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Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Carol Nolan: ...but we are saying that some of the solutions and actions being taken are ludicrous. A power station in Shannonbridge in my constituency closed down. Another closed in Lanesborough, County Longford. Those closures happened at a time when we needed those power stations. We are seeing inferior quality peat coming in from thousands of miles away, as far away as Latvia, and that is...

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Butler: ...result in greater choice for consumers and businesses in terms of suppliers, products and prices and support competition to drive down prices. Within this overall competitive framework, the best long-term policy is to support households with their energy costs through energy efficiency measures, with the Government providing a total retrofit budget in excess of €280 million this...

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...or where a bus rolls in at 7 a..m. and perhaps again at 8 p.m. Yesterday in County Meath, the information came through that the rail line between Navan and Dublin which has been promised for years, as long ago as when Mr. Noel Dempsey was the Minister, is being put on the long finger again. This morning the majority of Meath workers left the county to go to work. It happens nowhere else...

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...Authority of Ireland, SEAI, grant applications. I have constituents in Donegal who have been waiting over two years to be awarded their SEAI grant. There is no point blaming Covid-19 for this because there were long waiting times prior to 2020. A pollution tax would give us the means to properly fund policies to support sustainable energy and transport rather than having unfair carbon...

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...the working family payment, but the Government missed the opportunity to assist those working families who will find it difficult this winter. The measures the Minister of State outlined in his statement are all long-term ones. We want to see retrofitting and we want to see people being able to feed back into the grid through the microgeneration schemes, but none of that will happen...

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Ossian Smyth: ...x2014; that Ireland faces particular challenges in this regard as we are a price taker on international markets and that Irish electricity and gas prices have historically been higher than other European Union (EU) countries due to long standing drivers such as geographical isolation, dispersed population, fossil fuel dependency and small market scale; — that the Commission for...

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...On 24 November, a convoy of trucks will travel to Dublin and block the whole place. The only way the Government will listen to people outside Dublin and other urban areas is if we turn off the lights for a week. Let us see how long people will last then. That is what happens to us. The Rural Independent Group is fighting for equality. We are not fighting against climate action but...

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: ...a voucher (to be paid before Christmas) of at least €250 for every low-income household in the State; — implement measures to ensure suppliers must commit to keeping the lights on for vulnerable and financially insecure customers and make sure that there are flexible options available for people to address energy debts; — fully recognise that for people in energy...