Results 281-300 of 4,528 for speaker:Pa Daly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: There has been a staggering increase in cocaine detection - up 37% between 2019 and 2024 - while at the same time, cannabis detection is going down. Obviously, there is more cocaine in society but is that because of an increased number of drug-specific detections being used by An Garda Síochána?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: What are the bureau's priorities over the next five years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: Mr. Quigley said that in the region of 33% of road crashes involve alcohol. Does he know the percentage that involve drugs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: No.

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: The response of the Government in this amendment is vague in places and downright inaccurate in others. The amendment is an insult to the millions of ordinary workers and families who are bracing for another round of energy hikes and to the hundreds of thousands of households that are falling further behind on their energy bills with each passing month and many more who are barely scraping...

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Irish energy prices are amongst the highest in Europe leading to an extra €500 on household bills and is a leading factor in Ireland's cost-of-living crisis; — the number of households in arrears are at their highest level since records began with 300,000 households in arrears on their electricity bills and 185,000...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Prices (23 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: 132. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is taking to avoid the spike in arrears that the Commission for Regulation of Utilities said was likely following the decision to withdraw energy credits this winter (details supplied). [50320/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (23 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: 193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for a company (details supplied) prohibiting hackney drivers who are small public service vehicle licence holders from accessing and operating on its platform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50374/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (23 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: 500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for a detailed update on the status of each of the 18 facilities that have been grated funding under round 1 of the National Biomethane Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49727/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Data Centres (18 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: 84. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is taking to address the concerns raised by senior Government officials regarding the impact of data centres on household bills and housing development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49203/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Data Centres (18 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: Officials warned that the Government’s approach to data centres is posing a threat to housing targets and driving up our energy costs. Does the Government plan to continue to bury its head in the sand or is it going to tackle this head on? I am not sure which Minister of State is going to take this question, but if it is the Minister of State, Deputy Dooley, I was listening to him on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Data Centres (18 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: The large energy users the Minister of State is talking about are relatively getting off the hook and they are pushing up household bills. In a confidential memo recently released to us under a freedom of information, FOI, request, the Secretary General of the Department of public expenditure warned that soaring electricity demand, largely attributable to data centres, is forcing the State...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Data Centres (18 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: Why then is the Secretary General of the Department saying what is being said and that housing is being threatened by the larger users of electricity? The current proposal in price review 6 is to increase network charges for households. Presumably, the Minister of State does not disagree with that. At the same time, the proposal is to decrease charges relatively for data centres. This is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (18 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: The Government could not have had a more targeted measure than the energy credits that we have had for the last number of years and people are facing the same if not higher energy prices now. The Government continues to blame everyone apart from itself for it. The costs are due to political choices about whose energy needs get prioritised, who pays and who is protected. However, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (18 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: 82. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is taking to address the fact that 300,000 households are in arrears on their energy bills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49202/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (18 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: Household bills are 70% above what they were in 2022 and the value of arrears has jumped by almost 50%, even with the electricity credits each winter. There are 300,000 people in arrears. The Government has said it does not want electricity credits to be the new normal but the rise in prices and the number of people in arrears are an emergency and not normal either. This demands an...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (18 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: It is more than unfortunate the Minister is not here in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis to address the concerns of people who are really struggling in an emergency. Over the summer households have been hit with a spate of emergency hikes from Energia, Flogas, Pinergy and SSE Airtricity. They have been told they can expect another at least another €200 to be whacked onto...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Inland Fisheries (18 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: 118. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he has taken in response to the fish kill on the River Blackwater; if he has met with Inland Fisheries Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49106/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Infrastructure (18 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: 130. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is taking to prepare for the impact of storms this upcoming autumn, winter and beyond; the further measures he is taking to ensure that people are better protected than they were in 2024; if he has met with the Minister for Social Protection to discuss the humanitarian assistance that will be available in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (18 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: 110. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to report on the low-cost loan retrofitting scheme; to report on the scheme's uptake since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49104/25]