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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Telecommunications and Energy Councils: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (28 May 2014)

Michael Colreavy: It is a progress report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Telecommunications and Energy Councils: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (28 May 2014)

Michael Colreavy: As regards projects of common interest, I understand that all of these questions are with regard to security of supply, competitiveness of costs, streamlining operations and all that sort of stuff. Sometimes it seems to me that the focus is not on the consumers - the people who use the energy. It seems to me to be more about support for companies than protecting the right to an affordable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Telecommunications and Energy Councils: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (28 May 2014)

Michael Colreavy: It does not address the point made about Government correspondence, signed by the Minister, which is normalising fracking. Where I come from, fracking is not normal and will never be regarded as normal. Will the EPA report measure the level of public resistance, should there be any attempt to introduce fracking in the north west? Does the Minister know the area? Has he seen it? Can he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Telecommunications and Energy Councils: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (28 May 2014)

Michael Colreavy: The Minister should not dismiss or misinterpret what I said. I said the EPA study will not incorporate the level of resistance there will be at local level to these proposals. I live there, my family lives there and I hope my children and grandchildren will live there. The EPA study will not take into account the impact on the daily lives of people who live in and love that region. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Telecommunications and Energy Councils: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (28 May 2014)

Michael Colreavy: The letter the Minister wrote adds a normalcy to hydraulic fracturing which it does not deserve and his Department needs to be conscious of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Telecommunications and Energy Councils: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (28 May 2014)

Michael Colreavy: No. What I am saying is that if the planning process is to be followed as normal, we would not be considering hydraulic fracturing in an area where one cannot get permission to build a family home because a septic tank might damage the water.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Green Paper on Energy Policy: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (4 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: I welcome the Minister and his team and thank him for his presentation. I said in the Dáil that I welcomed the Minister's initiative in putting forward this Green Paper. I could hardly do any less, having called for it for some two years now. I recognise it is not going to be easy to come up with a blueprint to ensure we have a sustainable, secure, competitive energy market that...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: There are times in politics when it is difficult to know what to say, we go past disappointment, frustration and anger and we are reminded what we have allowed to happen in the name of religion or morality and society. This is one such occasion. I am glad the Government has agreed to move quickly on this issue. It would be entirely unseemly for any of us to use this as a political...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (12 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: 2. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the British Government's plans to expand fracking operations in Britain; his views on whether fracking is being promoted at a European level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24805/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (12 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: 5. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has received any report on the environmental damage caused by flooding in an area in Colorado, USA where hydraulic fracturing has been carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24806/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (12 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: I am most unhappy that Questions Nos. 2 and 5 have been grouped. The only commonality is that both address the issue of fracking, but if this was followed to its logical conclusions, we would have three groups of questions covering communications, energy and natural resources. I ask the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for a little leeway, given that I will be trying to cover two questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (12 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: Question No. 2 asks the Minister his views on the British Government's plans to expand fracking operations in Britain and on whether fracking is being promoted at European level and to make a statement on the matter. Question No. 5 specifically asks him whether he has received any report on the environmental damage caused by flooding in an area in Colorado, USA where hydraulic fracturing has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (12 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: I was not notified until after 5 p.m. yesterday that the questions had been grouped. I did not have an opportunity to contest it with whoever the decision maker was.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (12 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: On Question No. 2 on the promotion of fracking at European level, I am sure the Minister of State is very much aware of the lobbying trying to force the issue fracking onto the agenda. We need to be very concerned about what is happening in the Six Counties. If water in County Fermanagh is poisoned, it will not stop at the Border. Poisoned water does not recognise any border. Any person...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (12 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: I thank the Minister of State. Is the Minister of State in communication with the authorities in the Six Counties in Northern Ireland to ensure that nothing is being done that would jeopardise industry or people's health in this part of the country? I am surprised and disappointed that the Minister of State has not received an official report on what is happening in Colorado. The Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (12 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: Is the Minister of State happy that there are no fracked wells in the Six Counties?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (12 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: Could I have a copy of the report the Minister of State has from Colorado?

Other Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (12 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: I understand the concept of a report being submitted to a Minister for his or her information. Will Ms Justice McGuinness's report inform the planning process?

Other Questions: National Postcode System Establishment (12 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: 8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the minimum turnover requested in respect of companies tendering for the post code project; the reasons for the minimum level of turnover requested; his views on whether the minimum level of turnover would have rendered many Irish companies ineligible to quote; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24783/14]

Other Questions: National Postcode System Establishment (12 Jun 2014)

Michael Colreavy: I have touched on this issue before concerning the postcode project and the minimum level of turnover that was requested of companies to tender for the contract. The last time we spoke, the Minister did not have the information to hand. Has he established since then the minimum level of turnover required? Why was that level required and does he believe that it was such that most Irish...