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Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (18 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...whatsoever. Do Ministers not talk to small business owners to understand the difficulties they had, even before the crisis with the oil? The Green Party and the Minister, Deputy Ryan, stopped Shannon LNG, stopped the peat plants and put concrete into the oil pipe at Barryroe, which was an act of national sabotage bordering on treason. We are cutting our noses off to spite our faces....

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ..., low pressure and shut-offs at night time. People cannot understand it. I will go back to gas. My apologies to the Ceann Comhairle. I refer to gas, gas terminals and liquefied natural gas, LNG. There has been such a breach of faith. I am leader of the Rural Independent Group for the time being. I organised a meeting with the current Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál Martin,...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, and lithium. Where are these mined from? The Minister has issues and hang-ups with fracked gas and bringing oil in from Barryroe. He has issues about LNG storage. Does he not mind child labour? I am shocked and appalled by the Members in this House who will not even refer to it. Child labour is used to mine cobalt for these batteries. The children are seven and eight years of age....

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...full carbon tax. Now they are whingeing. They cannot have it both ways. If they vote for these issues and for their pet projects, they see where it ends up. We should open up Barryroe again. We should get Shannon LNG going again and reactivate our peat plants.  Imagine, the peat plant in Lanesborough was dismantled and is now functioning in Poland.  We are importing peat...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...point-blank refusal to cap the prices and take on the utility companies. The Government has refused to bring any of our own oil onshore. The Government promised to bring in liquefied natural gas, LNG, during the last election. It has totally ignored the plight of the public. There is a perilous situation for many families. Schools and small and medium-sized businesses cannot keep...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...This is a citizens' assembly. There is no talk about the cost of the citizens' assemblies. The waste of money is just phenomenal. The Government closed down all the peat plants and the coal burning stations. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae and I asked the Taoiseach if he would re-examine the LNG plant - the answer was "No" - and if he will try to do some harvesting at sea - the answer was...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...that supply of Russian gas? How many days worth of oil are stored in this country? Will the Government reconsider the closure of the peat plants in the midlands, and reconsider the liquified natural gas, LNG, plant, for instance, that would provide an alternative to the gas line that is coming in? The Government needs to look at other areas because we cannot just blindfoldedly sleepwalk...