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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Conservation (23 May 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...mentioned how difficult it was to reach the B2 standard, but it is possible to get grants that do not require people to do so. For example, it is possible to get a grant for attic insulation or solar panels. The grant for attic insulation is at 80%. There are a range of reasons to go for solar panels, including zero VAT, not requiring planning permission, being able to sell power back...

Seanad: National Parks (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: ...wastewater infrastructure. Other county councils such as Fingal have introduced eco-toilets. These are designed for areas that do not have a requirement for water supply, wastewater connection or power supply. Solar power is used for lighting. These are said to be designed for remote areas, which people frequent, such as beaches, car parks or places with monuments. Bird watching sites...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Prices (17 May 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...in order to connect, which was the standard anyway. I see data centres moving towards using biofuel instead of fossil fuels. Therefore, they have to play their part. With the development of solar, which is spreading very fast now, and the addition of batteries, we have taken VAT off solar panels and batteries. That battery combination with solar, with the smart control system, allows...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Obligation (16 May 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Connolly: 161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment why the PSO levy has not been removed from the ESB bills in view of the effectiveness of the wind energy and solar power in recent years; what plans are in place to remove the PSO levy in totality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23158/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Interest Rates (9 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...party leader, the Tánaiste, called for mortgage interest relief rates to be increased when he was on this side of the House but, again conveniently, he forgot all about that when he got back into power. The Minister made the point that budget time is the appropriate time to examine this, but there have been changes at other times and the Finance Bill passed in the Seanad just a few...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

...international competition and tensions. Notably, revisionist actors such as the Russian Federation, which are dissatisfied with the present geopoliticalstatus quoand seek to tilt the balance of power in their favour at the expense of European states, are using a variety of instruments generally understood to be grey zone techniques. The grey zone as a concept is the spectrum of hostile...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Darren O'Rourke: ...countries that are being more aggressive in terms of the individual thresholds within the measures. I can point to France, which is introducing a threshold of €100 per kilowatt hour for wind, solar, and nuclear. Ireland will introduce a threshold of €120. More importantly, we can point to other European countries which tackle the super excess profits that were made in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...and how we can accelerate, there are changes happening. Last year was the greatest expansion in renewables we have seen in our history. Last Thursday, for the first time, we could start to see solar power having an influence. Last Thursday afternoon, 10% of our power demand was provided by solar power. We are only at the very start of the roll-out of the significant new solar capacity...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wind Energy Generation (27 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...developed much quicker and much faster. However, we also developed renewables onshore. Within in a European context, we are in the top three countries in integrating new variable renewable power. We are actually quite successful in this area of renewable development, but that success now moves to both solar and offshore energy in particular. The Deputy is right. We have a real...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (27 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...mainly to the construction of renewable generation sources and their successful integration onto the electricity grid. Ireland is ranked in the top five countries in the world for installed wind power capacity per capita and is a world leader in the integration of variable renewable electricity onto the grid. While the National Development Plan Review committed to increasing the share...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (27 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...a major reason for this being the construction of renewable generation sources and their successful integration onto the electricity grid. Ireland is in the top five globally for installed wind power capacity per capita and is a world leader in the integration of variable renewable electricity onto the grid. The recent Climate Action Plan Update, CAP 23, commits Ireland to achieving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Sectoral Emissions Ceiling: Discussion (26 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

...of charging points. People in rural communities are more likely than others to have the space to have a home charger. More and more people in the agricultural sector in rural Ireland are putting solar panels on the roofs of milking parlours, barns, sheds and so on, and generating power. That power can be used to charge their electric car, if they have one, on site. We are not...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Apr 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...sectors until 31 August 2023 and for the continuation of the application of the 0% rate of VAT to the supply of Covid-19 testing kits. Finally, this section provides for the 0% rate of VAT on the supply and installation of solar panels. At the request of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael McGrath, agreed to the 0% rating...

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...vehicle can be charged. The cost for the charging of that vehicle will be approximately €42. The person who owns the business and has gone to enormous expense to have the ESB upgrade his or her power supply so that he or she will be able to have this charger, which will have cost him or her €42,000, will get a minuscule amount from this, on which 50% or 60% tax will be paid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

...in the crisis situation we did indeed keep in mind the longer term and the need to decarbonise. This is why I also briefly referred to the other proposals the Commission made, including, for example, REPowerEU, which puts a strong emphasis on getting renewables in place rapidly. I refer to rapid investment in this regard and the provisions we proposed for permitting to speed up...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Action Plan (EPAP) sets out the range of measures that have been implemented across Government to ensure that those most at risk of energy poverty are supported and protected to adequately heat and power their homes. The implementation of the EPAP is being monitored by a cross-Departmental Steering Group, chaired by my Department. Budget 2023 saw the highest ever allocation to...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, and very much led by my Secretary General at the time, Dr. Orlaigh Quinn, we put bees on the roof to produce our own honey and have plans to put solar on the roof as well. I would like us to do the same in Government Buildings. It is a big roof space. I have been up there. There is an old helipad from the past that is no longer used...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: In the first area, namely, climate, next month we will have the first auction for offshore energy and set in place the mechanism for us to power the country securely into the future. It is working out for the tens of thousands of people who are starting to switch to the solar revolution because we changed the rules to make that viable and practical and to deliver it. In retrofitting, we are...

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...collectively and we share one atmosphere. While I would have preferred if additional climate actions were brought in to make up our numbers in the last decade before the Green Party was in power, that did not happen and, as a result, there was a deficit in 2020 of 4 megatonnes of CO2. This has been made up by buying surplus emissions from Slovakia and this deal was made on 14 February....