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Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...prices being charged in this country in comparison to our EU colleagues. We have the highest prices by far. We can blame the climate crisis or whatever but the Minister's actions in shutting down peat stations and the bogs-----

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (18 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: .... Do Ministers not talk to small business owners to understand the difficulties they had, even before the crisis with the oil? The Green Party and the Minister, Deputy Ryan, stopped Shannon LNG, stopped the peat plants and put concrete into the oil pipe at Barryroe, which was an act of national sabotage bordering on treason. We are cutting our noses off to spite our faces. We are...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...treason. We are depending on a pipeline bringing gas from England and God knows where else, the burning of turf has been stopped, the bogs have been closed, power stations in Lanesborough and elsewhere have been closed and peat is being brought in from Latvia and other places. One could not make it up. Nobody would believe it. Deputy Michael Collins and I went to meet the Society of...

Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...paying people to dismantle it, as we did with the sugar factories. We had four sugar factories and now we have none. We are importing sugar from all kinds of countries at the moment, as we are importing peat, wood chip and everything else. It is a sheer act of madness and it is totally unacceptable.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I did not get an answer, to be fair. He said he does not know about the wood chippings. The children on the street know about the wood chippings and the peat-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I call for a debate in the House on the madness that is going on with the importation of wood chippings from Brazil, peat from Latvia and anything else from any other part of the world that we feel like, rather than using our own peat and allowing farmers to cut down their own forestry to be used here. We need an urgent debate in this House. The...

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...finally wake up? My goodness. We were told by EirGrid two years ago that there were going to be power cuts. Then, the Minister went on with his folly of closing down Lanesborough and many other peat stations. That caused havoc in the midlands. The Minister talks about just transition. It was the most unjust transition I ever heard of in my life. We are now spending money as if it...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...destroy every motor, every dishwasher and everything else. The Government will just turn it off. It thinks it can do this and get away with it. That is what it was inadvertently planning for by closing peat-fired power stations and everything else but I will not go into that debate. I refer to the whole situation of water in Dublin. I have nothing against the people of Dublin....

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: .... They cannot have it both ways. If they vote for these issues and for their pet projects, they see where it ends up. We should open up Barryroe again. We should get Shannon LNG going again and reactivate our peat plants.  Imagine, the peat plant in Lanesborough was dismantled and is now functioning in Poland.  We are importing peat from Poland and other countries.  As I...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...is a citizens' assembly anseo. I have the privilege of being elected here for the time being and so has the Minister. This is a citizens' assembly. There is no talk about the cost of the citizens' assemblies. The waste of money is just phenomenal. The Government closed down all the peat plants and the coal burning stations. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae and I asked the Taoiseach if he...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...Russian situation, what alternatives are there if anything happens to that supply of Russian gas? How many days worth of oil are stored in this country? Will the Government reconsider the closure of the peat plants in the midlands, and reconsider the liquified natural gas, LNG, plant, for instance, that would provide an alternative to the gas line that is coming in? The Government needs...

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...power and clung onto it by supporting the Greens. It is dancing their merry tune since forming the Government. The cost increases out there are shocking. The cost of living is so high. I do not have time to repeat them all but I have them. We all know when we consider mom's purse of a Friday evening. All of us who have children in college or school know of the costs of school...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...asked to have Lanesborough and Shannonbridge reactivated. I am told that the plant in Lanesborough has been taken down, been exported to Germany and has been recommissioned there in. We are importing peat as well. The poor people out there are just devastated. The Government parties think that they can fleece them on the price of food. How are we going to get a tractor that is driven...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...plants spuds, beet, miscanthus or anything else can harvest them. God's law is that one reaps what one sows. What the hell kind of laws do we have here that we will not allow that? The price of oil has gone up. The Government closed all the peat plants. The price of insulation has gone through the roof because of the increase in the cost of oil. It is the same with everything else....

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...out of business and being expected to take compensation. It is an awful way to treat people - just give them money and get rid of this industry. We got rid of the bees. We are getting rid of our peat. There is no room for ordinary people. The plain people of Ireland cannot work, heat their houses or fish for themselves or for their livelihoods. It is to hell or to Connacht, like...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ..., especially when it is without notice. It is bad enough if a swan hits a power line, which can happen in my area, or there is an accident, a storm or an act of God, and we have to turn it off. The Government is closing down peat stations and not replenishing supplies. We are trying to rush by setting up this agency and bringing forward this legislation. We definitely need to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: We object to the Order of Business. We have had no proper discussion on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP. We are aware that peat producers and those who operate nurseries are outside the House today and are greatly concerned about issues coming down the track in that regard. On the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill, Deputies still do not received copies of the legislation...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...is not true. It is callous and wrong. That man has no chance now. We are supposed to be encouraging businesspeople and entrepreneurs. We must lead our people out of this and give them hope. We need to be honest and transparent with them instead of closing down the peat factories and banning turf cutting. The same was done with the gas and oil and we are now importing them. It makes...

Early Exit from Peat for Electricity Generation: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...speak on this important matter. There will be many people in the midlands and, indeed, beyond who will look on the Government's plans around a so-called just transition away from solid fuels like peat with a fair degree of concern if not downright alarm. I hope that whatever the plans for an early exit from peat for electricity generation that they will benefit the ordinary people on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Production (6 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 828. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of the ESB’s energy needs that come from peat; the way in which this will be replaced over the next year, five and ten years, respectively; the percentage of the ESB’s energy needs that comes from oil; the percentage that comes from other sources; the sources of same; the percentage of...