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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Why was this issue not caught in the previous review?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That was my question. I simply asked why this issue was not considered in the previous review.

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I also welcome that this legislation is before us. I applaud the decision of the people of Limerick in 2019 to vote to have a directly elected mayor. It is auspicious. It is surprising that Limerick is the first place in Ireland to introduce the new system, given the independent, progressive, politically innovative spirit of the city that was...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Third Level Fees (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I will begin by commending the more than 200 graduate entry medical students who wrote to the Minister in October to highlight the extremely urgent issues and problems with the current fee model for graduate medical studies in this State. In their letter they highlighted that: "GEM students are not eligible for SUSI (or any other similar student...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Third Level Fees (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The measures the Minister of State outlined are about engagement with the institutions but not providing support to the individuals.The concern is that we are in a situation whereby the discussion is as if this education was a commodity rather than a pipeline for an essential public service. I have sat in committees where we talked about the lack of doctors and yet there does not seem to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will begin with a question to which I am seeking a short answer and will then address my other questions. What is Mr. Foley's understanding of common but differentiated responsibilities under the Paris Agreement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is a fundamentally important question because Ireland's energy and environmental policies are meant to be in line with common but differentiated responsibilities. This is a core part of the Paris Agreement. The understanding most have of common but differentiated responsibilities is that wealthier countries and those that have benefited from high energy use in the past should be doing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: They are questions about physical capacities. It is as real as a market limitation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The demand has come from large energy users-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: -----and the increase has not come from homes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We have had breakdown and we know that a huge amount of the increase has come from large energy users. Other countries are also hoping to have economies which grow, but without energy demand increase.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Could Mr. Foley specifically answer on connections? I want the most important question to be answered. It is the question in relation to additional gas plants attached to the grid.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: If I could have just one question answered, it would be that one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Does Mr. Foley believe it is an adequate solution to pressure on the grid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am just asking whether it is an adequate solution to pressure on the grid.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Is it an adequate solution?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Perhaps Mr. Foley could provide the view in writing, if there is not time now. That would be great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is helpful. I thank Mr. Foley.