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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will get Mr. Burke to deal with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: It was arrived at in consultation with Gas Networks Ireland and it is based on international standard. I will let Mr. Sheridan deal with it on behalf on the Department and we might go back then to Gas Networks Ireland. It is a technical point and an important one. Will Mr. Sheridan give a quick overview in terms of the Department? Then we will go to Mr. Burke as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: Just to add to that, the Department obviously had the discussions. Gas Networks Ireland came back with the 1.5 m limit. The Department and the officials reviewed it and effectively looked for the 5 m limit. Therefore, it is a request of the Department to Gas Networks Ireland. It is just under three times above what Gas Networks Ireland was providing. It was very much a view of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: They are required to apply to the local authority for a road opening. There is a process there. It is not entirely exempted from a process; it is just exempted from the particular formal planning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: We are basing this on international standards. Obviously, the Department has been in consultation with Gas Networks Ireland. I will ask Mr. Burke to elaborate a bit more on that in view of the fact that the Deputy is drawing attention to a particular point. Can Mr. Burke provide reassurance in the context of distances?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: There are no emissions. It was based on the fact that there are emissions from the gas vent, but there are also no emissions from the regulator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Mr. Burke not talking about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: At the moment, Gas Networks Ireland is talking about replacing existing gas vent stacks, not about providing new regulating stations. Could Mr. Burke indicate if that is correct? Is that the intention now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: When Gas Networks Ireland goes to a local authority, does it require a minimum distance from residential dwellings? The existing regulating stations are already in place and the existing stacks are also in situ but is Gas Networks Ireland required to apply to local authorities for the provision of new facilities? Is anything set down in the requirements on distance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the regulating station cause any emissions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is the interaction of Gas Networks Ireland with local residents if it proposes a new regulating station?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is a fair comment. We will take the matter under advisement. I am substituting for the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, today because he had to attend another event. We take the point. The officials will go back and look at it and come back to the committee again. It is not being done on the basis that it is not required internationally or that, technically, there are no emissions...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister and I will look at the matter in tandem with the officials. We will take it under advisement. We will come back to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: We welcome the engagement. The committee has raised a very important point. We will go back and discuss it and revert to the committee on the outstanding issue. We very much take it on board. That is why we welcome these engagements.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does that relate to radar?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: If the Chair could hold on a moment. I want to be careful. We would like the radar regulation to be referred by the committee now to the Houses of the Oireachtas but on the second regulation we have agreed to take under advisement the points raised by Deputy Cian O'Callaghan into consideration and to revert back to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will come back with a revised proposal to the committee on the gas regulation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: We want to decouple the two today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (11 May 2023)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is correct.