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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is Mr. Griffin referring to the Department's Estimate for 2018?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: When is the Estimate expected to go to committee?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I presume it will be soon.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: It will be done before Christmas at any rate.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am sure we will return to this matter next year. On electricity infrastructure and the Celtic connector between Ireland and France, I am aware the Department is moving on to the next phase. Is this a five or ten-year project?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am not referring to the date of an actual connection.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: That is not especially big.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are familiar with the 400 kV line. I am surprised the Department's 70 page annual report features only one page on renewable energy. It seems very light in that regard given that wind and solar are such big issues. What is the position regarding the renewable energy feed-in tariff, REFIT, and its rate?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Will that add to the public service obligation, PSO, on electricity bills? Is that from where funding for the scheme will come?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: In other words, electricity bills will increase to pay for the scheme.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is it more expensive to produce energy through renewable as opposed to conventional methods?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: How much spending did it avoid?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Now that Mr. Griffin has informed me of the savings achieved, will he tell me how much it cost to achieve that saving?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: What was the cost?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I will finish on that point. Mr. Griffin's answer is akin to me answering a question from my better half, on my return from a shopping trip, how much I had spent by saying I did not know how much I had spent but I knew how much I had saved. Mr. Griffin has given me a similar answer. Does he get my point?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: The public service is great at giving us half of the picture. Mr. Griffin did not give me a proper answer.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I just wanted Mr. Griffin to say that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Griffin is essentially saying the further we move towards renewable energy, the greater will be the increase in the cost of electricity for consumers.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have moved into a broad conversation. I asked about the REFIT scheme and Mr. Griffin indicated an auction process is likely to be held in 2018.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: At this stage, there are only a few of us left. We have asked all the questions we had to ask. I take it that the information on the various matters that is to be sent to us will come within two weeks.