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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Regulation of Gas Industry: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)

Michael Moynihan: Some 18% of the 30% is 6%. Currently, there is a 2% to 2.5% reduction. However, there should be a full 6% reduction at some stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Energy Prices: Discussion (25 Feb 2015)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Chairman and welcome the organisations before us. It was a very worthwhile discussion and debate. Some of the witnesses have explained the exasperation that is prevalent and the perception that prices have dropped in the last quarter of 2014 with no corresponding price drop in household or business energy bills. I understand hedging but there has been a considerable reduction...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Generation (26 Feb 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 241. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has examined converting the coal fired power station at Moneypoint, County Clare, into a biomass energy power station; if it has been costed. [8535/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (26 Feb 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 242. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if biomass will form part of future Government energy policy. [8536/15]

Dairy Sector: Statements (4 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. I was raised on a farm that was confined to quotas since 1983 and having been a full-time farmer for almost eight years under the quota regime prior to coming to this House in 1997, I know at first-hand the difficulties and the significant constraints of the milk quota regime imposed on many family farms over the past 32 years. The date of...

Dairy Sector: Statements (4 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: I agree but there needs to be more research undertaken. These things do not happen overnight. I know we are in a global market and what is happening in the United States or in China has an influence. Six weeks ago I thought it was time to ensure a floor price for milk because many farmers would have borrowed money. Young farmers have been taking the opportunity to produce more milk, as...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Regulation (10 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 354. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views regarding the increased levels of administration work imposed on child care centres, in particular, resulting from the programme implementation platform, which has significantly increased the paperwork and time spent on administration for child care providers; if he will provide funding to assist with this administration work;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety Scheme (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 77. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on including funding under the new farm safety scheme for the installation of a road underpass, in view of the large number of farmers who have land holdings on either side of busy roads; his views that this presents a clear safety hazard to both farmers and road users alike; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the delegation from Bus Éireann and the NTA before us this morning. We are having a timely discussion. The Dublin metropolitan area has been mentioned, so is every route there paying for itself or turning a profit? Services throughout rural communities, such as broadband, have people "tut-tutting" at the notion of a dispersed population, and that attitude is being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: Does Ms Graham not believe that the detailed knowledge possessed by local development companies led to an excellent service? Fermoy is 65 miles from me in Duhallow and Bantry is in the range of 100 plus miles away. Locally, co-ordinators have knowledge about those who need a service, for example, people with disabilities and the elderly. The system was working. I am yet to be satisfied...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: It is important that that line of communication be maintained at all times. The companies are at the coal face.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: Is every route in Dublin profitable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: Can the witnesses imagine what would happen if they cut those services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: If Bus Éireann attempted to cut any bus service in the Dublin metropolitan area, the width of the protests would see us at the Red Cow roundabout trying to get to Leinster House on a Tuesday or a Wednesday, yet Bus Éireann believes the same argument is good enough to cut services for rural communities. Routes are not profitable in Dublin, but it is okay to cut unprofitable routes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: Bus Éireann did not cut any PSO service in urban areas. It is okay to cut PSO services in rural areas. That is the argument.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (12 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 1. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made by his Department in implementing the national digital strategy; if he is satisfied with the progress made to date on the national broadband scheme and its roll-out to rural areas; if he will fulfil in this term the promise under the 2011 programme for Government to deliver fibre to the home or kerb for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (12 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: I wish to ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made by his Department in implementing the national digital strategy, if he is satisfied with the progress made to date on the national broadband scheme and its roll-out to rural areas, if he will fulfil in this term the Government's promise under the 2011 programme for Government to deliver fibre to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (12 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. The programme for Government 2011 promised that fibre would be delivered in its term to the home or kerb for 90% of homes. Has any millimetre of fibre been delivered by the Government in recent years? In respect of the broadband scheme, which was promised before the local elections in April 2014, where is it at in terms of state aid approval by...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (12 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: Has any millimetre of fibre been delivered in the past four years under state aids or grants, given the commitment in the programme for Government? Where is it at? When the announcement was made last April in respect of the new broadband strategy, was it known at that time that application would have to be made to the European Union for state approval and was it a case of sending out a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (12 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: About the State aid, when-----