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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Ms Quane believes the reduction in the use and the proper monitoring of those gases would have happened any way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: To put it a different way, when Mr. O'Loughlin raised concerns with the ESB about the monitoring, accounting, reporting and assessment of what was happening, he had a valid concern about what was happening with the use of SF6 in the ESB? Does Ms Quane agree?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am only touching the surface and I am using a random example. One of the other issues Mr. O’Loughlin raised-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is fine. I should acknowledge that I had been talking to Mr. O’Loughlin during this process. I did not approach the ESB on any of this because I understood there was a mediation process taking place and I was hoping that it would resolve the issues. I am not questioning any of the ESB representatives or Mr. O'Loughlin. On a public interest matter, a concern was raised about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I do not want to get into the specifics too much because I am not knowledgeable enough. I am going on memory and, if I recall rightly, my understanding is that there were about 14 vans in the inventory but 30 in existence. Some had been in operation for 20 years but there had not been any maintenance or proper accounting of the repair and maintenance of those vehicles. On the basis of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: On the basis of the protected disclosure, did the ESB find that what Mr. O'Loughlin had been saying was happening with regard to those vans was an accurate assessment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I only caught the end of the response to Deputy Stanley's question with regard to the leak of mineral oil surrounding the cables in the Dublin area. I will take a very localised approach but I noted Mr. Mulvaney stated the incident under the Royal Canal had not led to any leak of mineral oils into the canal. I understand there was another incident under the River Dodder in my own...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Would that have been reported to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Should it have been reported?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. O'Loughlin cited the 2003 groundwater directive and, as I recall, argued that it should be reported. Why would the ESB report it to the council but not to the EPA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I understand what Mr. Mulvaney said about the technical difficulties in finding these leaks. We heard earlier that the leakage rate was 90,000 l in 2003. Was it 43,000 l last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How many thousand litres is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Are those mineral oils soluble?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: In the presentation from the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, that we had here the other day, its representatives were citing the fact that in the PR3, there had been an underspend in this subcategory. This budget line was €20 million for that five-year period but expenditure had been roughly €6 million. They were not able to update us on the latest estimate for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It allocated roughly €25 million in PR4 for this project item. We are in the fourth or fifth year of that five-year period. Can Mr. Mulvaney give me an indication of what the spend is to date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We are pretty much at the end of the PR4 period and to have spent one third of the budget in the last six months of the five-year period would seem to back up Mr. O'Loughlin's contention that this does not get the attention that bigger, easier projects get. This is difficult work

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Does Mr. Mulvaney have any assessment of the rate of leakage in the first six months of this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Okay. I do not want to go into the personal details here. I will leave it at that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The European Council recently failed to get agreement on a net-zero climate emissions target by 2050. The Government's climate action plan states the Government would agree to such a target subject to European agreement. Is the Government willing to commit to net-zero emissions by 2050, irrespective of what happens in the European Union process, or will we wait for agreement among all...