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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental Protection Agency (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: What about the cost to the local authority, which would have to have roads of a certain dimension in order to accommodate heavy lorries carrying water? Is that part of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental Protection Agency (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: It is not part of this study.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental Protection Agency (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Have the delegates considered how the fracking industry has misused the US Environmental Protection Agency and potentially even discredited it recently by putting forward a distorted view of that agency's information? Is there a risk to the reputation of the EPA in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental Protection Agency (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: The progress report is dated 22 April. Addressing my query may not be within the delegates' jurisdiction. I only received the progress report on 28 May, a month and six days after it had been issued. The committee received a status report which was a page and a bit long. I became quite angry when I received it. Was the progress report prepared and sent at the same time as that status...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental Protection Agency (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I am confused. The document I have reads "Progress Report".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental Protection Agency (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: There may well have been; I accept that. Regardless of whether it is called a status report, it is useful. Given that I received it on 28 May and would like to run it by various organisations, would the delegates be open to meeting me to discuss my detailed points on it when I have them put together?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental Protection Agency (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: As an aid to that flow of information, would the delegates be in a position to advise me on the various modules on which each company is working?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental Protection Agency (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I would like to know which body is responsible for each module.

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: It must have been about the early 2000s, long before I had any ambition or intention of coming to this place that I first heard in the news that Ireland was to have a post code system. I thought that made obvious sense. I certainly did not think, back then, that I would be standing here today and saying to the Minister that I will not be able to support this potentially good idea. I need...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the focus there will be on tackling fuel poverty in the upcoming White Paper on energy. [23467/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: What focus will be placed on tackling fuel poverty in the upcoming White Paper on energy?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I thank the Minister. Those of us who are out meeting people know that, in very many circumstances, there are still people who face a choice between heating and eating. The financial supports for energy have not kept pace with the increasing costs of energy. We need to examine further the issues of retrofitting, solar energy panels on houses, building standards and planning controls. Will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: The point I made about the EU is that we have copious documentation about the wider energy issues, including the press for renewable energies and the policy of reducing CO2emissions output. Sometimes this can have a cost impact on consumers. We must protect those at risk of fuel poverty in all those discussions. I do not see the same emphasis on the cost poverty element of it. I would...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Post Office Network (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the workings of the Post Office network business development group and when a report on its findings will be available. [23468/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Post Office Network (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: As this question, which seeks an update from the Minister on the workings of the Post Office network business development group and when its report will be available, was submitted prior to publication of the report this morning I am sure the Minister's response will focus more on the findings of the report than on when it will be available.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Post Office Network (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I look forward to reading the report in detail. I understand that all Departments were party to the Post Office network business development group, including and, perhaps primarily, the Department of Social Protection. I have received correspondence from various post offices, the most recent from the post office in beautiful Easkey, County Sligo, which is on the Atlantic coast. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Post Office Network (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: The Department of Social Protection payments constitute up to one third of the business of post offices and without that business, post offices will close. If people are not going in to do business, they will close. Did the development group consider the possibility of EFT capability within the post office network? I agree that we cannot be like Canute in holding back the tide with a rake....

Other Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: This issue is of more than academic interest to me because I live in the area most immediately threatened by fracking. Last week the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications discussed its progress report with representatives of the EPA. I have described CDM Smith as a cheerleader for the fracking industry. My major concern is that it is the lead company for the study. How can any...

Other Questions: Energy Conservation (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there will be a proposed increase in funding for retrofitting, as part of the energy White Paper. [23136/15]

Other Questions: Energy Conservation (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I thank the Minister for his reply. Retrofitting houses is certainly a good investment and any increase in the amount going towards it will certainly pay big dividends, not just for those whose houses are being retrofitted but also for society at large. It is guaranteed to reduce energy dependence. The need for such work should be assessed, particularly in rural houses many of which...