Results 1-7 of 7 for solar power speaker:Paul Murphy

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Yield (5 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: .... However, the question is whether to use those windfalls now to invest in capital expenditure by building a State construction company and investing in climate adaptation, such as retrofitting, solar panels, renewable power and so on. We should make capital investment but, in doing so, shift our economy onto a different track.

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...companies, including pre-pay, district and communal heating operators, at a level that reduces energy prices to below pre-crisis levels and eliminates profits as a precursor to nationalisation; — transform the Commission for Regulation of Utilities to a people's power agency with a mandate not to promote competition but to ensure the delivery of affordable electricity for all...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: .... It is a company that's profits doubled last year to more than €1 billion. There is no increase in the cost of producing gas and oil and certainly not in the cost of producing energy from wind or solar power. Instead, what is happening is supply and demand. In other words, massive profiteering by the fossil fuel industry internationally taking advantage of the invasion of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...narrow remit of the report is because there were not clear enough indications from the Government on what it will do on public transport. To be clear I am completely on board with retrofitting, solar power and renewable energy. I am sceptical about the focus on electric cars as a way to go. I will also throw in another issue that may be covered by the next item. This is the inclusion...

Early Exit from Peat for Electricity Generation: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...with socialist policies involves changing people's lives for the better and giving people decent and quality jobs in transitioning. For example, boglands have great potential as sources of wind and solar power. We need a proposal from the Government to increase wind and solar production on worked-out bogland with major community involvement along with a range of other investments and...

Climate Change and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...be significantly higher. It has been repeatedly reported that a rise above 2° Celsius could trigger the release of methane from thawing Arctic tundra while the polar ice caps, which currently reflect solar radiation into space, could disappear. This could bring about a negative dynamic feedback effect and increase the speed of climate change. We know this will not just bring...