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Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (17 Dec 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...build them. As for bureaucracy, now we talk about changing planning laws. The Minister, Deputy Ryan, talked about a 10% or a tenfold increase on the amount of renewables. We have heard it all before. It is so far away. I want renewables, renewable energy,including wind energy, solar energy and wind from wave power. When will it happen? It is all tied up in knots and reams. There...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...oil investors and dismantled all of them, yet he has no diversification plans. There are many people out there crying. Businesses, households and everybody else are trying to diversify and put in solar panels and many generators, turbines and everything else. Many have, and the Government refused to pay these people supplying electricity back to the grid. It was only this July that...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...fanacht oraibh, they are waiting for them in the long grass. They might not have the light to see them or enough batteries to see them coming in. The Deputies might have head torches on from some kind of solar power, if they go near them at all. I do not believe they will. Let us take the country and our economy, from hotels and catering to butchers, abattoirs, agriculture and...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...We are ten Deputies, as Deputy Verona Murphy said earlier, and we are regarded as laggards, blackguards, backward, gombeen men and whatever else. What have we seen since the Government came into power? It can blame the Ukraine war or whatever it likes, but this was always coming. Last October, we sought a debate on these issues, as did anyone who is in business or who knows anything...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 501. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his Department's targets regarding the provision of energy through solar power to the national grid; the number of applications to join the national grid from potential supplies of solar power in County Tipperary from solar farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30923/17]

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (19 Feb 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...afford. The increase in cost is very foolish. In recent years I have proposed a tax incentive for ordinary homeowners who want to upgrade their houses, such as through retrofitting for green energy and solar panels or upgrading them through extensions. Allowing people to claim a tax deduction on these would kill the black economy and stimulate the economy. It would also support small...