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Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: This involves the transfer of funds from subhead A3 to subhead C4. Is it an administrative transfer or are the moneys going into the administration of the sustainable energy programme?

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Will it be applied generally across the sustainable energy programme?

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Will subhead C4 include home improvements schemes, such as the warmer homes scheme? Is there a breakdown of all the schemes available?

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Is it specifically for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Policy: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (3 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I welcome the Minister and his staff. I am a little disappointed because I would have imagined that the management summary of the report would at this stage be of printer’s copy standard, with photographs selected. I believed we would be receiving a copy of the management summary and I am a little disappointed we do not have it. Be that as it may, I wish to talk in the first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Policy: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (3 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I have only started.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Policy: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (3 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Okay, I will rattle through them very quickly. The Minister mentioned Whitegate oil refinery. Will the White Paper include the consideration criteria that will be used? Will the White Paper contain a recommendation on set back distances for wind turbines? I would have liked to say a great deal more on that. The Minister has answered the question of whether the White Paper will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Policy: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (3 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: There is a dispute about that at present.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Policy: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (3 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: What about feed-in tariffs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Policy: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (3 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I do not question the urgency of it, just the technology of it. Could the committee be given a copy of the management summary when it is completed?

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: When the Government came to power in 2011 we were promised a democratic revolution, but here we are, almost five years on, and there has been little or no change in how the Government does business. Nowhere is this more obvious than how we have handled the Tribunals of Inquiry Bill 2005. The Bill was introduced in 2005, had Second Stage in 2007, Committee Stage in 2009 and has yet to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (15 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if and how he will encourage semi-State companies such as Bord na Móna, Coillte and the Electricity Supply Board to promote renewable energy generation as part of the White Paper on energy policy. [44985/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (15 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: As I will not be going forward for re-election, it is safe to say I will not be asking questions of the Minister again in the Chamber. I take this opportunity to thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, the Ceann Comhairle, the Minister, the Minister of State and the former Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, as well as Department staff for their co-operation.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (15 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: We have had differences of opinion but at all times I have tried to ensure that I was speaking to the issue and not to the person. There are a number of issues about which I feel passionately and sometimes that passion might have spilled over into impatience. One of the first things I said when I put questions to the then Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (15 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: There is no doubt this nation faces a huge challenge following the agreement in Paris to pursue efforts to limit the increase in temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. It is about more than the semi-State companies using renewable energy. In addition, I thought that there would be a co-ordinating and leadership role and that they would share their expertise in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (15 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I thank the Minister for his reply. It is good to hear his response. I look forward to the White Paper. If the Minister can see his way to giving me a sneak preview of it tonight, I might be able to make a better contribution tomorrow at the official opening. My final question concerns the role of educational establishments and universities. Has the Minister thought about talking to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Environmental Protection Agency's study of hydraulic fracturing could be compromised in the public's opinion owing to the close relationship of some of the participants with hydraulid fracturing interests. [44986/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: My question concerns the Environmental Protection Agency's study of hydraulic fracturing. Every time its representatives appears before the Joint Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further serious concerns are raised about the independence of the study which the public very much regards as compromised. Will the Minister of State stop the practice of fracking?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: One of the reasons I came to the Dáil was to have fracking banned anywhere in Ireland. The area most at risk from this pernicious technology is where my children and I live. It is where my grandchildren and great grandchildren will also live. Because I am not seeking re-election, I have the luxury of taking on this issue without political considerations. People are doing tremendous...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Dec 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Yes.