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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: How is the company dealing with people who are objecting or who have serious problems with the proposals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: So essentially the company has a project, it informs people that the project is going to go ahead and then, subject to the project getting planning permission and abiding by the guidelines, it is ameliorated by a community gain. That is the message that is coming from the company.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Why did the company pick the midlands? When I was on Kildare County Council a few years ago, we had a look at wind energy and whether it should be included as a heading on its own in our development plan. In fact, it was not included because it was not seen as an area that would be the most likely for wind power, mainly because the land mass is very flat. Now there are very high turbines...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I am unsure whether it was the representatives from Element Power or Bord na Móna who said they had landscape architects on board. They are rather hard to hide. Why would they have a landscape architect?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The representatives from Bord na Móna indicated they were surprised that the public consultation - the reverse PPP, as it were - with community involvement did not come through. Did the company put that out as a menu option, or was it relying on people to come up with ideas themselves in terms of community gain?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The company cannot factor that in until-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: A project involving 650 or 700 turbines is a sizeable project which would have a major impact. Reference was made to rural communities and planning permission being turned down. I would not be the greatest advocate of one-off housing, with some exceptions, but some people are struggling in this regard. This applies to people who have a reason to live in a community, who are from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Is there anywhere comparable we could go? If I were to go somewhere tomorrow to look, where could I see something comparable to what is being proposed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: When I asked about looking at something comparable, I meant something comparable rather than one of the projects associated with the deputations. I was thinking about somewhere in Europe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: There are some issues relating to the bogs themselves. Bord na Móna held a briefing in Buswell's Hotel not long ago during which I asked Mr. D'Arcy about the hydrological assessment of the bogs. In parts of the UK they have done some work on wetlands, trying to make them accumulate floodwaters so that they do not end up very quickly in rivers and then flood towns. Bogs or wetlands...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I believe the report by the National Economic and Social Council, NESC, highlighted the opportunities for wind export. We are very well positioned on the periphery of Europe for what the report suggested would be the real opportunity for big industrial development with export potential, which would be offshore. In the past couple of weeks a report has come from the European Commission on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I am not a climate change sceptic. With regard to 20% of the €6 billion worth of fossil fuel imported, which is beyond dispute, we are in a very precarious position in being at the end of a pipeline. We may well have reasonably good power stations, but if there is nothing to power them, would the witnesses accept that we are in a precarious position? Could that 20% be increased?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: What does Mr. Swords hope for in the guidelines?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (19 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amounts given to an organisation (details supplied) in support of the delivery of its civil society and voluntary remit in each year since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8525/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Establishment (19 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 144. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will indicate the terms of all leases for premises entered into by Irish Water in respect of its office accommodation including the rental amounts, term, break-clauses and all other relevant information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8527/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Juvenile Offenders (19 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 184. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average cost per annum to the State for a juvenile offender under 18 years serving a custodial sentence or other form of court mandated detention in 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8526/14]

Roads Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Only in Ireland could we have a Bill entitled the Roads Bill where the subject matter is almost exclusively railways. It says something about how we collectively think about transportation - it is all about moving vehicles rather than moving people and goods. That is not just a recent pattern; it has been the traditional pattern, but it needs to change. It has certainly been evident from...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (20 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 13. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in respect of the sale of the former Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loan books, he will indicate if the Special Liquidator has considered sale of individual mortgages to their corresponding borrowers so that they may refinance their loans themselves; the details of any recent agreed sales of loan books; at what price and which institutions the sale...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (20 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 10 December 2013, if he will provide a list in tabular form of all sales by the Revenue sheriff of seized equipment in each of the past 20 years including particulars of the items sold and the price obtained; if he will indicate for each such sale the legislative provisions which permitted the sale; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment Issues (20 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 164. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will indicate, in respect of each wastewater treatment plants around the State, the total volume of waste processed in 2013 compared to 2012; if increases in volume can be attributed to the new septic tank regulations; if the monetary gain accrued from the new regime has offset the increased costs of waste...