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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Timmy Dooley: There is an intermittent phase between where one company finishes work and another begins. I made a lot of noise when it became clear that NBI was going to run a parallel network alongside the existing one. Has NBI looked again at dovetailing onto the end of a line? People in this room know a lot about what Eir did when it passed 300,000 premises, then truncated it and left a black box,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome our guests and thank them for their presentations. My first question is for the Minister. Does he think he has been kept adequately informed by the CRU and EirGrid over the past 12 months regarding security of supply? Maybe he will share with us some of the requests he has received from both parties. Does he believe the Department has acted in a timely way in responding to that?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: It was for the Minister. There has been some public comment that there was not an appropriate flow of information or that the Department was told all about this problem at some stage. I want to give the Minister an opportunity to clarify that chain of communication between both parties.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: It is for Mr. Foley and the regulator. I ask them to concentrate on what happened regarding the non-delivery of the contracted capacity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I do not want to put Ms MacEvilly off, but it is important we clarify at the start whether there was a draft tender document that had pre-qualification criteria that required grid access and planning permission. Was that removed or did it not make it to the final tender document?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I do not want to keep interrupting Ms MacEvilly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: -----but on the basis that this was a T-4 auction, there is a standard which states that a gas plant takes about seven years. When we go to tender, we expect people to have done at least three years' work prior to that, if we are going for a T-4 auction, which was the case in this instance. I am not an expert on this but the information that has been provided to me seems to suggest that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: As a regulator-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: This is an important point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: This is the crux. I do not want to tell the Chairman how to do his job but the purpose of this meeting today is to understand how we end up in a situation where there are potential blackouts. We have had many other discussions. They are really important but today is about what happens within our system. We have talked about the other European issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Was planning of grid access part of that bid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: To be clear, the concerns are simple. They are that the bid process that the CRU undertook allowed a broad spectrum of actors into the bid, some of whom clearly bid low - take away the other elements that I have said - and who ended up winning and being unable to deliver. The purpose, at least my understanding of bids generally, of having a pre-qualification is that one removes the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Does-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: In light of what happened does the Commission for Regulation of Utilities have concerns in relation to the bid system, notwithstanding the allegations I made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Could the witness name it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: The witness has privilege in here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: It could be excluded the next time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: The question I had has been asked and answered. I thank everybody for their presentation and recognise the effort they make on all our behalf.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I ask the Leader to organise a debate on the control of dogs and, in particular, the activity that seems to have increased in recent times of illegal hunting by a certain fraternity using lurchers. It is a practice that has become considerably prevalent in the north Clare area where there is a particularly good stock of hares because that region is known for regulated coursing. We now have...