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- Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House.
- Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I thank the Acting Chair and thank all the guests. I want to pick-up as well on that quote from Mr. Foley's opening statement, "The demand for electricity in Ireland is that of a normal prosperous, growing economy." On the previous occasion Mr. Foley was before the committee, he told us that the growth in the data centres or the electricity demand was also normal for a European country....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Mr. Foley is retracting what EirGrid said in 2019, that emergency generation would be required to meet the demand of data centres.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: It is in an EirGrid document
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: It is also needed to keep the data centres on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: The document is an EirGrid document from 2019.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Would Mr. Foley accept that the exponential growth in demand has not has not helped?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Okay, I retract "exponential"-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: -----but Mr. Foley told this committee on two occasions that this is normal growth. Yet, when he provided the data to back it up we saw that we are not normal. We are an outlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Does Mr. Foley not believe that economic growth can be decoupled from energy demand?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: The point is that other European countries that have growing economies have reduced their electricity demand and they did so as part of the agreement-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Mr. Foley is the one who made the connection. He told us we cannot have a reduction in demand in electricity because we are a prosperous economy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: No one is saying it is not wonderful that we have gone from when the country was on its knees to a growing economy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: We are having an adult conversation, but it was Mr. Foley who coupled the two.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: However, to feed the growth in demand we need temporary emergency generation, which is expensive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: EirGrid told the data centre lobby - I think the video is publicly available - that it was doing it to help its clients and customers to get projects built.
- Seanad: Defence Forces Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I extend a warm welcome to our guests in the Gallery who are retired members of the Defence Forces and members of Women of Honour: Captain Kieron Rice, Captain Diane Byrne, Captain Amelia McKeown and Roslyn O'Callaghan. They are very welcome. I am sure they look forward to hearing what everybody has to say in today's debate.