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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to reduce the price of electricity and energy for households and businesses over the coming months; if he has examined introducing a price cap on electricity in Ireland or introducing other market reforms or interventions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45782/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I ask the Minister his plans to reduce the price of electricity and energy for households and businesses over the coming months, if he has examined introducing a price cap on electricity in Ireland or introducing other market reforms or interventions, given the market is broken, and if he will make a statement on the matter.

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I move: "That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the refusal of the Government to reduce and cap electricity prices leaves households facing into an extremely worrying and uncertain winter, and this is particularly the case for those who simply cannot afford to retrofit their energy inefficient homes; — emissions from the residential sector amounted to 11.4 per cent of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses very much for their attendance. To pick up on the issue of standing charges, the Minister for Finance stated yesterday that the energy companies must justify those standing charge increases. I raised questions with the Minister previously regarding standing charges and he pointed to the CRU. We heard today from the commission that it does not have responsibility in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: The order of magnitude sounds right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: How far back can we go on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Has the CRU assessed how much that would bring in at €180 per megawatt hour? How much would the PSO levy bring in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Inframarginal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Has CRU conducted any of its own surveys?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Surveys on self-reported self-disconnection

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I know that the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has looked at patterns of continuous periods of not topping up. Has CRU looked into that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: There was a question that was not answered. It was my first question, which concerned to whom the energy companies justify the increase in standing charges-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: -----and how they do it. Is it the case that it is done through the market and that there is no authority?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households and businesses that are generating electricity through microgeneration; if all energy suppliers are now paying microgenerators for the excess electricity that they are exporting to the grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45786/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he intends to recoup the excess profits being made by renewable electricity generators contracted under the renewable energy feed-in tariff schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45788/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that he is taking to increase public and community-owned and led renewables projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45787/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the energy security review will be published; the immediate actions that he will take to improve the State’s energy security and independence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that he opposed decoupling gas from electricity prices at the European Energy Council in October 2021; if he now supports the proposal to decouple gas from electricity prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45785/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Programmes (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding that Ireland has applied for under the REPowerEU programme; the projects for which the funding would be allocated towards; the maximum amount of funding that Ireland is entitled to under this programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46013/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 8 September 2022, if he will confirm that 3,678.966MW of renewable energy production is contracted under the renewable energy feed in tariff schemes, and is therefore not obliged to refund the Public Service Obligations if the wholesale electricity price is higher than the...