Results 6,401-6,420 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: It would hugely damage this country and put up electricity prices.
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: Excuse me, the Deputy will have to retract his statement.
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: To claim someone is dishonest-----
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I am simply making the point-----
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: -----with regard to the debate we are having on public service obligations, that his proposal to stop the system would result in higher prices and major economic damage for this country. That is a point that is entirely valid within this debate.
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: To answer the Deputy's question-----
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: -----although he certainly has not said he would not do it, which is a real concern-----
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: What I said-----
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: A Cheann Comhairle, I require an opportunity to reply. I clearly explained about the potential costs for offshore wind energy. First, we would have to send our proposals to Brussels for clearance, and we have not got that yet, so I cannot give the Deputy an answer until that happens.
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: Even beyond that, however, those cost scenarios depend-----
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: -----on the outcome of the-----
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: Please allow me to answer the question. The Deputy is throwing out insults and slurs-----
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: -----but he will not listen to my answers. In answer to his question, as I said, further analysis is required - the likes of the study we are doing in the ISLES project, which requires us to work out what arrangements can be made within the UK market. The Deputy needs to know that before I can give him an answer. Anyone would. We will have meetings over the next few months with the UK and...
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I cannot give the Deputy an answer until I have some sense of what they will say-----
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: -----because I see this as an export opportunity.
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: That is straight talking. It may not be the answer the Deputy wants to hear, but it is the truth of what is happening in policy.
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I wish the Deputy would change his policy, which is in danger of ruining renewables in this country.
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: The Deputy refuses to recognise that he got it wrong.
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: He is saying in the press that I would stop it, yet in here he says it is actually the right idea.
- PSO Levy (20 Oct 2010)
Eamon Ryan: I will come back to that because it is a problem the Deputy needs to address.