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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Currently, there is no usage of the fracked gas. We would be the only outlet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: That is okay. It has been helpful.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I will share time with Deputy Marc MacSharry. It is widely understood economic prudence is at the forefront of this budget, given the possible impact of the UK leaving the EU without a deal in the coming weeks. As this is the first budget since the declaration of a climate and biodiversity emergency, the Government will equally be judged on the priority it gives to taking action in face...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Administration (10 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 17. To ask the Minister for Health the action that will be taken to reduce the waiting list for homecare in County Clare in which the number waiting has seen a significant rise during 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41197/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries Stocks (10 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 225. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the response to an unidentified white skin fungus present in salmonid stocks in counties Louth and Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41392/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Postal Codes (10 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 229. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when an Eircode application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41470/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (15 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 513. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress of an announced plan to introduce a nationwide ban on single use plastics; if a policy has been developed; if so, when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41636/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (15 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 514. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the specific measures contained within a plan to introduce a nationwide ban on single use plastics that are additional to measures contained within the 2018/0172 (COD); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41637/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Data (15 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 515. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of premises within the dark blue area of the national broadband plan for which commercial operators have indicated their intention to provide a service in tabular form; the number of premises indicated by each commercial operator; the percentage of the intervention area covered in a recent consultation on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Data (15 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 516. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a consultation process of the map of the national broadband plan undertaken with commercial operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41639/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Data (15 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 517. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the mechanism by which a commercial operator can inform National Broadband Ireland of a planned commercial operator within the intervention area; if National Broadband Ireland will be allowed to roll out fibre in which a commercial roll-out is already under way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41640/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (15 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 522. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the meetings, both planned and unplanned, that he attended on a trip to New York in September 2019. [41725/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. Mr. O'Sullivan spoke about Gas Networks Ireland's strategy for 2030 and 2050. Has that been costed and independently assessed? Carbon capture and storage is phenomenally expensive. Given where we are going, I wonder why Gas Networks Ireland is not putting a greater emphasis on hydrogen. There is a sustainability issue with carbon capture and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Do our guests envisage a scenario where GNI will inject hydrogen into the network?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I am somewhat concerned that Gas Networks Ireland aims to build 170 CNG plants. Such infrastructure will force the continued use of CNG. Can the plants be easily adapted to use hydrogen at a later stage if it comes online more quickly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Is that because of the cost?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (16 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 33. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on delays to the national broadband plan announced by the Taoiseach. [42315/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (16 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister will be aware that the Taoiseach announced recently that there would be a further delay in signing the contract for the national broadband plan. He cited the intervention by Imagine, a wireless broadband provider, whose interaction with the Department is leading to delays. Will the Minister outline the nature and extent of the delays which have been encountered as a result of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (16 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister for outlining the nature and extent of that consultation. It is well recognised from different media reports that Imagine intends to cover approximately 234,000 premises in the intervention area. I understand Eir has already announced its intention to cover in the region of 80,000 homes in the intervention area. The Minister indicated that there have been 180...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (16 Oct 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Does the Minister accept that the two companies to which I refer have considerable track records, presence and know-how and that their response to him, if it is as reported in the media, will provide a considerable dilemma for the Government, particularly in the context of state aid rules? Does he also accept that this development has the potential to delay the signing of the national...