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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: I thank our guests. The questions I had intended to ask have broadly been covered but there are some more I wish to ask. On the figures that have been given both at this meeting and in other forums regarding the cost of options and the comparative analysis Mr. Cunniffe mentioned, the examples of the cost being more than double that in Spain were quite troubling to hear. What are the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: I thank Dr. Carton. It is a logical flow as to what was meant when he said floating to hydrogen. It is good to get an explanation. If there is supporting documentation or views he would like to share with the committee in writing it would be very helpful for our ongoing discussions. If he has anything, sending it to the secretariat would be very much appreciated. I have a follow-up...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: That is fair enough. Perhaps my question was clumsy. I should have been more precise. I take the point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: I thank Mr. Cunniffe for that response. I thank the Chair for his assistance.
- International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: I wish Members a happy International Women's day. European International Women's Day dates back to 1911, which is 111 years ago. The UN first formally observed a global day of recognition in 1977, 45 years ago. Regrettably, we are nowhere reaching its target. While the world has changed dramatically in the years since the first days marking this occasion, and many improvements at home and...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: In light of the Russian war on the people of Ukraine, a conversation has started that was referred to on many occasions in the House in the past couple of weeks as regards our place in the world in a military sense. It relates to whether we should be militarily non-aligned or otherwise. The Taoiseach yesterday referred to the prospect of a citizens' assembly debating this subject and in...
- Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (9 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister for the opportunity to discuss this important motion. In recent years we as a society have become more aware of the corrosive and insidious problem of hate crime and hate speech. The advent of social media has connected the world in ways that until recently were beyond imagination. Unfortunately this is not the first war to be seen on social media but it certainly...
- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. The pandemic uprooted the lives of everybody in Ireland and had a severe impact on our business community. No one will forget particularly March of 2020, when an unprecedented situation befell us. The impacts of the pandemic spared no one and no organisation. Businesses of all sizes faced uncertainty that no one envisaged. I am...
- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: The Deputy is wasting his time.
- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: Okay.
- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
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- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
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- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
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- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: Do not push your luck, Deputy.
- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: There is a certain decorum that is maintained in the House. You will not tell the Chair to shut up.
- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: If you want to fight for your lunch, pick on somebody else.
- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: We now move to Deputy Ó Murchú, who has 20 minutes.
- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: It will be difficult.
- Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)
Alan Farrell: I thank the Deputies. In light of the crash of the servers today and in recognition of the problem that was created, I will grant a recess of ten minutes if that is acceptable to the Deputies.