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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I am very conscious of that. When there are entities and corporations that are prepared to invest their own capital in such schemes, it is an appropriate way to progress and grow our economy. We see the same in housing. It is about bringing in private capital to support infrastructure. It allows us to move more quickly and ensures that the State is not left funding all of it. For that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: The Deputy has raised an important point on the environmental aspect, and the construction of certain structures can have that ability to pull together those microsystems. Part of my role in the Department is about ensuring that we meet our commitments - Deputy Whitmore will be familiar with this - in regard to the marine protected areas, an important feature and commitment that we have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: We have skipped ahead. I will have to get that for the Deputy. I do not seem to have that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I will have to get that. Does the Leas-Cheann Comhairle want to go on to the next one and I will come back to that?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nuclear Plants (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: There seems to be an issue with my questions here.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nuclear Plants (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I may be required to do that. The Deputy has raised the important issue of-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nuclear Plants (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: Yes. Nuclear fission-powered electricity generation plants are prohibited in Ireland. The use of nuclear fission for the generation of electricity in Ireland is statutorily prohibited under section 18(6) of the Electricity Regulation Act 1999. It is also of note that no action on nuclear power was included as part of the programme for Government in 2025, Securing Ireland's Future. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nuclear Plants (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I thank both Deputies. I know of their personal interest because both of them, on many occasions, have spoken to me about the necessity to look at that. The Government has taken a decision, and it is a decision that is probably based on historical context, going back to the early seventies when there were proposals at Carnsore to build a nuclear facility and there was a very significant...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nuclear Plants (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: If you look at the capacity to generate so much electricity, particularly but not exclusively off our west coast, it far outweighs the issues around nuclear. I am also conscious-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nuclear Plants (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: -----of how difficult it is, and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will appreciate this-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nuclear Plants (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: -----to get permission for a wind turbine. Failing to get permission for a wind turbine and introducing a small-scale nuclear reactor-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nuclear Plants (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: -----might not be that much easier.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: Wind generation is supported mainly through the legacy renewable energy feed-in tariff, REFIT, schemes and the renewable electricity support scheme, RESS, and funded also through public service obligations, PSO. These supports are a critical enabler of the investment needed to underpin a renewables-led energy system. Over the 2025-26 PSO year, the Commission for Regulation of Utilities...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: The Deputy will be aware that with the passage of the national marine planning legislation back in 2021, where we introduced the approach through the designated marine area plans, the approach to identifying those sites and the approach to engaging with stakeholders in a very open and transparent way, it has worked well. Our first DMAP was launched in this House in October of last year and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Deputy McCarthy and note his interest in this important issue. The south coast designated maritime area plan, DMAP, was adopted by the Oireachtas in 2024 and designates four development areas for fixed-bottom offshore wind development. An auction process is due to commence on 22 September for the first of these areas, the so-called Tonn Nua site, with capacity for a 900 MW offshore...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I know the Deputy's interest and concern in this from conversations and consultations that I, other Ministers and the Department have had with those who will seek to build out these facilities. The next auction, as I said, will be later this year. We are hopeful there will be a number of bidders. The important thing then for those who do not win is that they see a further opportunity. One...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I do not have that information available to me today but I am happy to come back to the Deputy directly with it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Deputy for pointing that out. That has been a feature. As we go to the air to water systems the costs are significant but the long-term rewards are real. When homes are brought up to a higher energy rating and appropriately insulated, there is a significant financial reward over time. When that is coupled with the use of solar panels, that reduces consumption in the first...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: A scheme has been deployed for those most under threat of energy poverty where the entirety of the cost is recovered. That is clearly for those in low income homes, whether they be elderly or significantly dependent on social supports. The Deputy should not hold me to this but I think 25,000 homes have been upgraded in that particular sphere. That is an area that can be looked at. This...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (18 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: The home energy upgrade loan scheme, HEULS, was launched in April 2024. It is intended to play a crucial role in helping homeowners invest in their energy upgrades to make their homes warmer, healthier and more comfortable with lower emissions and lower bills. It was developed by my Department in conjunction with the Department of Finance, Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, SBCI,...