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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome our guests and thank them for their presentations. My first question is for the Minister. Does he think he has been kept adequately informed by the CRU and EirGrid over the past 12 months regarding security of supply? Maybe he will share with us some of the requests he has received from both parties. Does he believe the Department has acted in a timely way in responding to that?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: It was for the Minister. There has been some public comment that there was not an appropriate flow of information or that the Department was told all about this problem at some stage. I want to give the Minister an opportunity to clarify that chain of communication between both parties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I do not want to put Ms MacEvilly off, but it is important we clarify at the start whether there was a draft tender document that had pre-qualification criteria that required grid access and planning permission. Was that removed or did it not make it to the final tender document?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: -----but on the basis that this was a T-4 auction, there is a standard which states that a gas plant takes about seven years. When we go to tender, we expect people to have done at least three years' work prior to that, if we are going for a T-4 auction, which was the case in this instance. I am not an expert on this but the information that has been provided to me seems to suggest that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: To be clear, the concerns are simple. They are that the bid process that the CRU undertook allowed a broad spectrum of actors into the bid, some of whom clearly bid low - take away the other elements that I have said - and who ended up winning and being unable to deliver. The purpose, at least my understanding of bids generally, of having a pre-qualification is that one removes the...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I welcome the opportunity to discuss this issue as per the way the amendment is phrased. There are plenty of homeowners in County Clare who are affected by this. They rightly have a level of upset about some of the quarries, and in the case of Clare it is CRH, quite frankly. It is probably the biggest quarry and biggest aggregate company in western Europe, with...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I, too, have concerns in respect of the section. In nearly any walk of life, if a person is to appeal a decision, that is usually done on the basis that an error was made in the decision or further clarification can be provided that will make it easier for a decision maker to understand what the issue was in the first instance or help the applicant to gain access to whatever scheme it may...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Jul 2022)

Timmy Dooley: ..., two formidable women who have worked hard to put together a comprehensive response, I have learned they still have very serious concerns. They are not questioning the Minister’s integrity at all but are concerned about how this will play out over time. They have raised some serious issues with me. It is understandable because the homeowners concerned in Clare, who are no...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Jul 2022)

Timmy Dooley: Together with others, I recognise, and I am sure the Minister does, the importance of ensuring that people do not get priced out of the market just as there appears to be a scheme that has the potential to help them. Inflation is certainly out of control at present. We see it in every aspect of life. Prior to the war, the pandemic and the impact that it had on disruption of supply chains...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Jul 2022)

Timmy Dooley: At the outset, I expressed my concerns about this matter so I think that the Minister knows my concerns. There is a view, particularly regarding pyrite, that the cracking is relatively less severe when it comes to mica. I have seen many affected houses throughout my county and over time cracks manifest themselves to a greater extent, which may fall in with the prioritisation of the...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (7 Jul 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister of State and Senator O'Reilly for their work in bringing forward a sensible amendment. It does not solve the problem entirely but it goes part of the way. The concerns I had, raised with me by Cup Print and others, were that we were potentially eliminating the option for a paper cup and replacing it with an option for hard plastic. I did not take the concern on board...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I thank all the participants for their thoughtful presentations. I have been a supporter of anaerobic digestion for a long time and have wondered aloud on many occasions why we in Ireland have not advanced more quickly, considering the very positive benefits from anaerobic digestion. The reality is that other countries have been way ahead of us. That gives us an opportunity. Our weakness...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to discuss this legislation in the House. This whole Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill should be about ensuring a reduction of the usage of plastic in our economy. If the Minister of State looks to the wider European approach, they have taken a more macro approach. I am thinking of Italy and other countries,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I thank our guests for their presentation. I am sorry that I had to leave for a vote so I missed some of the meeting. We might pick back through and help me to understand some things. Following on from the conversation about the switching out of certain shareholders, is that just a replacement of shareholders that were there at the start? Is that the purpose? Is it just that there are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: There is clearly confidence if others wish to come into play now. It is not those with the greatest risk portfolio that are coming in now; they were there at the beginning. They hope to see a return from it. One would expect that they do anyway. It is either that or they are giving up and walking away, which they are clearly not if somebody else is prepared to invest. Is it fair to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: That at least indicates there is a group of shareholders who have confidence in what has happened to date. That is positive news.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: There is an intermittent phase between where one company finishes work and another begins. I made a lot of noise when it became clear that NBI was going to run a parallel network alongside the existing one. Has NBI looked again at dovetailing onto the end of a line? People in this room know a lot about what Eir did when it passed 300,000 premises, then truncated it and left a black box,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Home Help Service (22 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to raise what I believe is an important issue and I am pleased the Minister of State with responsibility for this area is here. He does not need me to tell him about the difficulties that exist in our acute hospitals and the significant delays people have in getting access to bed capacity. Much of the elective work is now delayed because of the crisis in accident...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Home Help Service (22 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister of State's response. While I know what the Department is trying to do, I am concerned that the issue will be lost in reports and more bureaucracy. The State has outsourced this service and does so with other services through section 38 and section 39 agreements. Clarecare in County Clare is an example. It was never given back the funding that was cut. There were...

Seanad: Annual Transition Statement: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive statement. At the outset, the Chair opined that he had gone well over time, which helps all of us, because it means he has covered most of the bases. I listened with interest to the two previous speakers, two people for whom I have great respect. They both spoke about the social justice aspect of climate change and also the concerns...