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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Post Office Network (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the workings of the Post Office network business development group and when a report on its findings will be available. [23468/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Post Office Network (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: As this question, which seeks an update from the Minister on the workings of the Post Office network business development group and when its report will be available, was submitted prior to publication of the report this morning I am sure the Minister's response will focus more on the findings of the report than on when it will be available.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Post Office Network (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I look forward to reading the report in detail. I understand that all Departments were party to the Post Office network business development group, including and, perhaps primarily, the Department of Social Protection. I have received correspondence from various post offices, the most recent from the post office in beautiful Easkey, County Sligo, which is on the Atlantic coast. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: The point I made about the EU is that we have copious documentation about the wider energy issues, including the press for renewable energies and the policy of reducing CO2emissions output. Sometimes this can have a cost impact on consumers. We must protect those at risk of fuel poverty in all those discussions. I do not see the same emphasis on the cost poverty element of it. I would...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the focus there will be on tackling fuel poverty in the upcoming White Paper on energy. [23467/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: What focus will be placed on tackling fuel poverty in the upcoming White Paper on energy?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I thank the Minister. Those of us who are out meeting people know that, in very many circumstances, there are still people who face a choice between heating and eating. The financial supports for energy have not kept pace with the increasing costs of energy. We need to examine further the issues of retrofitting, solar energy panels on houses, building standards and planning controls. Will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I thank the Chairman. I hope the next time Deputy O'Donovan criticises me for taking too much time to pose my questions, he will be cognisant of the fact that I have just 13 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I welcome the representatives and thank them for appearing before the committee. The presentation was not what one would have assumed. The topic for discussion was the basis for putting the North-South interconnector underground but that was not the presentation which was a restatement of the need for a single energy market on the island. There are very few people who do not understand the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: The cost of the overhead line is €140 million. Of what is the balance made up? The witnesses' estimate was that there would be a 5% additional cost to consumers if the interconnector were undergrounded, and that there are technical limitations. Could those technical limitations and additional cost factors be addressed by a one-site two-converter station based some place on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Finally, does this have an impact on people who operate as microgenerators, who want to connect to the grid? It is not something that we encourage financially. However, we should be doing so, particularly in terms of renewable energy. Does this conversation have an impact on those of us who would like to see more emphasis on microgeneration?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I thank Mr. Blaney.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there has been any further development in restocking Irish rivers with eels, or if compensation will be made available to eel fishermen. [23142/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Exports (16 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there has been any move to renew talks on the export of renewable energy from Ireland to Britain. [23139/15]

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: It must have been about the early 2000s, long before I had any ambition or intention of coming to this place that I first heard in the news that Ireland was to have a post code system. I thought that made obvious sense. I certainly did not think, back then, that I would be standing here today and saying to the Minister that I will not be able to support this potentially good idea. I need...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 2:To insert the following after “under that Act”: “noting the deficiencies of the draft Order calls on the Government to amend No. 5 of the draft Order to read: - ‘the Commission shall, subject to section 6(6) of the Act, submit to the Taoiseach its final report in relation to its investigation no later than 31 October 2015.’; and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental Protection Agency (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I welcome the delegates from the EPA. Having said that, I do not think we should be here. This is a personal as well as a political issue for me. Senator Paschal Mooney lives close to the area most immediately threatened by fracking, but I practically live in it. I know the real fear people have as we discuss the matter coldly and scientifically. I am not a scientist or an engineer, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental Protection Agency (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: The presentation went on for eight and a half minutes and I am at least entitled to as much time as the presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental Protection Agency (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I am getting to the question. First, how can the EPA expect that reasonable people will treat the report that will emerge from this process eventually as independent when the project is being led by cheerleaders for the fracking industry? Please tell me more than they have signed an undertaking, because that does not answer the question. How can reasonable people be expected to believe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental Protection Agency (10 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: The first question I want answered is how does the EPA expect me or reasonable people to believe this will be an independent report, when the company leading on the research is a cheerleader for the fracking industry and the reason for its existence is to make sure that fracking takes place in Europe, the United States and wherever it can introduce it?