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Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Seán Canney: .... Some people get passionate about things we believe in. I believe that we put much effort into tabling a Private Members’ motion that sets out things that can be done in the short, medium and long term. We all have ambition but it has to be turned into reality. We can and need to do that as a matter of urgency. The fact that the Government is accepting our motion and is...

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: In the medium and long term, the way we protect ourselves is by developing our own resources----

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: ...until the spring of next year or universal credits that will end after the same period. However, I have not heard anybody address how we are going to meet the energy demands of this State in the medium to long term. I greatly look forward, as I am sure the Minister does, to the offshore wind energy of the Atlantic being harnessed but that technology is not there yet. Nobody is...

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How long will it take, for Jesus's sake?

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...it can afford to do so as it is the taxpayers who are paying. For me, the frustration around this issue stems from the fact that the Government has been aware of many of these problems for a long time, but it has failed to act on them. The issue that really jumps out at me is the microgeneration of electricity. The North of Ireland started a process 15 years ago of allowing people to...

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: ...two types of problems. One is the short-term cost of energy, which is going to decimate businesses and put many households under serious pressure to pay their bills. The other problem is energy security in the long term. Reliable supply and as much homemade generation as possible should help to keep prices stable, but where is it? We had 14 years to prepare. The short-term problems...

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...out this review, it is vital that we support the projects that have been rewarded contracts under the existing mechanism and that planned capacity auctions continue to deliver. In respect of the longer-term outlook for energy security, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications is carrying out a review of the energy security of Ireland's gas and electricity systems for...

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Michael Lowry: ...demand electricity consumers to use their emergency backup generators when there is a shortage of supply; — temporarily re-power Derrybrien wind farm and ringfence all profits for a local community and environmental benefit fund; — set a national cap on the unit price of electricity, with the State raising a long-term loan to pay for verifiable surplus costs to power...