Results 38,641-38,660 of 40,897 for speaker:Simon Coveney
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the initiatives he plans to take to encourage mutable providers of electric transport charging infrastructure to facilitate competing solutions and implementation; the progress that has been made on setting up new memorandums of understanding with car manufactures in the same way that has been done with a...
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: I support what the Minister is trying to do in terms of making the transition from combustion engine cars to electric transport and mainstreaming that technology, and that mindset, to ensure people realise we can have normal family cars that are comfortable, powerful and safe but which are driven on batteries on the Irish electricity grid rather than by imported fossil fuels. I question the...
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: I hope the Minister will accept that I would welcome new memoranda of understanding with companies like Mitsubishi and, I hope, many others. My main concern is regarding charging infrastructure. The Minister said there is no obstacle to other potential operators of charging infrastructure as long as they all abide by the requirement for standard plugs and so on. That is obvious. We must...
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: What about a global tender to invite expressions of interest?
- Alternative Energy Projects. (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: There is a huge opportunity being lost here.
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: We are back to electric transport again. I refer to the Minister's target for 2020. He plans to have approximately 200,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2020, some 10% of the car transport fleet. Will the Minister outline to the House how he envisages the ramping up of the sales figures of electric vehicles between now and 2020? The date is ten years away. The Minister has already...
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: Denmark and Britain are there also.
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: Its numbers are miles greater than ours.
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: The Minister might make the buses electric and that would solve both problems.
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: They exist already.
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: Question No. 51 specifically asked what else the Minister can do in this regard, outside of providing capital grant aid for the purchase of electric vehicles. Has he considered the fleets of cars that are available to State-owned companies? The use of such cars would be an ambitious way of increasing the use of electric transport. An Post's delivery systems are very predictable,...
- Electric Vehicles. (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: Is that happening?
- Written Answers — Health Service Allowances: Health Service Allowances (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of domiciliary care allowance that were rejected in 2008; the number of appeals in 2008; the number of appeals that were overturned in 2008 on a county basis. [16766/10]
- Written Answers — Health Service Allowances: Health Service Allowances (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of domiciliary care allowance that were rejected in 2007; the number of appeals in 2007; the number of appeals that were overturned in 2007 on a county basis. [16767/10]
- Written Answers — Health Service Allowances: Health Service Allowances (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of domiciliary care allowance that were rejected in 2006; the number of appeals in 2006; the number of appeals that were overturned in 2006 on a county basis. [16768/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: Question 301: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of cases of domiciliary care allowance that have been rejected in the first quarter of 2010; the number of appeals in the first quarter of 2010; the number of appeals that were overturned in the first quarter of 2010 on a county basis. [16764/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: Question 302: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of cases of domiciliary care allowance that were rejected in 2009; the number of appeals in 2009; the number of appeals that were overturned in 2009 on a county basis. [16765/10]
- Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (22 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: Question 19: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to assist local authorities to recover outstanding development levies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16028/10]
- Energy (Biofuel Obligation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: I welcome the Bill before the House. I know that a constructive debate took place on this legislation in the Seanad and Fine Gael Senators felt they were listened to in that regard, which is important. Some of the Independent Senators were also involved in that debate, including Senator O'Toole. The legislation is necessary for the reasons we discussed here last night, including energy...
- Energy (Biofuel Obligation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Apr 2010)
Simon Coveney: We strongly advocate the introduction of this measure. At present, we have a pretty scandalous rip-off of consumers. Every consumer and business in the country pays a levy on electricity bills, which is calculated by the cost of carbon emitted into the sky during the generation of that electricity. However, the generators themselves are being given free carbon allowances until the end of...