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- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: I thank Deputies Ó Cathasaigh and O'Rourke for their contributions. It is important to reflect on Deputy O'Rourke's comments. The retrofit plan is ambitious. We have a serious ambition here. It is also realistic. I absolutely agree with Deputy Ó Cathasaigh. We are not signing up to 220 years but we have been building capacity. In my opening remarks, I referred to the extra...
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Debate adjourned.
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Minister of State and I thank all three Deputies for contributing. As someone who, at the Business Committee, has to manage competing demands for additional time to talk on important matters, I have to say it is profoundly disappointing to come in here tonight to have a topic of enormous importance before us and, apart from Deputy Ó Cathasaigh as Leas-Chathaoirleach and the...
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 6.09 p.m. go dtí 2 p.m., Dé Máirt, an 15 Deireadh Fómhair 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 6.09 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 15 October 2024.
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are back to the Minister of State and Deputy Ó Cathasaigh. Do they want a second go at it or do they want to share their time? There are ten minutes available to each of them.
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Ó Cathasaigh is the proposer so he is first up.
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State and Deputy O'Rourke for their contributions on the report. I will not go back into the detail but I will attempt to address some of the comments that were made. We have to distinguish between what we are trying to do in the short term, the medium term and the long term. In the long term, the goal is to retrofit all of our housing stock so that people will...
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will have a go and-----
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: I too extend my deepest sympathies to Deputy Naughten on the loss of his brother. I do not sit on this committee but Deputy Naughten chairs the Friends of Science Group in the Oireachtas. My deepest sympathies to him and his family at this difficult time. I commend the committee on its work on this. I apologise on behalf of Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire who was due to take this but...
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: Gabhaim buíochas don choiste as ucht an obair thábhachtach seo agus an deis é a phlé. I join Deputy Ó Cathasaigh and, I am sure, the House in expressing my deepest sympathy to the Cathaoirleach of the committee, Deputy Denis Naughten, on the untimely passing of his brother John. Our thoughts and our prayers are with Naughten family in these very dark days. I...
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands entitled "Report on Energy Poverty 2024", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 24th June, 2024. I am taking this as Leas-Chathaoirleach of the committee. The Cathaoirleach, tragically, is burying his...