Results 501-520 of 731 for speaker:Naoise Ó Muirí
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: Okay. I have a couple of questions. The witnesses mentioned large energy users coming with generating capacity to meet additional demand, but I am not hearing that is renewable. Is the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, mandating that as covered within its policy or framework?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: Can the CRU just mandate it? "Maximise" sounds like there is a lot of wiggle room.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: Now is the time to do that. We have climate targets to meet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: Regarding Uisce Éireann, it was looking for an 18% increase and ended up with a 10% increase in charges. Is that a five year window? Have we any sense from Uisce Éireann whether we may be looking at more requests for increases in the future? Again, Uisce Éireann does not have a domestic customer base. Effectively, it has a commercial base. The figure of 10% is quite a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: Do you have any sense of what they are?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: Going back to large energy users, the CRU sees the energy networks. There is a lot of talk about prioritisation of users at the moment, which is fair enough. Are we at a capacity issue yet? Are we saying there is a capacity issue yet, or that it is imminent, and we will be forced into that prioritisation issue? What is the CRUs view on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: But you are not saying the system is at capacity. Prioritisation is needed when we are coming close to that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: Regarding Irish energy prices versus European prices, there is research that shows we are up at the top of league tables of European prices. The CRU only has control of the elements it controls itself. However, what is the witnesses' assessment of why that is? Is there an issue with the pan-European market on the wholesale side, if we are still up at the top consistently? It knocks on to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: We now move on to the second round for members, who I ask to be as efficient as they can within three minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: Last question, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: I thank Deputy Daly. I call Deputy Whitmore.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: This is the final question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: I will have to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: Is there a question there? I have other members looking-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: Sorry, Deputy. We will have to move on. I call on Senator Noonan, Deputy Ó Cearúil agus Senator Higgins.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: Can we just-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: That is perfect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: The Senator will ask some questions to which the witnesses might provide written responses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: Those are questions for written response back to this committee. There are a couple of other items that will also be supplied. The witnesses are going to supply up-to-date information on disconnection rates and arrears for the purposes of the committee. I think there was some information on unit rates or another matter that Dr. Kavanagh did not have to hand and was going to supply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Naoise Ó Muirí: We will get those. The witnesses will provide those to the committee as well. I thank everybody for attending here today. I propose we publish the opening statement on the committee's website, with everyone's agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed. I propose we bring Mr. John Melvin back because he did not answer one question, so we will have him back for a meeting on his own, if that is...