155. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the position regarding any incentives or obligations under review within his Department that would support data centres in the use of renewable energy systems to minimise their reliance on the grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20973/26]
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156. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the position regarding the annual usage of gas energy by data centres; if this is something that is recorded by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20974/26]
157. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the position regarding the annual usage of water by data centres; if this is something that is recorded by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20975/26]
158. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the total percentage of electricity that is used by data centres at a national level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20976/26]
167. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of islanded data centres contracted to connect to the gas network; the number connected to the gas network of those contracted; the number awaiting connection to the gas network of those contracted; the number of formal enquiries that have been received but which are not contracted, for each category; the amount of capacity…
87. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the date on which data centres operating in the State will first be required to report on their carbon emissions pursuant to Article 12 of Directive (EU) 2023/1791 (the Energy Efficiency Directive) establishing the European database on data centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19155/26]
88. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether the reporting deadline of 15 May under the Energy Efficiency Directive applies notwithstanding the current status of transposition of the Directive into Irish law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19156/26]
89. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 18 December 2025, to set out whether the Q1 2026 deadline for the first reporting cycle of the energy efficiency directive is still expected to be met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19157/26]
90. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 18 December 2025, to set out whether, in the event that the directive is not fully transposed into domestic legislation by the relevant reporting deadline; if he expects that the reporting obligations for Irish data centre operators will be deferred by a further year; and if he will make…
262. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the number of data centres there are in operational and in planning stage, by county, and by size and if their usage is monitored; and if so, the usage. [15038/26]
35. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the safeguards in place to ensure that a data centre (details supplied) will not hinder electricity and water demand for existing and future residents in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5015/26]
36. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the actions being taken by his Department to reduce the demand data centres are making on our national grid; the safeguards that will be in place for data centres built in the future re same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5016/26]
238. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the guarantees in place to ensure a data centre complex (details supplied) will not impact electricity and water demand for existing residents and new housing in County Kildare; the actions being taken to immediately reduce the demand data centres are making on our national electricity grid and renewable energy targets; and …
247. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the position regarding any incentives or obligations under review within his Department that would support data centres in the use of renewable energy systems to minimise their reliance on the grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3851/26]
11. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the way in which he will ensure that the proposed data centre (details supplied) will not negatively impact on domestic water and energy access and supply. [2809/26]
103. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the action he will take to reduce energy demand and carbon emissions from data centres in view of our legal obligations to reduce both energy usage and carbon emissions; his views on whether the new CRU policy is compatible with those obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73592/25]
134. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he supports enabling data centres to build their own fossil fuel power plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72887/25]
287. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his attention has been drawn to the significant amount of grid connection capacity held by data centres which has not been used. [73595/25]
288. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he was made aware of the volume of grid connection capacity sought by data centres that have planning permission but no grid connection. [73596/25]
39. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the exchequer funding to Eirgrid or ESB that has been used to facilitate new data centre connections in each of the years 2015 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [72931/25]
40. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he has engaged with Eirgrid and ESB regarding the amount of funding they have allocated to facilitating new data centre connections through exchequer funding; if this data is recorded; to provide a detailed breakdown of funding provided for this purpose in each of the years since 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [72932/25]
41. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he has engaged with Eirgrid and ESB regarding the amount of funding they have allocated to facilitating new data centre connections through network charges; if this data is recorded and if so, to provide a detailed breakdown of funding provided for this purpose in each of the years since 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [72933/25]
42. 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. [72986/25]
43. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide a breakdown of funding provided to Eirgrid for energy grid maintenance and upgrade in each of the years 2010 to date, in tabular form. [72987/25]
194. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether he has received reports from electricity network operators of outages from fluctuations in frequencies in the grid related to data centres causing issues; and the measures adopted to mitigate their effects. [71756/25]