Results 1-5 of 5 for solar power speaker:Matt Carthy

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...role in emission reduction targets actually affect other sectors within the climate action plan. Renewable energy generation falls under the energy category. Likewise anaerobic digestion and solar power and forestry, where there has been a lot of debate that it actually falls under the land use, land use change and forestry, LULUCF, category. There is a lack of joined-up thinking as to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (25 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 775. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have leased land for solar power and continue to draw down a partial basic payment in relation to the leased land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53504/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Matt Carthy: ...to overcome the difficulty. Returning to a point I was making, we, in essence, have a law that is preventing the extraction into the national grid of electricity that has been generated through solar power. This is crazy. There has been a great amount of talk about potential farm diversification benefits. If anything, one would have a fear that there would be no actual food...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Matt Carthy: These companies then are getting good value from the solar power providers.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (20 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: 170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports available via the SEAI to farmers for the purposes of introducing solar power to their farms; the total funding of these schemes and grants; the number of applications for such schemes and grants that have been received from farmers for each of the years 2016 to 202 and to date in 2021; the number of...