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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the climate action plan for 2025 will be published; the way in which the actions in it for this year can be implemented when it is four months into the year and it has not yet been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17928/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I am sure I will be very satisfied with the Minister’s answer. We are in April, the fourth month of the year, and the Minister still has not published the climate action plan for 2025. Will the Minister tell me when it is going to be published? What has the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael-Lowry Government taken out from the draft plan that was submitted last December, before they came...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I did support the climate Act. The Government is not implementing it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister correct the record in respect of the climate Act?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the role of data centres and capacity payments in pushing up the cost of energy for households and privatising the energy system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17930/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: It was recently reported that householders collectively paid approximately €454 million per year in capacity payments to data centres between 2007 and 2018. Since then, it has more than doubled to €1 billion per year. With 11 more data centres under construction and applications for 30 more, this massive subsidy form ordinary people to data centres is only going to grow. Is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: That sounded like an admission that data centres are pushing up household energy prices. The Minister of State might confirm that the Government accepts that is happening. That means the crazy data centre policy of the Government to allow big tech to come here and dump as much of this 21st century toxic waste as it can is not only driving us further from our climate goals, where the extra...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: On the question of jobs, the Minister of State might confirm how many jobs are directly in data centres. Would I be correct in saying that there are fewer than 3,000 jobs in data centres? For a sector that is going to be using 30% of our electricity by 2030, the waste of electricity and water, and the impact that has on housing construction and other issues, is quite incredible. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: No, it is not. It is not at all.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister of State know how much extra energy we are going to need?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Minister has a very simple question in front of him. For the benefit of anyone watching these proceedings from outside the House, he receives the question in advance and his civil servants write an answer. The question asked whether the Minister and the Department have carried out, commissioned or consulted any research into the likely climate impact of US energy imported into Ireland....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I do.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: The message-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Come on.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Yes, I have a fixation on climate change.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Climate change is going to destroy the lives of our children.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is going to make----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: -----the earth effectively largely uninhabitable for all but the richest. That is the trajectory we are on. I have a fixation on climate change, absolutely.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Minister should have a fixation on climate change.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: You should-----