Results 221-240 of 1,022,090 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Jennifer Whitmore OR speaker:Pat Buckley)
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I will go back to the issue of the fines. The Minister said it would be in the range of several billion. Does he have money ring-fenced for those fines? Is there any possibility that it will come from the climate and nature fund? I just want to make sure that there is no possibility 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)
Jennifer Whitmore: Does the Minister have a budget? Has he set aside some money for it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: The Minister also made another point earlier. He said that the policy is now for zero-carbon data centres. Is that the official Government policy or is that something he would like to see? My understanding is that it is not written in stone and that it is not actually the policy of the Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: Has the Minister issued a direction that there should be no additional data centres unless they are proven to be carbon zero? I have issues with the fact they could be taking from the renewable energy that is required for residential homes. From the perspective of what the Minister said earlier, has he issued a direction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: It is just that the Minister said earlier that data centres would be zero carbon, and this was at his request. Is that official Government policy and is it the case that any data centres that apply from now on will have to be zero carbon?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I am conscious that I am going to get stopped.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: All I am looking for is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: The Minister is the one who brought it up. Is it Government policy and the agreed position that all future data centres will be zero carbon?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: So it is not. This is the difficulty.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I absolutely agree. The Minister talks about a lot of different measures-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: -----but they are not being implemented.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: But that is not Government policy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: It is not Government policy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: It is not my suggestion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I am trying to clarify whether what the Minister said earlier is correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: The Deputy is misrepresenting what I said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: The Social Democrats have called for a moratorium until we can have a strategic analysis-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: That was incorrect and I am correcting the record.
- Report of the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Motion (23 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank each of the three speakers for their valuable contributions. It is nice, on the part of the officials, to hear Tara Kelly and her team acknowledged for the work they put into this report.
- Report of the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Motion (23 May 2024)
Question put and agreed to.