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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: She did not. That is not the case.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: No, that is not the case.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: No.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: The Sinn Féin position is in the motion the Minister just agreed to.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: I refer to €25,000 for wealthy people-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: A pensioner couple will get €1,500-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: -----to get their attic insulated.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: He is not answering the question.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: It is for pensioners. That is who I am talking about.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: It is quite incredible that we have a situation whereby the Minister acknowledges the measures to which he referred are needed at this point in time but, in effect, he and the Government have been a barrier to those types of progressive reforms at a European level. Whatever the situation was in October 2021, I think it was clear at that stage, given the European toolbox had been published a...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: What has the Minister been doing for the past year?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: The Minister is right. If I were him, I would not answer the question I was asked. I would not talk about how I and my Government stood in the way of progressive measures and proposals at a European level to address the fact gas is driving prices and this is, in essence, playing into the hands of Putin. Gas is driving the price of electricity. The Government and the Minister have resisted...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: We are proposing a cap and a windfall tax.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: The Minister's proposals will benefit people with holiday homes.
- National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: I thank those who have contributed to this debate. It is notable that neither Fianna Fáil nor Fine Gael could present a speaker. Maybe they do not see the same problems that we do. Maybe they do not represent the same constituents that we do, namely, those who are struggling to access these schemes and to heat their homes this winter. I have to say in response to the Government...
- 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.