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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is good. What exactly is required as regards grid upgrades when we are talking about fast chargers and whatever else? I imagine that has an impact on the price we are hearing, which Dr. O'Grady reckons is approximately €200,000 for a fast charger.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That obviously creates a huge difficulty. I suppose the piece of work that needs to be done is to ensure we have that or otherwise we are-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I was going to ask a question regarding how this is absolutely modelled out, but I imagine that is done to a huge level. As I said, it is obviously geographical, time-based and all the rest of it. It is making sure to stay ahead of where the need is going to be, and that creates its own difficulty. Could Dr. O'Grady go into an element of what that looks like in general terms.? If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is just it. Regarding the modelling the Department has done, however, how much detail can Dr. O'Grady go into on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it, and also to deal with people like myself who are incredibly disorganised and might not necessarily have charged the night before.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Right, I get that. This could work out perfectly in the sense that if we move into renewables and have an infrastructure that can play this, we are in a completely different place. We are in the world we need to be in. The big thing, which is almost a repeat of what was said earlier, and I am hearing about pilots and all the rest, is how we facilitate home-charging units for people who do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is no engagement with Louth County Council at the minute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There will be two years of training and testing, but within that, there will be solutions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are talking about four or five local authorities. Within two years, we will move beyond that, while accepting that people will start, watch and take on-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: One can see local authority car parks that now have units for charging. People have got used to it. We are definitely in a different place from where we were a few years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is awfully decent of me, I know. It is just the level of integrity that I bring to the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Plus a deep fat fryer in the back of the vehicle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Did we get an answer on the INTERREG VA programme project?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I think I have used up more than my time. I have a tendency to do that. I am fairly sure that Senator Buttimer will bring Mr. Meally back in to either extol or take apart the grant system and tell us what needs to be changed or not.

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We need to raise the roof. I am not the first Deputy to repeat the following figures: a 15% increase in rents, a 22% increase in house prices and a 19% increase in homelessness. We have all probably taken a look at Daft. Across Louth, there are 18 houses for rent. In Dundalk, the corresponding figure is nine. Anecdotally, in relation to issues I try to deal with, a number of my...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Government will have a fair amount of agreement across this House on the absolute necessity of this legislation. It is difficult to think that anybody will get up and speak against it in the sense that what we are dealing with, as Deputy O'Reilly put well, is a situation whereby employers are robbing the wages of workers. That is abhorrent to most, if not all, right-thinking people. It...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Minister will probably get a great deal of agreement across the House that this process is very rushed. It is lastminute.com. We are dealing with planning. I think we could all accept that we started from a point of having very poor planning regulation in this State. We all know what the impact has been on regular people in that regard. Much of that has been in the public domain for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I wish to raise the issue of workforce planning and how we are obviously lacking in certain skill sets. What is the input from the regional skills framework and from departmental heads in relation to filling those spaces? If we are talking about add-on courses for retrofit and whatever, could we look at apprenticeships from a point of view of fitting them into the actual base...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Adding Chefs to the Critical Skills List Now to Save Irish Hospitality: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I was having my own technical difficulties. I thank the Cathaoirleach and the committee for dealing with this issue . Fair play to Mr. Lynn. This is an issue about which we have all heard at constituency level. I got it from Mr. Lynn. There are a number of hotels and other businesses that are under pressure and that would have contacted me in the past while. We all know the importance...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Adding Chefs to the Critical Skills List Now to Save Irish Hospitality: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is not to take away. Senator Buttimer has played his part in the sense that this meeting is happening.