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- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)
Marian Harkin: ...with it. In today's context, however, it is seen to penalise. It is meant to encourage a switch to cleaner fuels, electric vehicles and public transport but in rural areas, very often there are no alternative fuels to oil, coal or peat. We do not have gas lines running beside our homes and there is little infrastructure for electric vehicles. Whatever there is in towns and cities,...
- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)
Danny Healy-Rae: ...talks about wind energy from turbines out at sea. We are ten years away from that. In the meantime, people must live and try to stay warm in their homes. We are importing briquettes and peat moss for the horticulture industry. We have no alternatives. However, the Taoiseach said the other day that two gas burning electricity generators are broken down at present and it is hoped to get...
- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)
Carol Nolan: ..., and jobs are at risk. It is not good enough. I call on the Government, yet again, to please take action. In tandem with that, there are 17,000 horticulture jobs at serious risk. Thousands of tons of peat are being imported from Latvia. What the Government has done is an insult to the Irish people. The Minister for Transport and the Government collectively must explain to us and...
- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)
Michael Healy-Rae: ...this is only tinkering again with the system. I welcome the gambling regulatory authority, which is an issue I have been raising a great deal. I raised the issue of horticulture when the peat industry had been shut down. What did this achieve only to show that the Government completely forgot about it because nobody in government realised what was going to happen when we needed...
- Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)
Verona Murphy: ...than the increase of €13.50 referred to today. I hope that provision will be made to alleviate fuel poverty if the weather is very poor this winter. I suppose the Government's crazy climate policies are having some positive effects. For example, peat producers in Latvia are absolutely delighted with the behaviour of the Government. You would have to laugh if it were not so...