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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...They mentioned the issue of conveying the message that there is a threat to our critical infrastructure and national grid. Mr. Fitzgerald mentioned the €2,400 grant for households to install solar panels on roofs. Many of the people who come into my office cannot afford the upfront fee so they cannot apply for the grant. If the worse came to the worst, I do not want a situation...

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

Réada Cronin: ...State from the threat of shortages that, in turn, threatens inward investment, as IDA Ireland has warned. This Government is all show and spin. The visionaries who set up Ardnacrusha hydroelectric power station and gave us rural electrification must be turning in their graves at how their legacy was frittered away for the sake of ease and international popularity. In its panic, this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I wish to follow on from Deputy Whitmore's question on solar power for the medically vulnerable. What are the witnesses' opinions on the fact that storage batteries are not provided with panels? Is it not a waste not to have a battery provided at the same time, particularly for people who are medically vulnerable?

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...to make that not happen. We decide the budgets, the limits and the laws that will decide our planet's future and that of every human and animal life form that lives on it. We politicians have the power to obliterate human civilisation or to save and though it will not be popular or comfortable, it definitely will not be managed by latté-levy sound bites, because the responsibility...