer to the question is "No".
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: "No" is your answer.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: You increased the cost of home heating oil this week.
- Regulations for the Sale and Distribution of Turf: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: If we are to take the Minister's remarks on their own I am sure the vast majority of people would say they are all laudable aspirations. When people are in government they have to be judged on the results of their words and actions and here are the results of what the Minister, the Green Party and the Government managed to do in recent weeks. The amount of turf that will be extracted and...