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High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...Once there is proper investment in infrastructure, there is not one person in this House who does not wish our energy costs will go down. People do not mind whether it is provided by wind energy, solar energy or any other source of green energy but, like everything else, the Government puts the cart before the horse. Does the Minister of State, Deputy James Browne, know that Ireland is...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...and householder in the country under financial pressure. It closed Shannonbridge and Lanesborough, sold the equipment and now has to bring in emergency legislation because we have not got enough power. If a director of a business made a decision like that, he or she would be gone out the door and fired on the spot. However, the Government just says it made a mistake and will now cost...

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...to the Chamber which was unopposed by the Government and everyone else who was here and who contributed. The motion was to decouple the prices of electricity and gas so that we could get wind and solar energy and fossil fuel energy on two different footings. Everyone in this country can see from their bill that they have, say, 64% renewables. What they did not know until we simplified...

Energy Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...formal concerns or made determinations surrounding a lack of openness, transparency, or competition by market participants; and further calls on the Government to: — immediately implement, in full, the agreed objectives of EU Council Regulation 2022/1854 to: — reduce electricity consumption by power-hungry data centres, which now consume more electricity, 14 per cent of...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...build an enterprise on green energy are having obstacles put in their way. I understand that it is proposed in a Bill on Committee Stage to introduce planning regulations that will allow 60 kW of solar panel power generation. That is not sustainable for any business because any business needs 100 kW of solar panel power. Any house that was built in the 1980s and 1990s would have run on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: To assist Deputy Gould with the issue of permission for solar farms. If farmers, for example, with a 100 acre holding release more than 49% of their land holding, they lose their single farm payment. What happens as a result is that three or four farmers come together. To make it viable to build a solar farm, you need between 180 acres and 200 acres with a high-power line. Often, a...

Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...which a target of 80% is planned. I find that difficult to understand, particularly as demand is set to increase with upcoming demand from data centres, an increase in population and demand for power points to service electric cars. Offshore renewable energy has the answer and all the power generated at sea will be a resource for the economy. The development of power grids that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Planning and Development Management Bill: Discussion (24 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...Ireland's energy requirements. Local Government and councils played their part in the planning framework to make houses more efficient, putting in air to water heat pumps, geothermal systems and solar panels. When it comes to a lot of these systems such as air to water, it goes back to the energy reviews. The current air to water system within a housing system only covers a house up to...