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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Dr. McGowan stated that the CRU has no interest in environmental issues in its work and that it is just an economic regulator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: I do not wish to be rude but I was slightly shocked when I heard the earlier introduction and the corresponding responses. If one is involved in energy policy for any period, this trialogue between environmental protection, competitiveness and security tends to become ingrained in one's head. I have never heard someone in recent years state that he or she just looks at the economic aspect....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: To return to the analogy, the CRU is regulating Irish Water and it states that the latter is of interest to it if sewage is going directly into Dublin Bay. When it comes to ESB Networks, however, if this oil fluid is going into the Royal Canal, it is not as much of an interest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: It is a different scale but similar in the sense that the crew knew for several years, according to Mr. O'Rourke, that there was an issue with leaking oils into the Royal Canal, the Grand Canal or the Dodder. These are all sensitive locations. Every location is sensitive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Thousands of litres were involved. Did I hear Dr. McGowan state, in answer to a question from Deputy Stanley, that the CRU's role is safety regulator when it comes to the gas network but not when it comes to the electricity network?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: If I was an ESB member of staff and I had a concern about safety, to whom would I go?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Is there a safety risk with 50,000 litres of this hydraulic oil leaking into the watercourses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: With regard to the figure of €25.4 million under PR4 - I am not sure of the exact figure - and given that this issue has become public following the RTÉ programme and the CRU has appeared before this committee, is there an estimate of how much has been spent in this PR4 period to date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Has the CRU talked to ESB Networks about this issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: After becoming aware of the protected disclosure in February, that the programme was being broadcast in June and that the committee was investigating it, has CRU communicated in any way with ESB Networks on this issue over the past six or three months?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Ms Trant must have some ongoing sense of the matter. In monitoring programmes of expenditure, she must have some mechanism other than having to wait for the end of a five-year period. She must have some way of monitoring, on an ongoing basis, how things are going in the various budget lines.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Given this committee's work and the high-profile nature of this case, no one has informed anyone as to what the level of spending is in PR4. How would I find that out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Given that this committee was to investigate this issue, surely it must have crossed Ms Trant's mind to get a sense of the level of spending in the past four years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: It is relevant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: The point I made at the outset is not a minor one; it goes to the core of the issue. There was an OECD review of regulators and, by and large, the CRU came out with flying colours. My experience, as a former Minister, is that one cannot act as a regulator if one does not take the environment into account as well as public safety. If the legislation is at fault in this regard, then we must...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: On Monday the Environmental Protection Agency issued a warning that air quality in Dublin had breached health limits owing to traffic, causing asthma among children and heart and lung conditions among the people of the city. That is not a surprise. Delegates from all over the world came to the recent Velo-city conference and could not believe how shocking the traffic management system in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: We will seek to use that mandate to write a new national development plan that will be properly climate-proofed. We will also look for savings. Fine Gael's Deputies and Senators in Limerick are rattling cages, insisting that we need a N20 solution-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: -----when there are other solutions available. A route via Cahir would save €500 million which could be used to provide the public transport system Fine Gael is not providing in Limerick or Cork. On Monday the party voted against such a system. The air quality issue in Dublin is exacerbated by the fact that the Government is widening every motorway approach road in Dublin to the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: Indeed we will.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Jul 2019)
Eamon Ryan: It is mentioned in the national development plan.