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- 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...
- Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: ...left in the cold. Energy companies are choosing not to pass on the 40% reduction in wholesale electricity prices. What justification is there for allowing these companies to charge skyrocketing prices for wind- and solar-generated power? That is the question the Green Party needs to answer. The wind and sun do not cost any more now than they did two years ago. Fianna Fáil, the...
- Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)
Matt Shanahan: ...are two significant deficits we have in the economy. I pay great credit to my colleague, Deputy Naughten, who in recent years has been promoting the idea of converting some of the redundant power stations, namely, Lanesborough and Shannonbridge, to biomass for the purpose of generating up to 250 MW of electricity annually. This would be done by incentivising farmers to grow 10,000...
- 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...