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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

John McGahon: ...is excellent. I wish to make three other points regarding what the Minister said. They do not relate to the Department in a big way, but they are interconnected. The first point relates to solar power. The Department has done excellent work in removing barriers in the context of planning permission that will make it so much easier for people to get involved in solar energy. One of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2022)

John McGahon: ...County Louth and will be of great benefit to counties Louth, Meath and north Dublin. The whole point of this wind farm is that it is going to generate 1 GW of renewable energy annually, which will power more than 1 million homes and offset 1 billion kg of carbon each year, which is incredible. There is going to be a revolution in renewable energy here in the next decade. By the end of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

John McGahon: ...action with a mother-knows-best attitude, telling people they have to do this for the good of the world, rather than telling people there are huge opportunities in green technology or to put solar panels on your roof, power your home, sell excess energy back to the grid and have a couple of hundred quid at the end of the year. That type of language would be useful to bring people along. ...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (10 Nov 2022)

John McGahon: ...world is and it has revealed many of our energy vulnerabilities. Our geographical position on the periphery of Europe and our wind resources mean that we can actually deliver where the European power market is failing. Europe is now a price taker for hydrocarbon fuels. It depends on parties outside the Union for energy security and that is going to remain the same for the foreseeable...

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

John McGahon: Yes. I tried to think of a witty response to that but I have failed on this occasion. More power to you and fair play if you are willing to make the right decision, as Senator Keogan mentioned, to say that this is the right thing for us to do. It may be a good idea or the right thing to do but it will not get us there any quicker than renewable energy will. If this was a magic bullet that...

Seanad: Energy Security: Statements (2 Nov 2021)

John McGahon: ...rates we have implemented that go a long way towards protecting Irish consumers. Ireland is transitioning from the use of fossil fuels for generating electricity to using a majority of wind, solar and solar renewables. As was said at a recent meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action, natural gas will be used as a backup. Natural gas is deemed to be low carbon....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (7 May 2021)

John McGahon: .... I raise it because the idea and commitments on this issue in the programme for Government are excellent. If we can imagine it in layman's terms, it is the concept of people being able to put solar panels on their homes and businesses and farmers being able to diversify into this area by using some of their land for solar power. They would then be able to take the energy generated and...