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The Green Party is pushing for a portion of the €2.5 billion inflation compensation fund to be allocated for subsidizing low-cost solar panels, aiming to reduce household energy bills and accelerate the transition to renewable energy. They are also calling for targeted energy credits and a levy on data center electricity consumption to address climate change.
Senator Malcolm Noonan, Green Party leader Roderic O'Gorman and Cllr Hazel Chu, deputy leader of the Green Party speaking to media at the party's think-in.
Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish TimesHe said that allotting some of the €2.5 billion to increase the roll-out of low-cost solar panels would help families reduce energy bills and would also help the transition to“This would make a really important step for families now, but into the future as well. Once you’ve solar panels installed you are getting free or low-cost electricity for the years and the decades to come.
Drumcree, 2026: ‘It’s mad they want to go down the road and start all this again’He also said that part of the fund should be used for short-term measures such as targeted energy credits across 2027.
At a media conference, O’Gorman said the key themes for the party as the Dáil returned were to use Budget 2027 to protect families from the immediate impact on inflation and up-and-down spikes in fossil fuel, work towards social justice and put pressure on the Government for its failure to take action on climate change.told the conference that the party would be advocating for a levy of 1 cent per kilowatt of electricity used by“Data centres consume 23 per cent of metered electricity and that is set to rise to 30 per cent by 2030,” she said.
“We’ve seen Trump drag women’s rights backwards in the US. We have fought in Ireland for repeal, we fought for expansion of abortion rights,” she said.
“We’ve turned out on the streets day in, day out to protest a genocide in Palestine ... while we have seen the Trump regime champion Netanyahu’s genocide. ”“We’ve had a huge loss of agricultural production, not just in Europe but also here in Ireland, where we’ve had extreme levels of drought and which has had a knock-on effect on water quality.
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