Results 221-240 of 1,022,796 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Christopher O'Sullivan OR speaker:Paul Murphy) in 'Committee meetings'
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: Regarding the easier wins, the carbon tax is controversial. I would always defend it because of what carbon tax is ring-fenced for and where it is intended to go. One of the places it is intended to go is the warmer homes scheme which is aimed at making older houses or houses for older people on payments like fuel allowance more efficient. Obviously, we know there are massive delays in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: The rate of pace of getting them-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: Is there any strategy to reduce that waiting time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: Deputy Kenny touched on the issue of biomethane gas. As the Minister knows, I introduced a Bill in the Dáil on anaerobic digestion because I genuinely see the potential for it in rural areas to be done on almost a co-operative basis with farms, distilleries, chicken farms or whatever basically being the input into these anaerobic digesters and then having the digestate for fertiliser....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: We are not condoning any of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: The experience regarding anaerobic digestion is that the controls are far tighter and the levels expected far higher than those in the UK and Europe. That is why we are seeing a more widespread roll-out of the technology in Europe. We might touch on that later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. I will start with the EPA report and the EU targets, which are relative to 2005 rather than our 2018 targets. The EPA is saying that with the existing measures we would achieve a reduction of 9% by 2030 and with additional measures it would be 25%, down from 30% that was estimated last year. Will the Minister outline the range of fines we are looking at if, for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: I agree with that, but the Government that is putting money away in a rainy day fund as opposed to investing to do it now. That does not make sense from a point of view of the economics involved, quite apart from the need to have a liveable future for humanity. Putting money away now and not spending it, and as a consequence being hit with fines that run into the billions, does not make...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: But this is with additional measures. This is the stuff on which it was promised that money would be spent. At the moment, however, it is not planned to spend the money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: The EPA report tells us that even with everything the Government is planning to do and with all the additional measures, we will still be miles away from where we need to be legally in the context of our national and EU targets and even further away from where we should be in terms of the science. That is the bottom line. It is a damning indictment not just of the Government in general but...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: The Minister raised the point about Dún Laoghaire and the living streets, or whatever project it was in Dún Laoghaire. He raised that with me in the Dáil before and I went to check it. We have one councillor in Dún Laoghaire and she voted in favour of that project. As for offshore wind, we are in favour of the development of offshore wind but, in this case, there are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: No. It is anything but brave decision-making. The children will pay the price for the lack of action by this Government. That is the truth. The Minister can try to lull people to sleep and pretend that everything is going to be okay, but it is not. We are heading towards an absolute catastrophe and the Minister is not telling the truth to people. The EPA report tells the truth to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: That is nonsense.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: The Minister stood by the Rossport Five and then sold them out when he was in government. That is what that is about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: I was battened off the streets by the gardaí because-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: We are going to move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: What about the question on private jets?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: We all agree that it is a threat to our future. We will move on to the second round. The first person to indicate was Deputy Whitmore.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: I ask the Minister to be quick because other people want to contribute.