Results 901-920 of 12,709 for speaker:Paul Murphy
- 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-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: Well, what do I have a fixation on?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: What do I have a fixation on? If it was not climate change, what do I have a fixation on?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: So-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: I have a fixation on climate change, and if the Minister's point is that I have a fixation on fossil fuels, yes, I do, because fossil fuels are what is driving the vast majority of climate change. He is proposing, as Minister for the environment, who has responsibility for climate action, to import the dirtiest fossil fuel possible. That is what he is proposing. He is saying now to not...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has carried out, commissioned, or consulted on any research into the likely climate impact of US LNG imported into Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17929/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: 25. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether a commercial LNG facility along the lines of Shannon LNG is compatible with the State’s legally binding greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17927/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: I asked the Minister previously if he was aware of the emissions impact that US LNG would have here, which is estimated to be at least 33% worse than coal. He initially ignored the question and then waffled on about it depending on various factors. I am asking again, more precisely, what research his Department has carried out, whether commissioned or consulted, into the likely climate...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: I was at a Dáil Business Committee meeting.