Results 481-500 of 10,763 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Timmy Dooley: That is fine because it highlights issues. To some extent, this committee is a talking shop.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Timmy Dooley: However, what we say at the committee gets amplified and commented on. We can also make recommendations to the Department. We can bring others in and challenge them on issues so at least we take things further. As I have seen over the years, there is nothing to help and promote the taxi industry. Taxi drivers are individual licenceholders. There must be competition although there is not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Timmy Dooley: It is important that the committee makes a recommendation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I do not know whether any recommendation will be successful but we must make it in the context of public transport. We are reducing the cost of going on a bus. Nobody is expected to pay a fare on a bus commensurate with the cost of running the bus which is what we must consider. If one did then it would cost a lot more to travel even short distances and I presume it would cost €20...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome our guests and thank them for their presentations. My first question is for the Minister. Does he think he has been kept adequately informed by the CRU and EirGrid over the past 12 months regarding security of supply? Maybe he will share with us some of the requests he has received from both parties. Does he believe the Department has acted in a timely way in responding to that?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: It was for the Minister. There has been some public comment that there was not an appropriate flow of information or that the Department was told all about this problem at some stage. I want to give the Minister an opportunity to clarify that chain of communication between both parties.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: It is for Mr. Foley and the regulator. I ask them to concentrate on what happened regarding the non-delivery of the contracted capacity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I do not want to put Ms MacEvilly off, but it is important we clarify at the start whether there was a draft tender document that had pre-qualification criteria that required grid access and planning permission. Was that removed or did it not make it to the final tender document?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I do not want to keep interrupting Ms MacEvilly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: -----but on the basis that this was a T-4 auction, there is a standard which states that a gas plant takes about seven years. When we go to tender, we expect people to have done at least three years' work prior to that, if we are going for a T-4 auction, which was the case in this instance. I am not an expert on this but the information that has been provided to me seems to suggest that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: As a regulator-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: This is an important point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: This is the crux. I do not want to tell the Chairman how to do his job but the purpose of this meeting today is to understand how we end up in a situation where there are potential blackouts. We have had many other discussions. They are really important but today is about what happens within our system. We have talked about the other European issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Was planning of grid access part of that bid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: To be clear, the concerns are simple. They are that the bid process that the CRU undertook allowed a broad spectrum of actors into the bid, some of whom clearly bid low - take away the other elements that I have said - and who ended up winning and being unable to deliver. The purpose, at least my understanding of bids generally, of having a pre-qualification is that one removes the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Does-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: In light of what happened does the Commission for Regulation of Utilities have concerns in relation to the bid system, notwithstanding the allegations I made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Could the witness name it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Timmy Dooley: The witness has privilege in here.