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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It is ridiculous.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (14 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 27. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings and discussions he had with his counterparts at the recent European Council meeting. [45007/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 37. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Ms Arlene Foster. [45008/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I fully agree with Mr. Donnellan when he said it is critical to get this transition in Bord na Móna right. It is a proud, brilliant company with a great workforce and, therefore, we must get it right. I have a terrible fear that it is being led down a cul-de-sac in the context of an unsustainable approach in promoting the continued firing of biomass in power generation. No one I know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Donnellan indicated that Bord na Móna will use 1.3 million tonnes in 2020 and 2021. By 2027, however, Mr. Donnellan said it will convert all three power stations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: It will be almost 3 million tonnes, in that case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Will that be imported from America?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Donnellan stated that people who work in sales and public relations might make the purchase in America. Is the deal in respect of a particular forest in Georgia going ahead?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Bord na Móna still wishes to buy some biomass from America, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: From an environmental perspective, in a world where everyone will have to decarbonise and where biomass is critical for heat and combined heat and power with 90% efficiency, using it for power generation with only 30% efficiency makes no sense. There is a real risk that the company will be worked into that dead end and it will not be sustainable or continued. Another transition will then be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Has any analysis been done of the value the peat would have if it stayed in the ground, in order that the bogs were not opened up, and if it was done as a carbon store? What would the value of that be compared with the value of selling to horticultural growers in Holland or England?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I would love Bord na Móna to boom. Why is it that Mr. Donnellan mentioned nothing about retrofit in his presentation? Mr. Andrew McDowell, the head of the European Investment Bank, EIB, was in Dublin last week and he said that he estimates there is a €50 billion business in this area in Ireland and the main problem is he has no counterparties who are looking to lend in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We should also try to co-ordinate a grid in planning, although there will still be difficulties with the timelines. I was reminded that one of Mr. Donnellan's distant predecessors appeared in one of these rooms and said the maximum amount of renewable power we would ever get in the system was 800 MW, after which it would be extremely dangerous. As Mr. Donnellan said in his presentation,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: We are only starting this revolution. The dance is only starting in the integration with variable demand. It is the demand side and variability on it which have overcome the system inertia and other difficulties, including the physics, that we recognise are real challenges. If we are committing to build, let us say, 5 GW of offshore wind in the Irish Sea, as we should and as we have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: While I agree with Mr. Foley that we need to ship power to Dublin in particular, the North Sea's offshore grid initiative has been running for ten years. We did the isles project ten years ago to look at this very issue. It is not as if we have not been thinking about this. If we build that greenlink interconnector and find out five or ten years later that it has not been designed to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: No. For example, the greenlink interconnector cannot possibly be done in the old UK merchant line way where it just comes into the Irish system without giving us flexibility to reduce curtailment and constraint. Its facility has to be under EirGrid's control if we are going to have the Danish and Dutch model to which Mr. Foley referred. We need that level of strategic thinking to indicate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I agree fully. I have been talking to people who have been involved in this in Europe and it is starting to happen in the North Sea and elsewhere. They deal in 5 GW chunks. While what I have said might sound outlandishly brave, big or ambitious, it is not. This is the way it will be built. What I hear in Brussels and Europe is that they are dying for us to come into the game. They are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: Did legislation in Westminster two weeks ago clear that hurdle?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: There are discussions taking place in Brussels today and it seems the EU is making it clear within the Brexit negotiations that consistent application of energy, climate and environmental rules, in particular in relation to the all-island electricity market, will be a sine qua nonof any backstop arrangement or regulatory alignment in a review. Does EirGrid see that creating any obstacles?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Eamon Ryan: I heard an engineer saying recently that we will not be able to do what is needed if we try to do it on a 26-county basis. We need to work this on an all-island basis.