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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: In the last 18 months to two years the Minister has indicated a willingness to make significant changes to the manner in which the licence fee is collected in an effort to address the considerable amount of money not collected as a result of evasion which in some quarters is estimated to be between €40 million and €50 million. That is a significant amount of money at a time...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: We have given the Minister great cover.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I support what Deputy Ryan said, and had flagged it earlier. Maybe Members of the Oireachtas can be political at times when we do not need to be. I am sure the Minister and the Department were observing the discussions which were ongoing here. It was not necessary for us to finalise the report in order to know the direction the committee was taking. Early on, the majority of the members...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: The only point that I have not addressed in the past is electric vehicles and the lack of chargers. The Minister has talked about an increase in rapid chargers. Collectively, we will have to find a way to get many more charging points out there. I am hearing it consistently from people who have taken quite some time to get to a point where they are prepared to purchase an electric car....

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: An issue we discussed extensively last year was waste management and potential difficulties arising from changes in the way in which recyclable materials would be collected. As the Minister knows, it is on the agenda again, with a particular company changing its charging structure. At the time there was much talk about the necessity to change consumer behaviour and I know that some money...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Revised) (21 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister might reflect on this point when dealing with the waste collection companies. I am hearing from householders who have adopted brown bins that they are too small. Canister-style bins are given in many areas because the companies do not want too much grass and other materials to be put into them. In the area with which I am familiar householders have told me that the units being...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Household Waste Collection Price Monitoring Group (22 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 234. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 14 February 2018, if he will publish the results of the full four months of price monitoring that his Department's household waste collection price monitoring group has collated. [13247/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Household Waste Collection Price Monitoring Group (22 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 235. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 14 February 2018, the point at which his Department will be satisfied that a waste regulator is needed; and if his Department has set out clear criteria that if satisfied will warrant the establishment of a waste regulator. [13248/18]

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: The Deputy can read it tonight.

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Deputy Ó Broin is one of the establishment now, is he?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Regulation of Utilities: Discussion (27 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I am fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Regulation of Utilities: Discussion (27 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I have more of a general comment rather than an issue for the CRU. I refer to the point on transparency and accountability and the feeling there is a lack of in-depth technical understanding among committee members of the work the CRU does. It is not surprising that we do not have a packed house today because a lot of this is technical. It does not engage people in the way that it might....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commission for Regulation of Utilities: Discussion (27 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: That is why I referred to the budget office here earlier. It allows Parliament to hold Government to account on that. We do not have to go back to where we were with the Central Bank of Ireland and the financial services regulator which all operated to a very high standard, but when it hit the fan, it hit the fan, and nobody was prepared for it. Quite frankly, nobody ever cared about what...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (28 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons in County Clare who have outpatients appointments for procedures in Croom Hospital, Limerick, are no longer being held in Ennis Hospital; his plans to reinstate an outpatient clinic in Ennis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14328/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff Training (29 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 71. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount that his Department has spent on social media training and consultancy in each year since 2016. [14565/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff Training (29 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 72. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if training has been delivered in his Department on the use of social media (details supplied); the frequency and cost of this training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14581/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Training (29 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 84. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount that his Department has spent on social media training and consultancy in each year since 2016. [14569/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Training (29 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 85. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if training has been delivered in his Department on the use of social media (details supplied); the frequency and cost of this training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14585/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Electric Vehicles (29 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 122. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the VRT rebate for electric vehicle purchase from 2021 to 2025. [14893/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Training (29 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that his Department has spent on social media training and consultancy in each year since 2016. [14568/18]