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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is currently departing the Chamber-----

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

Martin Heydon: I am here.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and I am sorry that I did not get a chance to challenge his countermotion directly with him. I must first thank Sinn Féin for tabling this important motion on energy costs. We are happy to support the measures in it, such as beefing up the CRU to try to address the high cost of energy in this country. However, we would go further, and we think we need caps. We tabled a Bill at...

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

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate on affordable electricity. Since the beginning of the cost-of-living crisis, spiralling energy costs have had a devastating impact on many families and workers. Many have been forced to make the stark choice between the various essentials in any family budget and trying to decide which of those essentials they will drop in order to be...

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...