Results 221-240 of 2,691 for speaker:Tim Lombard
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: I thank the witnesses for attending. I would like to home in on a few things. The first is that, in the presentation, they referred to rebuilding trust and confidence in the State to aid forestry because they are at a low rate. In other words, we have a significant issue with confidence in the sector. As they stated, it is an issue with trying to increase our targets and where we are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: The potential for bringing those 20,000 acres back into the system will have a significant impact for society in future. The real question is about changes that are required. What are the witnesses' requests to the Minister? Will they go through the major changes to the scheme that are required so that confidence can be built? I have a second question about the witnesses' plantations. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Fire hazard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: I was just going to ask if applicants can get it. They cannot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: I welcome the witnesses from the ESB Networks, Mr. John Emerson, Mr. Alan Rossiter and Mr. Nicholas Tarrant. I will go through the statutory process of reading out a note on privilege. Witnesses giving evidence within the parliamentary precincts are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence given to the committee. This means that witnesses have a full defence in any...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: I have a question on the ESB's significant target for 2030. At the moment, it is at 6,400 MW and the target is 17,000 MW. How confident is ESB as an organisation that it will reach that significant target by 2030?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: At the moment, the ESB is producing 6,400 MW, of which 4,900 MW is coming from wind and 1,100 MW from solar. If it reaches the 2030 target of 17,000 MW, how does it see that split developing between wind and solar?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Is that onshore or offshore wind?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Is offshore wind under the remit of ESB Networks? Where does it fall?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: We like making it complicated, anyway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Does the ESB put it onshore? Does it do the underwater work or who does that? Is it EirGrid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Where does the interconnector fit into the jigsaw? There has been talk about the interconnector between my part of the world and France. That is an important loop in closing the circuit to ensure we have connectivity to the Continent. Where does that fit into the jigsaw?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Regarding the grid itself, am I right in saying that it is an all-Ireland network when it comes to energy products? We have connectivity North and South and there are no boundaries or barriers in place. Mr. Tarrant might elaborate on where our network is, the co-operation between North and South and where ESB Networks fits into that equation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Mr. Tarrant mentioned biomass in his statement. I was a bit surprised to hear it mentioned, to be quite honest. I thought it would fall under a different heading. Will he elaborate on the ESB's involvement in biomass projects? Other projects, including biomass and waste energy, are going to account for 200 MW of energy. Where does the biomass element fall in ESB Networks? Where does the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: I expect the majority of those plants will feed into the gas network rather than going for the generation option and connecting them to the grid. Is Mr. Tarrant expecting some of those to opt for the generation option? Has he any intelligence in that regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: I will ask about the mini-generation applications that have been made. Mr. Tarrant's presentation goes into detail. I will ask about those waiting for customer installation. The table in the submission suggests there are 976 such applications. If I am wrong, please correct me. Mr. Tarrant might give an indication in respect of the timeline for those applications and how long it will take...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Does Senator Paul Daly wish to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: We will have to wait until Deputy Mythen returns. He is the man who proposed that ESB Networks representatives should attend the meeting. Voting has finished in the Dáil. I will suspend the meeting briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: We have called the witnesses before the committee to discuss renewable energy. That is slightly outside the topic. If Mr. Tarrant does not want to answer that is totally appropriate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Agricultural Land for Renewable Energy: ESB Networks (12 Jun 2024)
Tim Lombard: Just to give the witness some guidance, that is slightly outside the remit of the questions. It is totally up to himself.