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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: It is about the conflict arising between the two, which appears to be emerging.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: As it stands, therefore, we cannot definitively say Bord na Móna can do the work it wants to do in respect of rehabilitation until that money is in place, and it is not in place. It is an aspiration at this stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: That will not do what Bord na Móna wants to do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: We will certainly be-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: I am sorry but this region is under immense pressure and we need some answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: They will be much more limited than what Mr. Carroll is proposing. They would merely close the drains. That is its obligation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: How much will that funding amount to? Does the Department have it yet? When does Mr. Carroll expect the Department will get it because commitments are being made on the basis of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: The Department does not have it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: How much in funding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: At this stage, we are no more than hopeful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: We all agree with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: I asked about the ESB. On the plant, we cannot allow the plant to be decommissioned or taken down brick by brick. What is Mr. Dollard's opinion on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: Is it possible to submit a new application, taking cognisance of the conditions associated with the refusal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: We will agree to differ. On decommissioning of the plant, is it still the intention to take it down brick by brick such that what remains will be a brownfield site?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: Is it not the case that when it was built 15 years ago at a cost of €450 million for both stations, it was designed, supposedly, in a way such that it would have capacity to burn other alternatives when we arrived at this juncture ten years hence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: I note one of the conditions of permission is that the plant be demolished. Is that the plan?
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: Are they looking into the hole?
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: The budget made provision for ring-fencing the increased carbon tax revenue and gearing it towards regions that have been unfairly affected, especially following the decision by the ESB not to proceed with the Government policy of co-fuelling two of its plants with peat and biomass. Notwithstanding the difficulties arising from that decision for the Government and its repercussions in terms...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: It is in respect of legislation. It is about providing legislation to ensure that the funds promised to be geared towards just transition, among other initiatives, are provided for in legislation.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)
Barry Cowen: The Minister of State is chancing his arm.