Questions

106. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 29 July 2025, if any parameters were put in place regarding the type of projects the €3.5 billion will be targeted towards; if this investment can be used to power data centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44745/25]

107. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 29 July 2025, to report on meeting with energy suppliers; the breakdown of the energy suppliers he has met with since taking office; the dates these meetings took place; whether energy price increases and decreases were discussed; if he discussed network charge passthrough to energy bills; if th…

120. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the breakdown of all Exchequer funding provided to the Tallaght district heating scheme; and the proportion this was of the total cost of the project in each of the years since its inception to date, in tabular form. [45171/25]

121. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the breakdown of all Exchequer funding provided to the Poolbeg Waste to Energy Project; and the proportion this was of the total cost of the project in each of the years since its inception to date, in tabular form. [45172/25]

122. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the breakdown of all Exchequer funding provided to the district heating at the glass bottle site; and the proportion this was of the total cost of the project in each of the years since its inception to date, in tabular form. [45173/25]

138. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the measures he is taking to address the impact of data centres on energy bills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46022/25]

139. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the measures he is taking to address the warnings the Government received regarding the upward pressure data centre expansion is having on household energy bills (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46023/25]

140. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on his engagements with the CRU since taking office; the date and details of any meetings that took place; the issues discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46024/25]

141. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he has met with the Minister for housing to discuss what impact the constrained grid is having on housing supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46025/25]

142. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he has considered legislating so that the CRU has the mandate to authorise the prioritising of certain grid connections on the basis of their social good, as they do in other countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46026/25]

165. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment his reasoning for not including floor insultation in the better energy warmer homes scheme (details supplied); if he has any plans to include it going forward; the supports if any available to those who wish to install underfloor insultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46360/25]

153. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of funding provided to ESB for energy grid maintenance and upgrade in each of the years 2010 to date, in tabular form. [42840/25]

154. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to the NDP review and the announcement of €3.5 billion of an equity investment in ESB and EirGrid, the level of equity this investment will equate to in both ESB and EirGrid, respectively; to provide a breakdown of the equity the Government of Ireland has in both EirGrid and ESB as the TSO and DSO, respectively, and the way this ow…

156. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment regarding the €3.5 billion allocation for EirGrid and ESB in the NDP review, whether any parameters were put in place regarding the type of projects the funding should be targeted toward. [43105/25]

185. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 10 and 11 of 16 July 2025, to report on the 80 homes across two area based projects that have been contacted under the scheme; to outline where these projects are located and the reasons they were chosen; to outline the criteria for selection; to provide a project timeline for completion; to provide a…

186. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 16 July 2025, when the public consultation on the draft heat policy statement will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41750/25]

187. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a detailed breakdown of installation of solar PV as part of the warmer homes scheme; the number of homes installed with solar PV as part of the warmer homes scheme broken down by average cost, their pre and post-BER and the average KwH installed in each of the years 2020 to 2025, by county, in tabular form. [41751/25]

188. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on the participation of his officials in the Expert Group on Renewable and Low Carbon Fuels set up by the EU Commissions; the number of meetings that have taken place; how the discussions have informed policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41752/25]

199. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will report on the electricity grid; the relevant legislation that dictates the process for connections; if there is one stream only; if not, if there are separate streams in the queue for connection; his views on allocating connections on a first come first served basis; his views on whether any particular connections should be prio…

200. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he will report on the electricity grid; the relevant legislation that dictates the process for connections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42011/25]

201. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to outline the process through which a costing of €900 million was reached for the proposed liquid natural gas reserve; to provide a breakdown of the projected annual cost broken down by CapEx and OpEx, in tabular form. [42020/25]

202. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the projected total first- and full-year OpEx of the proposed liquid natural gas terminal, in tabular form. [42021/25]

203. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the projected total first- and full-year CapEx of the proposed liquid natural gas terminal, in tabular form. [42022/25]

204. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to report on any meetings he had with energy suppliers since he took office; the dates on which those meetings took places; the discussions that took places; if he anticipates energy prices will decline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42032/25]

221. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 13 February 2025 (details supplied) and following the NDP review, if the allocations remain the same for retrofitting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42761/25]