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Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: ...was made by the Government to the European Commission under state aid rules for the Government to be allowed to place a PSO levy on electricity customers to finance the co-firing of the midlands peat-burning power stations so they could also burn biomass. We all know that this was expected to go to 2027 but the arrangement will cease in 2020. There is a provision in the budget of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizen and Community Measures: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: ...happening. This committee was solely set up with the idea of achieving our climate action objectives and part of this relates to renewable electricity. We are trying to displace Bord na Móna and peat burning and this is a high-efficiency combined heat and power biomass plant that fits the bill of helping us meet our targets. We are asking private investors to fund these renewable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change (9 May 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: ...to tackle climate change, they are asking for more to be done by people living in rural areas. They are asking rural areas to take wind farms and grid infrastructure. They are asking for peat-burning power stations to be shut down. Where I am from, such a station closed a number of years ago. The area is only a shadow of its former itself economically. The issue of community gain is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Change (9 May 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: ...to tackle climate change, they are asking for more to be done by people living in rural areas. They are asking rural areas to take wind farms and grid infrastructure. They are asking for peat-burning power stations to be shut down. Where I am from, such a station closed a number of years ago. The area is only a shadow of its former itself economically. The issue of community gain is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Climate Change (9 May 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: ...to tackle climate change, they are asking for more to be done by people living in rural areas. They are asking rural areas to take wind farms and grid infrastructure. They are asking for peat-burning power stations to be shut down. Where I am from, such a station closed a number of years ago. The area is only a shadow of its former itself economically. The issue of community gain is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Climate Change (9 May 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: ...to tackle climate change, they are asking for more to be done by people living in rural areas. They are asking rural areas to take wind farms and grid infrastructure. They are asking for peat-burning power stations to be shut down. Where I am from, such a station closed a number of years ago. The area is only a shadow of its former itself economically. The issue of community gain is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Climate Change (9 May 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: ...to tackle climate change, they are asking for more to be done by people living in rural areas. They are asking rural areas to take wind farms and grid infrastructure. They are asking for peat-burning power stations to be shut down. Where I am from, such a station closed a number of years ago. The area is only a shadow of its former itself economically. The issue of community gain is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Plant Certification: Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (2 Apr 2019)

Michelle Mulherin: ...enough to get the certificate in 2012. It was not a knee-jerk reaction. The Commission for Energy Regulation, the previous iteration of the CRU, told them it would have to be biomass at a time when peat could not be burned because plants were to be co-fired with peat and biomass. Surely the CRU could have communicated with them to tell them the proposal was never going to go anywhere....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: ...we achieve a low-carbon or zero-carbon economy in addition to the company's objectives. Much of the presentation referred to issues that will arise in the midlands when the company stops burning peat, including the question of what the transition will involve, the impact on staff, plans for 500 new jobs and the creation of sustainable businesses. The latter is very welcome. I know well...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: ...Its details have not been decided yet, but it in no way acknowledges the fact that some people will be living right beside and looking at turbines. The area in question saw the closure of the Bord na Móna peat-burning power station at Bellacorick, which had a cooling tower of 290 ft in height. Most of us know what those towers look like. The wind farm's turbines will be more than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: There has been a series of votes in the Seanad and I apologise to the witnesses for having to leave the meeting to attend them. I apologise in advance if I repeat some of the questions. I wish to ask about the new nearly zero energy building standard that will apply from the end of the year. It is necessary to build large numbers of houses and we have plans to do so. This is the topic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Climate Change Advisory Council (12 Sep 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: ...am from County Mayo, which has great renewable resources, including wind, wave and so on. Eirgrid's plans do not include the development of transmission infrastructure beyond Bellacorick where the old peat-fired power station is located, yet there is a test site for wave energy off the coast of Belmullet. Would this not need to be a priority if we are going to consider wind energy?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Environmental Pillar (12 Sep 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: ...areas. More will be required of people in rural Ireland, in respect of how they live, land use and so on, than will be required of people in the cities. For example, there will be an issue if the peat-fired power stations are closed down. I know people acknowledge there is an issue but this involves an urban-rural divide. There will be an issue with the fallout from what people are...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2017)

Michelle Mulherin: ...energy infrastructure? People are right to ask whether there will be further drilling for and harvesting of gas and oil and I watched a programme not too long ago about the need to close down peat-burning power stations for obvious reasons, but there is no debate about the economic impact that these factors will have on communities. What are the alternatives? Another issue arises as we...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (7 Dec 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: ...having the same conversation over and over again. I have been at so many committees and I was previously on the environment committee. We seem to be rehashing the same conversation and simply repeating that we need to do something. I think pragmatic politics is required and I believe the Minister is a pragmatic politician. With regard to communities, it is all very well to say we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Michelle Mulherin: ...not be for export but will instead contribute to the 650 MW we are putting into the system under the Gate 3 programme to bring us up to our 2020 targets. Bord na Móna has a history in Mayo. Its peat-fired power station has been dismantled and a wind farm will come on stream once there is some upgrading of the transmission lines. People in the area are open to this type of project...

Alternative Energy Projects (21 Jun 2011)

Michelle Mulherin: ...blows. Therefore, we need to be able to plan and prioritise where we should, or should not, build this country's transmission grid. The wind is an indigenous natural resource like oil, gas and peat. The State needs to avoid relying on investors to ascertain the value of this commodity. This is one of the recurring themes that have blighted the progress of the Corrib gas field, for...