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argued for greater transparency in respect of public-private partnerships and a move back towards public ownership of critical transport infrastructure. Where profits are excessive and clauses allow tolls to rise automatically every January, every legal and financial tool must be used to renegotiate the contracts involved … which are far above the European norm of 5% to 6%. The gap between the two represents hundreds of millions of euro in excess profit extracted from motorists who were promised lower premiums in return for legal reforms. It is long past time that the Government stood

licence period with no enforcement actions undertaken by the EPA other than an €11,000 fine. For a company that generates a profit in excess of €200 million, €11,000 is a drop in the ocean. It will make no difference. Can the Minister of State please look

last EU nitrates committee meeting member states voted to approve the use of processed manure above excess nitrogen limits. We should be showing leadership. We can be sustainable, profitable and show leadership

there also needed to be a ban on rent increases. Without a ban on rent increases, all you are doing is putting more profit in landlords' pockets because that is where it ends up. The statistics show that to be the case. We do not even have … compare the first quarter of this year with the last quarter of 2023, we will see that rents increased by a sum in excess of the renter's tax credit. If the Government had banned rent increases at the end of 2023, without even introducing a tax credit

onshore wind. That is actually questionable. A lot of this is being done to export. Deputy Heneghan mentioned how a lot of the excess generation is being wasted when all the turbines are going and the grid cannot take it. That is the nature of the wind … them. They got in at a time when wind turbines were not as efficient as they are now. They are even more profitable now that the Chinese manufacturers have really upped the game, as they have done with solar panels. We have not even started with the whole

move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am proud to introduce this Bill on behalf of People Before Profit. The purpose of the Bill is to make it mandatory for private rented accommodation to achieve a minimum B2 building energy rating, BER, standard … misery caused by living in poorly insulated homes with no minimum BER standards. Ireland has one of the highest rates of excess winter deaths in the European Union because people cannot afford to properly heat their homes. We know that children living in cold homes are more than