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Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ...we do not do that. The Minister should put much more emphasis on delineating all the green jobs that are available. That is the positive side of this. Each Department should set targets for retrofitting, solar panels, alternative crops, wave and wind energy and all the areas that can provide green jobs. I ask the Minister to respond on that later. We should have targets and...

Seanad: Climate Action: Statements (5 Nov 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: ...of houses or an estate is very logical in the case of social housing and, if it can be done, the private sector. There is certainly a strong case for continuing with the process of retrofitting. Solar panels are interesting. My neighbour, who is a farmer as well as a private homeowner, recently installed them and anticipates that he will have paid for them in seven years. There will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Forthcoming General Affairs Council: Minister of State (25 Sep 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: ...provide moral leadership and coax and encourage. I am interested to hear the Minister of State's response on this. Money spent on innovation and research is critical. We must accept that nuclear power must be a major part of the solution. We must all accept the recent UN reports on climate change. If one accepts the gravity of the situation and the imminent danger to our people, and...

Seanad: Energy Security and Climate Change: Motion (7 Nov 2007)

Joe O'Reilly: ...thrust of the two previous contributions, and from all reasonable debate on this area, that in future there must be a push for increased use of geothermal energy in housing and on a larger scale in power stations. There should be an increase in grants to entice developers in the construction industry to use the greener home scheme as much as possible in new projects. The Government must...