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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We are only starting this revolution. The dance is only starting in the integration with variable demand. It is the demand side and variability on it which have overcome the system inertia and other difficulties, including the physics, that we recognise are real challenges. If we are committing to build, let us say, 5 GW of offshore wind in the Irish Sea, as we should and as we have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: While I agree with Mr. Foley that we need to ship power to Dublin in particular, the North Sea's offshore grid initiative has been running for ten years. We did the isles project ten years ago to look at this very issue. It is not as if we have not been thinking about this. If we build that greenlink interconnector and find out five or ten years later that it has not been designed to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: No. For example, the greenlink interconnector cannot possibly be done in the old UK merchant line way where it just comes into the Irish system without giving us flexibility to reduce curtailment and constraint. Its facility has to be under EirGrid's control if we are going to have the Danish and Dutch model to which Mr. Foley referred. We need that level of strategic thinking to indicate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I agree fully. I have been talking to people who have been involved in this in Europe and it is starting to happen in the North Sea and elsewhere. They deal in 5 GW chunks. While what I have said might sound outlandishly brave, big or ambitious, it is not. This is the way it will be built. What I hear in Brussels and Europe is that they are dying for us to come into the game. They are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Did legislation in Westminster two weeks ago clear that hurdle?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: There are discussions taking place in Brussels today and it seems the EU is making it clear within the Brexit negotiations that consistent application of energy, climate and environmental rules, in particular in relation to the all-island electricity market, will be a sine qua nonof any backstop arrangement or regulatory alignment in a review. Does EirGrid see that creating any obstacles?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I heard an engineer saying recently that we will not be able to do what is needed if we try to do it on a 26-county basis. We need to work this on an all-island basis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: The key to this new evolving market is the dance between variable supply and variable demand. About two years ago at some conference or other an EirGrid engineer said that there was 150 MW of industrial demand that could be switched on and off as part of that. Where is that figure now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I think Michael Liberick in the UK makes a valid point that there is still a real challenge in this renewable revolution that is taking place of how in a high pressure anticyclone environment in the middle of winter, the likes of last January, we might have a two or three week period without wind. Obviously solar is not a kicker. As we get up to these very high levels of penetration, is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: In this new dance, capacity repayments are very old school and very much shunned by people who think this is where we are going. Why would we not rely on interconnection rather than capacity payments as a way of meeting that need?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is not this capacity for big base load to be sitting there.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We are about to go to the next meeting of the Joint Committee on Climate Action, at which the Secretaries General from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Finance will make a presentation. We hear in advance that there has been reform of the public spending code such that, from now on, in respect of any project and its climate assessment, the arrangement...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: On a point of order-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We deserve answers.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is ridiculous.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (14 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 27. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings and discussions he had with his counterparts at the recent European Council meeting. [45007/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 37. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Ms Arlene Foster. [45008/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Business of Joint Committee (14 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Before we deal with the main business scheduled, I wish to state that I believe the work we are doing is really useful and the various hearings have been productive, but for us to be able to write a report we need more details back from each of the Departments that has already presented to us. Specifically, we have not got from any of them the additional measures they are considering putting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Business of Joint Committee (14 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Where was that delivered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Let us take it that it will be €32.