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Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister for his response in which he stated that, "Ireland is a world leader in the integration of variable renewable electricity onto the grid." Yet Ireland has the most expensive energy costs. A number of the speakers referenced energy poverty. We still have food banks today. I told a story a while back in this House. It was a true story that broke my heart about a...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Dessie Ellis: In my constituency of Dublin North-West, there are a significant number of areas that have a high percentage of elderly people. There are also areas of the constituency with a much younger population and who have young families. There are also some areas of economic disadvantage. Unfortunately, unemployment rates are also high in areas of Dublin North-West and it is a constant struggle...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. We in the Labour Party support it wholeheartedly. After a sustained period of record rises, electricity prices are starting to fall but remain at around double what we might term "normal levels". Citizens are really suffering. They are struggling. I have lost count of the number of occasions during the last two years where people have...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Johnny Mythen: I thank my colleagues, especially Deputy O'Rourke, for bringing this motion to the floor. Affordable electricity is the main theme of this motion. Ireland has one of the highest prices of electricity per unit in Europe. Sinn Féin and other Opposition parties have raised this issue countless times on the floor of the Dáil and presented countless ideas and solutions, including a...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: What else can be said? We have the most expensive electricity prices across the European Union. They are two thirds higher than the average, with the typical Irish household paying nearly €700 more per year. That is really what it is all about. There is a certain acceptance of our being an island and at the end of a line, but there are some very specific solutions that my...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Mairead Farrell: We know that people are struggling with the cost of energy. It is really important that my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, has brought this motion forward now, in the summer months, because this is something we need to deal with now. People will really struggle, particularly in winter, as a result of inaction by this Government. Just today, I was contacted by a man in Clifden. As the...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: For too many families, everyday necessities such as putting fuel in the car, putting food on the table or paying bills for monthly expenses such as gas and electricity are becoming more and more unaffordable. Costs are growing all the time. People need relief. They need to see a government that is committed to addressing these cost-of-living challenges and they do not have that in this...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "acknowledges the Government's comprehensive response to the significant increases in energy prices for households and businesses due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the significant progress being made in ensuring a just transition to renewable energy; recognises that:...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, for bringing forward the motion. It is an important motion that strikes at the heart of the cost-of-living crisis faced by ordinary people. The cost-of-living crisis could more accurately be described as a rip-off crisis. People in Ireland pay two thirds higher than the EU average for electricity, with a typical Irish household paying nearly...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: In terms of the cost of living, Ireland is the most expensive country in the EU. Electricity costs are at the core of this huge increase. Ireland's costs are 46% above the EU average. Our gas and electricity are the most expensive in the EU at more than double the average. At the same time, energy companies are making massive profits. This affects many ordinary workers and families on a...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is a TD like the rest of us. I like to believe that he is speaking to his constituents like the rest of us. They are facing this impossible burden, especially people who struggle to pay their rents, mortgages and bills every week. The increased cost of electricity and gas is an impossible burden. Our small businesses face exactly the same burden. This did not happen out...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: The culture of corporate rip-off is alive and well. The Government has allowed itself to become a doormat for companies making eye-watering profits of billions of euro at a time when people are struggling to make ends meet. Inflation has a crippling impact on families on the breadline but the Minister and the Government are not interested in picking a fight with the corporates who are...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Amendment put.

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time tomorrow evening.

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that Ireland has some of the most expensive electricity prices in the European Union (EU), two-thirds higher than the average, with the typical Irish household paying nearly €700 more per year; regrets that: — the Government refused to apply a stronger, more effective windfall tax which tackled profits when they were at their...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I thank all of those who spoke. Including this week, last week and in the Seanad, there have been more than 12.5 hours of debate and questions on the migration pact, as well as numerous debates in this House prior to that and questions at the Oireachtas committee. I have listened to and been part of all those debates and responded to questions any time I have been asked. When we are...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I join in the tributes expressed across the House on the passing of two Irish legends of broadcasting. The wonderful Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh was the sound of the GAA, the sound of Sunday and for generations of fans he was an exceptionally descriptive broadcaster and was also generous with his time, particularly in promoting the Irish language, his native tongue. I offer my...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: There must be an election looming again as Sinn Féin has done another U-turn. It now states it no longer wants open borders. It now wants to look at things differently. I am working with many nationalities in this country and always have done so. It is harder now to get into the country with paperwork than it is without paperwork in certain cases. I refer to people who come with...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Pearse Doherty: What we are debating today is whether Ireland should opt in fully and wholesale to the EU migration pact. Sinn Féin's position is crystal clear and it is that we should not. It is not in Ireland's interest. Ireland and Europe have seen a significant increase in migration rates for a number of years. In 2019 the number of people applying for international protection in the State was...