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Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: We could say that is fine, everything is rosy-----

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: -----and we might as well adjourn for the next two or three days. Why are we having a spring statement? There are many issues which need to be tackled. When I hear the Government self-congratulating itself, it makes me think the Government parties must have been over in Government buildings and seen the autumn statement by George Osborne ahead of the spring budget, had an "aha" moment,...

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: Policies Fine Gael opposed.

Other Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: The Minister referred to the Commission for Energy Regulation preparing a report on subsidies and so forth. When is the report likely to be published? What are the details of that?

Other Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: The Minister used it a few times today.

Other Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: We look forward to it.

Other Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the value for money of subsidies for wind energy on consumer energy bills; if these subsides will be continued, post 2017; the amount, on average, that wind subsidies contribute to consumer electricity bills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16192/15]

Other Questions: Renewable Energy Projects (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: I ask the Minister the value for money of subsidies for wind energy on consumer energy bills; if these subsidies will be continued post-2017; the amount, on average, that wind subsidies contribute to consumer electricity bills; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Other Questions: Post Office Network (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: I want to put this on the record of the House. I received a letter from the Ceann Comhairle today. I had put down a question to the Minister to provide an update on-----

Other Questions: Post Office Network (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: -----of recent discussions with the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection on letters sent to welfare recipients requesting them to switch collecting their payments from local post offices to having them paid directly into bank accounts. That letter is a source of concern to every single postmaster. I asked the question but I am at a loss as to why it cannot be allowed on the...

Other Questions: Post Office Network (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: Letters were sent out from the Department of Social Protection requesting people to switch their payments from the post office to the banks. Surely that undermines the post office network in a determined way. If there is a whole-of-government approach to maintain the post office network, how did this letter go out from a Department?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: When will this be submitted to the European Commission? The Minister gave a date of June 2015 at one stage for state aid approval but where is that now? This looks like a never-ending saga. The broadband plan was announced this time last year, before local and European elections, to great fanfare. It was to resolve issues but, to my mind, nothing has yet happened. When will this formally...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: I have followed the issue. When will this come before the European Commission? I know why it must go before the European Commission and that work is ongoing. In my previous comments I asked when it would come before the European Commission. Why was it not put in the April 2014 announcement that this would have to go before the European Commission? This is probably one of the most...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 4. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide the latest update on the Government’s application to the Commission for state aid approval of the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16437/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: My question asks the Minister for the latest update by the Government to the European Commission for state aid approval of the national broadband plan.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: According to the information presented by the chief executive of EirGrid to the committee last Tuesday, one ducting would be needed in the channel for grid west and grid south and all that is needed to underground the North-South interconnector is a second one. I asked him about the technical issues arising because for the last several years EirGrid has argued that it is not technically...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 1. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the latest EirGrid proposals on the North-South interconnector, Grid West and Grid South; if he supports putting cables underground in all projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16436/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: I ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the latest EirGrid proposals on the North-South interconnector, Grid West and Grid South. Does he support putting cables underground in all the projects? I ask him to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Electricity Transmission Network (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: The report that was published, as I understand it, has options for undergrounding and made clear that Grid West and Grid South can be undergrounded. Why can this not be done with the North-South interconnector? This has been a huge bone of contention, particularly in Cavan, Monaghan and Meath in recent years. Last week representatives from EirGrid appeared before the Joint Committee on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (28 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: 28. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps his Department is taking to meet the European Union target of 12% in renewable energy in the heat sector by 2020; the current percentage of renewable heat energy usage; the level of penalties the State faces at this level; the role biofuels can play to bridge the gap; and if he will make a statement on the...