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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: When did Dr. McGowan first become aware of possible non-compliance, from an ESB perspective, with the investment profile that was permitted by the commission?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: What about the price control before No. 3? Did Dr. McGowan mention PR3?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Was there a No. 2?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Considering the leakage has been occurring for 20 years, was this issue raised as part of the price control prior to 2011?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: That would speak to a time when there was no shortage of economic activity, no constraints on the capacity to borrow, and no issues over the growth in the company's activity. It might be worth looking at what the chief executive was paid then. Was there was any curtailment of the capacity to fund the very large salary of the then chief executive and the associated entitlements?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Perhaps the witnesses will revert. When did the commission become aware that there was an issue? Did the ESB notify the commission in advance of the programme that was aired?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Dr. McGowan made it clear that he does not have primary responsibility for the environmental risk aspect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Who does?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Does the commission have resources or require resources that would give it some powers in this regard? Obviously, it is not going to require that it be the key environmental risk analyst but is there a necessity for additional resources to allow it to be more familiar with what is going on from that perspective or to build an interface between itself and the body with primary responsibility?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Dr. McGowan outlined the regulatory role - the efficient spending of resources to ensure delivery according to the objective of the organisation. To do that, however, the commission must have some expertise in the areas of health and safety and environmental risk. He might talk to us about that function within his organisation. While the commission does not have primary responsibility, and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Are they independent external advisers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: But it is not the EPA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I am just trying to be helpful in getting to a point that works. There is no charge to suggest not enough moneys were given. Clearly, under PR3, the resources set aside were more than adequate. Do the witnesses accept that there is probably a greater requirement to involve the EPA in that process in respect of the standards they are setting on the other side, such that everybody is aware...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: My recollection is that there were 43,000 litres in one of the years. Was that 2018?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: My recollection from the information is that there was a figure of 43,000 litres last year.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Stop.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Communities in west Clare are shocked by the ESB's recent announcement that it will cut about 100 full-time positions at Moneypoint power station. We recognise that Moneypoint's days as a coal-burning facility are numbered. There is a date in 2025 by which coal will no longer be burned. That is in line with our climate change commitments and is widely accepted in the community. However,...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: The written response circulated on the Minister's behalf states:The challenge during the transition out of carbon intensive sources of fuel is to continue to support those communities and jobs associated with that business and to identify and develop new opportunities for employment. What vehicle will be used to do that? I ask the Minister to establish a task force with the specific...
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Preventing catastrophic global temperature increases means rapid and deep decarbonisation in accordance with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Biodiversity loss is also an existential threat, which is fundamentally linked to the climate crisis. This House has made great strides in recent months in the form of the report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Are we not going to do the questioning-----