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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have a fixation on climate change, and if the Minister's point is that I have a fixation on fossil fuels, yes, I do, because fossil fuels are what is driving the vast majority of climate change. He is proposing, as Minister for the environment, who has responsibility for climate action, to import the dirtiest fossil fuel possible. That is what he is proposing. He is saying now to not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I did support the climate Act. The Government is not implementing it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister correct the record in respect of the climate Act?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the role of data centres and capacity payments in pushing up the cost of energy for households and privatising the energy system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17930/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: It was recently reported that householders collectively paid approximately €454 million per year in capacity payments to data centres between 2007 and 2018. Since then, it has more than doubled to €1 billion per year. With 11 more data centres under construction and applications for 30 more, this massive subsidy form ordinary people to data centres is only going to grow. Is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: That sounded like an admission that data centres are pushing up household energy prices. The Minister of State might confirm that the Government accepts that is happening. That means the crazy data centre policy of the Government to allow big tech to come here and dump as much of this 21st century toxic waste as it can is not only driving us further from our climate goals, where the extra...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: On the question of jobs, the Minister of State might confirm how many jobs are directly in data centres. Would I be correct in saying that there are fewer than 3,000 jobs in data centres? For a sector that is going to be using 30% of our electricity by 2030, the waste of electricity and water, and the impact that has on housing construction and other issues, is quite incredible. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: No, it is not. It is not at all.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister of State know how much extra energy we are going to need?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the climate action plan for 2025 will be published; the way in which the actions in it for this year can be implemented when it is four months into the year and it has not yet been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17928/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I am sure I will be very satisfied with the Minister’s answer. We are in April, the fourth month of the year, and the Minister still has not published the climate action plan for 2025. Will the Minister tell me when it is going to be published? What has the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael-Lowry Government taken out from the draft plan that was submitted last December, before they came...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Some 3.5 million pigs are slaughtered in Ireland every year. We do not see them much because they are largely confined indoors, in big metal sheds. However, thanks to undercover investigations by the National Animal Rights Association and Animal Rebellion, we know what is going on inside these sheds, and real horrors are happening to these pigs. Six farms have been randomly selected and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister think this kind of treatment of pigs is acceptable, and will the Government bring in legislation to stop it?

Building Energy Rating (BER) Standards for Private Rented Accommodation Bill 2025: First Stage (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1992 to provide for minimum Building Energy Rating (BER) standards for private rented accommodation and for related matters. My office was first approached by the Irish Green Building Council about bringing in minimum BER standards for the private rented sector. I...

Building Energy Rating (BER) Standards for Private Rented Accommodation Bill 2025: First Stage (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is incredible to listen to TD after TD from the Opposition but also from the Government give out about all the failures of Irish Water, which are very real, and appeal for intervention by the Minister. I will do the same in a moment, but it speaks to the failure of Irish Water as an institution, the only real rationale of which was to take the public assets previously in the hands of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish a report by an organisation (details supplied) reviewing its recommendations in relation to the necessity of LNG for energy security; if he will outline the conclusions of that review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17931/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 324. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the total costs of the trade mission to Nigeria and Senegal in September 2023, including the costs of the research and materials produced as part of the mission.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18234/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action she will take to increase capitation and other funding for schools so they are able to meet their running costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17229/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she supports the objective of providing an additional needs class for every school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17230/25]