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Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...on massive opportunities in Ireland. We are talking about future proofing our finances. We are neglecting drilling for minerals and oils off our coast and we have a Minister who objected to the LNG facility for the Shannon Estuary. Think about the massive boost that would have been to Ballylongford, Moyvane, all of north Kerry up into Limerick and Clare, down into south Kerry, mid Kerry...

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...supply of it gets shorter and shorter. I do not want to let this opportunity go without reminding the Minister of State and her Government what the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, did with Shannon LNG, which would have given us a surety of energy in this country. He sabotaged it. He purposely, meaningfully and deliberately set out to sabotage it. The Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...or locally in politics. We saw that when the Tánaiste, Deputy Martin, went to north Kerry and made promises before the last general election that he was going to support a liquefied natural gas, LNG, facility and then he turned around, the minute the election was over, and did a U-turn and abandoned north Kerry, south Kerry, east Kerry, mid-Kerry, and every part of Kerry. He does...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: ...Gas Networks Ireland. Though this transition might seem benign, it is inextricably linked to a larger more ominous issue, which is the Government's puzzling reluctance to fully support the Shannon LNG gas facility. Let us be crystal clear. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have deceived and sabotaged the Irish public with their energy policy. Their fingerprints are all over the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (21 Feb 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way he plans to collect the windfall tax from those supplying the gas by LNG importation into the EU; if his attention has been drawn to the impact such EU legislation is having on the supply of natural gas supply and thus to the Irish consumer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8335/23]

Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...a simple fact. Why are we paying 50% more for energy in Ireland? Why does it cost 50% more to produce energy here than anywhere else? Why in the name of God did the Government not go ahead with the Shannon LNG facility to give us surety of supply? It should give us a chance and for God's sake try to let us have a bit of independence. The message this Government is giving people is...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Dec 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...a massive opportunity. I do not necessary blame all members of the Government for what has happened, but the Minister of State knows as well as I do that a major opportunity was lost with Shannon LNG. We had a great system in place. In 2016, the previous Government, in its programme for Government, supported a liquefied natural gas, LNG, facility in the Shannon region. However, due to...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...Taoiseach went around places like Tarbert, Ballybunion, Ballylongford, Lisselton and down into Listowel. He told the people when he was canvassing that if he was elected and formed a Government, delivering an LNG facility would be one of the policies he would pursue. He said he would deliver it. What the Taoiseach did, in respect of what I had ensured was in the programme for Government...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...go into, or are already in, homeless accommodation. I have no confidence in the Government because of that. The Government did a massive U-turn on a promise it gave before the election on Shannon LNG. I have no confidence in the Government because of that. Coal is going to cost €40 per bag. The Government's answer is stop people purchasing turf that they might be able to...

EirGrid, Electricity and Turf (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...to have people racing to the bottom. Anything of any use or any good that we can supply or do ourselves is rejected because it may be harmful to the environment. In 2016 I was very glad to ensure that Shannon LNG was put into the programme for Government and it was stated as an aspiration that it would be developed by the Government. When the Green Party came into power, it insisted that...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: .... To me, they are the absolute solution. That is why this motion is so important. It is why we want to highlight what is happening and the folly of what is coming out of the Government and the three parties in it. Between the lot of them, they have done more harm to the environmental movement in Ireland and throughout the rest of the world by making us a laughing stock. For instance,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: When the Tánaiste said he was against the Shannon liquefied natural gas, LNG, project, he was nearly the cause of a car accident. I say this because a number of Fine Gael Deputies and councillors headed to the land bank in Tarbert to stand there and to say that they were in support of it. Do his Deputies and councillors have that little influence over him, or does he pay so little heed...

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...had to reopen. Why did they have to open? The Minister did everything he could to shut them down. It was part of Green Party policy, the same as doing away with a proposed liquefied natural gas, LNG, project. The Minister shut that down. These stations had to open in spite of him and we would be in the dark here tonight if it was not for them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...that is so important to what they do everyday. The Minister should not talk to me about energy. We have seen what he has done in the programme in the Government has done with regard to Shannon LNG. He shut that project down. It was in the previous programme for Government in 2016. He is telling everybody to use more and more electricity. What has he done about providing it? He has...

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...(Amendment) Act completely undermines our uncontested need for more gas-fired power and energy generation to ensure continued security of the electricity supply. Now, more than ever, the Shannon liquefied natural gas, LNG, project should be going ahead. What was the Government's answer when it came into office? It was to capitulate and give in to the Green Party. What did the...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ..., the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, and all in the other parties and none who supported that decision will regret for a long time. One of the aims of the programme for Government 2016 was an LNG project for the Shannon Estuary. In the infinite wisdom of Government, we now do not need an LNG project. Of course, we do. I accept that it should not use fracked gas, but there are...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (26 May 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ..., Climate Action and Environment when the proposed review of energy needs will take place in view of the recent announcement in which support is being provided on a moratorium on the proposed LNG project which actually should have started in 2020 but did not take place; and the timeframes and dates that are envisaged for same. [28609/21]

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (2 Sep 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...of their customers? Will the Government think about doing something for them? Would it think about complying with the pledge it gave on 26 June regarding the proposal to proceed with the Shannon LNG facility, a pledge on which it subsequently rowed back at the request of the Green Party? Is there any chance the Government might honour its commitment to establish an Exchequer-funded task...

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Second Stage (15 Jul 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...an over-reliance on hitting the people who least deserve to be hit, the people living in rural Ireland. This new Government has capitulated to the Green Party in dispensing with the proposed LNG terminal at Shannon. I was instrumental in ensuring that this project was promoted in the previous programme for Government. Not only is it not in the current programme, the Government is...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (15 Jul 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: I again condemn the dropping of the Shannon LNG project, which will come back to bite this Government and future Governments because of the security we would have had from that vital infrastructure. It has been thrown out the window quite simply because it was demanded by the Green Party upon entering into government. A very high price will be paid by the Irish people with regard to that...