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Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Darren O'Rourke: ...countries that are being more aggressive in terms of the individual thresholds within the measures. I can point to France, which is introducing a threshold of €100 per kilowatt hour for wind, solar, and nuclear. Ireland will introduce a threshold of €120. More importantly, we can point to other European countries which tackle the super excess profits that were made in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...and how we can accelerate, there are changes happening. Last year was the greatest expansion in renewables we have seen in our history. Last Thursday, for the first time, we could start to see solar power having an influence. Last Thursday afternoon, 10% of our power demand was provided by solar power. We are only at the very start of the roll-out of the significant new solar capacity...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wind Energy Generation (27 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...developed much quicker and much faster. However, we also developed renewables onshore. Within in a European context, we are in the top three countries in integrating new variable renewable power. We are actually quite successful in this area of renewable development, but that success now moves to both solar and offshore energy in particular. The Deputy is right. We have a real...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (27 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...mainly to the construction of renewable generation sources and their successful integration onto the electricity grid. Ireland is ranked in the top five countries in the world for installed wind power capacity per capita and is a world leader in the integration of variable renewable electricity onto the grid. While the National Development Plan Review committed to increasing the share...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (27 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...a major reason for this being the construction of renewable generation sources and their successful integration onto the electricity grid. Ireland is in the top five globally for installed wind power capacity per capita and is a world leader in the integration of variable renewable electricity onto the grid. The recent Climate Action Plan Update, CAP 23, commits Ireland to achieving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Sectoral Emissions Ceiling: Discussion (26 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

...of charging points. People in rural communities are more likely than others to have the space to have a home charger. More and more people in the agricultural sector in rural Ireland are putting solar panels on the roofs of milking parlours, barns, sheds and so on, and generating power. That power can be used to charge their electric car, if they have one, on site. We are not...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Apr 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...sectors until 31 August 2023 and for the continuation of the application of the 0% rate of VAT to the supply of Covid-19 testing kits. Finally, this section provides for the 0% rate of VAT on the supply and installation of solar panels. At the request of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael McGrath, agreed to the 0% rating...

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...vehicle can be charged. The cost for the charging of that vehicle will be approximately €42. The person who owns the business and has gone to enormous expense to have the ESB upgrade his or her power supply so that he or she will be able to have this charger, which will have cost him or her €42,000, will get a minuscule amount from this, on which 50% or 60% tax will be paid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023)

...in the crisis situation we did indeed keep in mind the longer term and the need to decarbonise. This is why I also briefly referred to the other proposals the Commission made, including, for example, REPowerEU, which puts a strong emphasis on getting renewables in place rapidly. I refer to rapid investment in this regard and the provisions we proposed for permitting to speed up...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Action Plan (EPAP) sets out the range of measures that have been implemented across Government to ensure that those most at risk of energy poverty are supported and protected to adequately heat and power their homes. The implementation of the EPAP is being monitored by a cross-Departmental Steering Group, chaired by my Department. Budget 2023 saw the highest ever allocation to...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, and very much led by my Secretary General at the time, Dr. Orlaigh Quinn, we put bees on the roof to produce our own honey and have plans to put solar on the roof as well. I would like us to do the same in Government Buildings. It is a big roof space. I have been up there. There is an old helipad from the past that is no longer used...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: In the first area, namely, climate, next month we will have the first auction for offshore energy and set in place the mechanism for us to power the country securely into the future. It is working out for the tens of thousands of people who are starting to switch to the solar revolution because we changed the rules to make that viable and practical and to deliver it. In retrofitting, we are...

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...collectively and we share one atmosphere. While I would have preferred if additional climate actions were brought in to make up our numbers in the last decade before the Green Party was in power, that did not happen and, as a result, there was a deficit in 2020 of 4 megatonnes of CO2. This has been made up by buying surplus emissions from Slovakia and this deal was made on 14 February....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Steven Matthews: ...energy efficiencies in place, getting that heating, getting those walls insulated, taking the fabric first approach, keeping the heat in when it is generated, new doors and windows etc. Putting solar panels on roofs is the next step in that regard. I can think of no better example to set those young minds in those schools than when they see the advances we can make in technology and see...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...and well-being of all. We support Irish NGOs to work in partnership with local organisations to expand access to clean water globally. In Palestine, for instance, Ireland is supporting the construction of a solar power plant that provides clean and sustainable energy to increase the availability and quality of clean water in Gaza. Ireland has a partnership with the United Nations...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy Guidelines (21 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: In order to encourage the purchase of solar investments thereby reducing dependence on fossil energy by farmers, the solar scheme will be ring fenced with its own investment ceiling increased from €80,000 to €90,000 and the grant rate increased from 40% to 60% and the maximum installed capacity increased from 11kW to 62kW. There is no distinction between young farmers and other...

Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Mar 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...that means we need more dispatchable generation. That does not just involve emergency generators; it also involves batteries and interconnection with other countries, as well as more peaking gas power plants. We have clearly stated that we are commissioning 2 GW of gas by 2030 to be used in the exceptional circumstances of when we are out of renewable capacity. We have not done terribly...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...and one house there" approach - strikes me as being quite inefficient in terms of what might be possible. I refer to district-based energy as one area, or even the rooftop revolution in respect of solar power. In terms of scale, it cannot just be dotted around the place but done where you will get multiples. What is the SEAI doing in respect of this?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Generation (9 Mar 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...on-farm renewable technology uptake and usage, grant aid is provided through TAMS to assist farmers in maximising their contribution to the production of renewable energy through the installation of Solar PV technology along with battery storage on Irish farms. There is an overall budget of €370m for the TAMs scheme over its lifetime to end-2027. To this end, I launched the TAMS 3...