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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the conversion cost? For example, if I have a 2012 truck and want to change it to a 560 Arctic Scania, what will the cost be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Going by what I heard earlier, I understand it will be possible to change over.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: People who have a second-hand truck will not throw out €17,000 for conversion if they get the same mileage from diesel and gas, unless there is an incentive. Does Mr. O'Sullivan agree that a business will not do this unless there is some incentive?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It was encouraging to hear Gas Networks Ireland was looking at an option for businesses in parts of the west and other parts of the country without a gas pipeline. I presume it is looking at the possibility of supplying them by truck.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it envisaging giving it to them at the same price as that paid by a business sitting on top of the pipe?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How was the price of 79 cent set?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Can something be done to facilitate those businesses which are not fortunate enough to have a gas pipeline beside them? Could something be done to ensure the price is approximately the same, whether one is next to the pipe or 20 or 50 miles away from it? Could a better deal be done to make sure this is facilitated? From what I understand, there is now a middleman to haul the gas supplies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is not the case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am aware of factories in towns where there are gas pipelines and in other towns where it has to be delivered by lorries. I am aware of one company with two factories in Ireland, one of which has it piped to it, while the other has to have it delivered. The difference in cost in running those two factories is €140,000. That is a disadvantage when one is trying to create jobs in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Have the witnesses spoken to people from the likes of Bus Éireann about the 100 new buses that are being bought? Have they been asked if 20 or 50 buses could be tried with CNG? If a haulier buys 16 trucks that use diesel instead of gas, what are the percentages? If the haulier has an extra truck going up and down the road because he stayed with diesel as opposed to using gas, unless...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If we want to get to a perfect world, it will cost us. It is the same with every other country.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Michael Fitzmaurice: He is not wrong.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Deputy is right.
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I commend some of the councils, especially in my area of the country, for the work they have done. They are down on staff, but in fairness to some of the senior engineers on the councils, they worked night and day. I have to commend them on that. They did not have the resources, but they did whatever they could do to help the people. The Army carried out 2,686 duties, but why am I led...
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is not great that they had to be together. In the line of farmers, in Athlone, south Galway and various areas around the country, fodder has been badly affected. A young guy in the Visitors Gallery, Francis Nally, had to dry off every one of his cows. How does the Minister intend to look after situations like that, where farmers have been badly affected? One thing we need to look at...
- Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I have more to say.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (13 Jan 2016)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 345. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 25 November 2015, the experience and expertise the director of the appeals office holds to make the director suitable to conduct a fresh and independent inspection as requested by the petitions committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46851/15]