Results 1-20 of 26 for solar speaker:Martin Kenny

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...some parts of the building and old aluminium windows in other parts. There is mould growing on the walls. At the same time, it is getting letters from the Department about grants for photovoltaic solar panels. The management does not see the sense in going down the route of putting photovoltaic solar panels into a building from which the heat is leaking. I am sure the Tánaiste...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank Mr. Mahon very much for that reply. Mr. Mahon mentioned the ambition both around solar and wind and that the planning permissions for solar seem to get through more easily and seem to work out more quickly, etc. Does that mean there is potential to do more in that area if there is less resistance and more capacity there? How does the network shape up in respect of that, to be able...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...Minister mentioned that one of the biggest challenges we have is the upgrading of the grid. Is that because we are putting so much emphasis on large-scale renewables as opposed to other options? Solar is an option. Many people are trying to get in on that and are using it in their homes. Smaller businesses are using it as well. Do we need to have as many grid upgrades if we push more...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: A future Minister is an unknown quantity. I thank the Minister of State for his opening statement and the detail he has gone into so far. I will go back to the business solar scheme, which there is great interest in. As the Minister of State said, a whole range of places, including even community centres, are looking at it. It is one of the things we can do that creates great buy-in...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: How much does an applicant have to put up? If a community centre wanted to put solar panels on the roof, how much of the cost can it draw down?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...really want to do it are excluded. Every scheme needs to have criteria, understandably. However, to give an example, a farmer would very easily run up a cost of €30,000 in putting a decent-size solar project on the roof of his or her sheds. The farmer would have to find more than €20,000 of that cost. That could be a difficulty for the farmer.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...of the public is not matched with the support they need. That is not a criticism; it is just reality. If we were able to find better mechanisms of designing these schemes, such as the business solar one, we could get more small businesses in particular to engage with them. There is a positive attitude towards all of this.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (15 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...the people in poorer, and probably colder, houses cannot do that. They feel they are frozen out of it, if the Minister will pardon the pun. He pointed out that one house he went to already had solar panels installed a number of years ago. They were clearly people who had that particular agenda in mind. That is wonderful, but they could clearly afford to do it.

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...and prospects for themselves and this treaty was about guaranteeing their future. That is one of the difficulties. As we develop other industries in green energy, including wind energy, solar energy and so on, there is a lesson to be learned by us, namely, that we should ensure that they are not dominated by big corporations that will want to protect their interests as they move forward....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (25 Oct 2022)

Martin Kenny: 120. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department plans to make supports available for those wishing to introduce solar energy generation on their farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53170/22]

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...three-year waiting list, with more than 9,000 people waiting, tells us there is a problem here. It needs to be adjusted and the Minister needs to ensure that adjustment is delivered. Finally, solar panels and solar PV panels are one of the projects that I know very many people around the country consider doing and would love to be able to do but, again, they find that affordability is...

Annual Transition Statement: Statements (15 Jun 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...we are not here to bicker. We are here to try to find solutions and we must all do so. However, a farmer at the meeting made the point that it is six or seven years since he considered putting solar panels on his sheds and there still is no proper means of doing it. There are no grant facilities available and no means by which he can sell the electricity generated back to the grid....

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...out to them where those opportunities are and how they are going to be delivered. I attended a farmers' meeting approximately four years ago. Someone at that meeting was talking about putting solar panels on the roofs of farmers' sheds and how it was going to be an opportunity for farmers. I have been listening to that proposal since I came into this House in 2016 and it still has...

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: ...policies. We all agree that is what we need to do. I remember being here for a debate on microgeneration, which I think was in 2016 during my first year in the Dáil. It was about people putting solar panels on the roofs of their homes, farmers putting them on the roofs of their sheds, selling it back to the grid and all the benefits of that. Everyone agreed. Five years later, we...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (23 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide information on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and on the review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; if he will provide details of the stated need to consider...

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Sep 2021)

Martin Kenny: ...? This is a point to which we need to give a little thought. The technology involved moves quite quickly. Technology is also moving quickly in terms of how we develop renewable energy. Solar, wind and so on have come a long distance in a short number of years. If we focus all of the efforts and energies of our society and world capital over the next number of years on investing in...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Martin Kenny: ...at the rate at which it needs to be done. The people I meet in rural Ireland who are farming on marginal land want other opportunities. They want to make money and prosper in their communities. Solar farms and solar panels on the roofs of their sheds are issues about which they want to hear good news. However, all they hear about are promises in the distance. They do not hear about...

Forestry (Planning Permission) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2020)

Martin Kenny: ...were doing it, they would not have the expertise. They have the expertise, however, for every other kind of development that arises. If somebody wants to put up wind turbines or install a farm of solar panels, the local authorities have the expertise. A local authority has to dig deep, find the expertise and provide it. In general, they do it very well, yet the Minister is not prepared...

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...fossil fuels cannot be part of our energy production. That means we must stop looking down for our energy and start to look up for it. If we are going to start looking up for it, we must consider solar, wind and other forms of energy supply which do not have that negative impact on our environment. This debate is really about where the emphasis will be. Will it be on continuing to use...