Results 1-20 of 101 for esb speaker:Timmy Dooley

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I know, but I just want him to comment on the ESB saying it would not be able to deliver. While he was CFO, the ESB had to pay the State a penalty of €4 million for that. To his mind, was that a failure of management within the ESB at the time? Does he accept that the failure or whatever decisions were taken then have impacted and added to the potential for blackouts this year on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the ESB (9 Feb 2021)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. O'Rourke for his presentation. My first question concerns the planning process that Coillte is currently engaging with. Since the ESB has a relationship with Coillte, I believe it is important that Mr. O'Rourke might address this issue. I am aware of one very large project in east Clare that is being processed for planning through An Bord Pleanála. From my own engagement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Timmy Dooley: We have seen the issue then in recent weeks where EirGrid has indicated the potential for blackouts in that peak period. I will conclude on this point. Mr. Fenlon was CFO of the ESB until recently. He will be aware that the ESB in an auction in 2019 bid a phenomenally low rate to provide capacity. I think it was about €46 per MW. After two years, in 2021, the ESB, having won the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Timmy Dooley: ...provided and I accept that commercial reality. Now that the bus has effectively stopped, it is time to get a plan in place. I question the idea that something has to be commercially viable. The ESB is a fantastic company. ESB international has developed technologies ahead of others, whether in laying lines under the sea or developing technologies for fixing those lines. The company...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (10 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Communities in west Clare are shocked by the ESB's recent announcement that it will cut about 100 full-time positions at Moneypoint power station. We recognise that Moneypoint's days as a coal-burning facility are numbered. There is a date in 2025 by which coal will no longer be burned. That is in line with our climate change commitments and is widely accepted in the community. However,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I suggest, in light of what we have heard, that we invite ESB back in about this issue. I do not want to get into details but, as have others here, I have had considerable interaction with the whistleblower. He has gone through hell in this time. For some time, the ESB sought to distance itself from discussing the individual issues of the whistleblower. I think we should invite the ESB to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Electric Vehicles: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Timmy Dooley: ...for second-hand imports from the UK for a period until supply increases? He spoke about extending the grants. Are they adequate to reach that target? I thank Ms Sayers for her presentation. The ESB is a wonderful company that has done so much in the development of infrastructure. However, it has shown a lack of ambition in recent years. I believe we should be much further on....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Timmy Dooley: ...that would prevent them. The documentation that was produced in 2014 and 2015 charted what happened. I go back to what I said the last day about the way in which the criteria allowed the ESB to participate. I have not suggested it did anything wrong. It saw what was in front of it. It cornered a big slice of the market and failed to deliver. I find that hard. I have said this to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Recognising that the ESB is populated with highly qualified engineers, it is pretty adept at assessing risk, and the same could be said of Eir and its technical people. It is clear that this is an enormous project with an enormous level and multiplicity of risk. Based on its considerable experience of stringing cable and rolling out fibre and high-voltage lines, ESB recognised that at an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Timmy Dooley: ...of a just transition commissioner should be extended beyond its current scope, which is principally in the midlands in respect of the end of the burning of peat for generating electricity? The ESB has reduced considerably its burning of coal in Clare, the constituency I represent. That was not expected to happen until 2025 but because there is more renewable energy on the grid the output...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. O'Leary for a very thorough, comprehensive presentation. His reputation is such that I would not expect anything less from him. The ESB delivers electricity to every home in the country under a mandate from the State and is subject to oversight by the regulator. If the State was minded to mandate the ESB to deliver broadband to the 542,000 premises in question notwithstanding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)

Timmy Dooley: ...talk to us about that function within his organisation. While the commission does not have primary responsibility, and bearing in mind that managing the risk is such an important part of what ESB and ESB Networks do, how are responsibilities discharged?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Timmy Dooley: .... On the Bord na Móna side, it does not affect my constituency other than people who travel from my constituency to the location in question. I know others have addressed that matter. On the ESB side and around the just transition, I have been in touch with the ESB in the past about what role it would play, particularly in the decision to reduce activity at Moneypoint. I think...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Mr. O'Leary rightly identified that 300,000 customers will benefit and have broadband, and went on to state it will make the process a little more difficult for the ESB. It is a little bit like the television programme, "Dragons' Den", when the dragons say, "I'm out". The ESB is out. While I do not carry any flag for Eir, the truth is that its investment on a commercial basis will put it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2019)

Timmy Dooley: ...vindicates the actions of the whistleblower and "RTÉ Investigates" for bringing such important information to the fore, which now allows the EPA to do its work. We have had difficulties with the ESB in the past regarding the way in which the whistleblower was being treated. I know this is a HR issue and I do not want to get into it but the EPA recognises the importance from an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: ...focus on the significant impact to the midlands is well recognised, there will also be significant impacts in other areas. I speak in particular of the west Clare area and the decision by the ESB to reduce activity at Moneypoint. As Mr. Mulvey knows, the proposal was that the burning of coal at Moneypoint would end by 2025 and communities, politicians and leaders generally were working...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Just Transition Fund (19 Feb 2021)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the clarification that, at least, the ESB is looking at the classification of the plant. The reality is that will probably require approximately 30 employees. However, compared with the height of having 600 employees at the plant, it is no compensation for the wider community. Yet again, it protects the State's requirement to have a back-up electricity supply. What we need is...

Written Answers — Sale of State Assets: Sale of State Assets (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: ...29: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the recommendation on the report of the McCarthy review group on State assets and liabilities to dispose of ESB's overseas interest and to prevent further expansion outside Ireland. [10941/11]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Prices (20 Oct 2016)

Timmy Dooley: 274. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the reported new peak time bill rates to be introduced by the ESB; the impact this will have on domestic electricity prices and usage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31429/16]