Results 1-4 of 4 for solar power speaker:Cathal Berry

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Berry: ...That is the first question. Second, I was concerned by the testimony of the EirGrid CEO, Mark Foley, before the Oireachtas committee yesterday. He said he cannot get companies to build the new power plants that we need from an energy security point of view. That is a big issue from a security perspective. Third and perhaps most concerning of all, there is a perception out there -...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Berry: ...the large energy companies are dusting down the ordinary people. Those are the three things - the cost, the energy security and whether we can cut out this middle guy, whether we can provide more solar panels for people and literally give power to people. I want to focus on two programmes in particular. The first is the schools solar panel programme. It is an excellent programme in...

Annual Transition Statement: Statements (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Berry: ...EU is resilient from an energy security and energy independence perspective. Other Deputies mentioned the importance of farming. This country is already feeding the world. We may as well power the world too while we are at it. If we think back to what our grandparents did, they electrified the land with the establishment of the national grid. It falls to our generation now to...

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Cathal Berry: ...on fossil fuels we also have an under-accessibility issue from a fossil fuels point of view, which is a kind of perfect storm from an energy perspective. We have also closed down a number of power plants in the past 12 months and I would argue this perhaps was done prematurely. Plan B was not in place before plan A was shut down. I am absolutely in favour of the just transition but...