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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...as clerk to many committees, including the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement; the British-Irish Interparliamentary Assembly; the foreign affairs committee; the transport, tourism and sport committee; and, most recently, this committee. Paul was always fond of a bit of devilment, including updating me on the woes of Roscommon football, but he had a kind and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

...committee members for the invitation to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, to attend this meeting to discuss the important subject of energy poverty and the retrofitting of homes in rural and urban areas. This is our first time before this committee and we welcome the opportunity. I am joined by my colleagues Mr. O'Mahony, who is attending remotely, and in person by Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...in the noughties, there was a top-up for those on the islands because it costs 30% more to do anything on an island. I will explain why. If you are getting anything onto an island, you pay the transport we all pay to get it to the port, rather than to your home. It then has to be loaded onto the boat and you have to pay a transport fee to get it quayside. That cost is not normally the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...spark out there who will come forward with some other measure in relation to this aspect. I know there are challenges with using hydrotreated vegetable oil, HVO, for home heating compared to transport, but surely there must be options and solutions out there not involving heat pumps, which cost a lot of money and take time to install, rather than locking people into using oil-fired...