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Arts (Recognition of Comedy) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: Molaim mo chomrádaí an Teachta Aengus Ó Snodaigh as an obair ar fad atá déanta aige ar an mBille seo. Irish culture is much revered around the globe, from our music, our poetry and our plays to our dance. Our culture is synonymous with our identity as Irish people both at home and abroad. Our old rebel songs give us insight into our past, honouring those who came...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: General Scheme of the Renewable Heat Obligation Bill 2025: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: Initially, I see from this proposed Bill that it is very much market-led rather than about the State guaranteeing it. We are looking to the market to look at things. I have a question on the biomethane strategy that was published last year. Is that strategy null and void?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: General Scheme of the Renewable Heat Obligation Bill 2025: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: Okay. If we are serious about renewable heat, the Government should be backing this. I also have a worry about NORA having been appointed to oversee this. NORA's main concern is making sure we have oil reserves. Do our witnesses think it is a good body to be overseeing this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: General Scheme of the Renewable Heat Obligation Bill 2025: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: Its knowledge is linked in with fossil fuels rather than climate, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: General Scheme of the Renewable Heat Obligation Bill 2025: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: I also worry about the cost risks for ordinary householders as well. Let us be honest, suppliers are not going to absorb extra costs. They are going to pass them straight on to householders and we already have so many people in fuel poverty. I worry that this would be a climate policy by some kind of stealth tax and the Bill needs to have stronger consumer protections there. Regarding the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: General Scheme of the Renewable Heat Obligation Bill 2025: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: There is an over-reliance on biomethane and biofuels at the moment. I worry we could have a risk of corporate greenwashing. We need to guarantee that we are going to support sustainability as well. The fact that we still do not have a proper definition of a just transition is something else we should be worried about. The fact that the proposed Bill hands the scheme over to NORA is like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: General Scheme of the Renewable Heat Obligation Bill 2025: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: On what Deputy Clendennen was asking about, namely starting at 1.5%, does the Department believe a sufficient number of companies will be willing to invest, seeing that there is only a small guarantee? We were talking about State investment rather than relying on private investment. Seeing as we are starting so low, it is going to be hard to get investment initially. What guarantee do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: General Scheme of the Renewable Heat Obligation Bill 2025: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: It is not just about giving reassurance but about the State considering investing itself. Ireland used to have the cheapest electricity, but now it is among the most expensive countries. When the ESB was being sold, we were talking about it as if we were selling the State silver. However, it was not just silver because silver, such as Newbridge Silverware knives and forks, does nothing but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: General Scheme of the Renewable Heat Obligation Bill 2025: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: I am talking about the mindset of the Department looking at this being an investment for the State and not just selling off a means of making an income into private hands.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: General Scheme of the Renewable Heat Obligation Bill 2025: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: Okay. I think that is a mistake.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: General Scheme of the Renewable Heat Obligation Bill 2025: Discussion (6 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: When Ms Hamill said the committee's recommendations, did she mean the debates today or are we doing a report?

Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: I am disappointed that the Minister is not accepting our amendments in whole or in part. About 21% of our electricity goes towards data centres. I think I read recently that was set to increase to 30% by 2030. In France and Germany, it is around 3% or 4%. We have to make sure that the increased investment in the grid goes towards the public good. More importantly, amendment No. 2...

Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: First, we support the need for this Bill but objected to the fact that there was no pre-legislative scrutiny. I hope the Minister will look at our amendments in good faith. The ESB must focus on the public good. The Minister will have heard me on several occasions, here and in the planning committee and the infrastructure committee, talking about the need to strengthen the...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (5 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: That would be very good. We had An Coimisiún Pleanála in and we asked about the staffing. It more or less said it felt it was adequately staffed. We have to make sure the onus is not only on the environmental sector. We have climate laws and planning should be adherent to the climate Act. I do not think we should be letting people off the hook, or the Government off the hook,...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (5 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: Let us make sure we do not allow people to apportion blame where it should not be.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Private Sector Construction in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentations. The opening statement suggested that the construction industry has the capacity to deliver 50,000 homes a year. We sometimes hear that we do not have the labour available in this country to deliver 50,000. Are the witnesses saying that we have the labour to deliver 50,000 homes? The reform of the judicial review process is...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Private Sector Construction in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: How many vans of documents would there be in Britain?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Private Sector Construction in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: We have similar law.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Private Sector Construction in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Réada Cronin: That was the first I heard of this on the Shannon thing as well. We have had our public consultation in Kildare and all that.