Renewable Energy Generation
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-08
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James O'Connor (FF), Cork East

In the 30 seconds available to me, I will communicate my point as efficiently as I can as somebody from a farming background. At the moment, there is absolutely nothing for commercial farmers in Ireland when it comes to getting sufficient levels of financial support to install renewable energy infrastructure on their farms. A clear indication of this is that, as of last year, only 2% of dairy farmers had taken up photovoltaic, PV, solar schemes. Will the Department look into this and draw up a plan to allow Irish farmers in the dairy industry and in other areas in which there is heavy energy usage to join efforts to reduce our usage of fossil fuels by increasing renewable energy use on Irish farms?

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Sitting date: 2022-11-08