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Seanad: Development of Green Technology: Motion (5 Nov 2008)

Dan Boyle: ...identify as being particularly windy — some 35,000 people are employed in the wind energy industry. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation reports that organic farming requires additional manpower compared to conventional high-input systems. Studies of organic farms in Ireland and the UK show that such farms employ up to 1.5 times the number of workers found on conventional farms....

Seanad: Energy Policy: Motion. (9 Jul 2008)

Dan Boyle: ...getting our act together now and I believe policies are in place to make the most of this. The resource that is the sea provides even greater potential in terms of renewable energy through tidal power and wave power. These are developing technologies. If Ireland masters them we can sell them to a wider world, as countries like Germany and Denmark did with wind technology and the...

National Oil Reserves Agency Bill 2006: Second Stage. (22 Jun 2006)

Dan Boyle: ...companies is excluded from the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts, of which I am a member. Although I accept the agency will operate on a self-financing basis, this is only by virtue of its power to collect a levy or tax. For this reason, the activities of the new body should be open to examination by the Committee of Public Accounts, not only on the grounds that it engages in...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: ...energy usage. One of the successes of the Green Party in Germany, in its first term of Government, was the implementation of a programme where the Government fully paid for the introduction of a solar panel in every household. This was done in 1 million households in the course of the four-year term of Government. In Irish terms, that would equate to the Government providing 100,000...