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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The BiFab yards in Fife are capable of producing this exact product.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: According to Mr. Fitzgerald, the Government is responsible for guiding and pressing for standards. Is it expected that there will be guidance in areas like procurement, life cycle costing, integrated quality criteria, social benefit and social considerations? That comes into these issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Does Mr. Fitzgerald believe legislators have a role in providing guidance in this regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I would like to ask the witnesses from the ISEA about public feed-in with regard to solar energy in public buildings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We have spoken about the tariff. I think we are a little bit away. We need to reconcile many issues relating to the tariffs and the feed-in. To what extent should we be intensifying our efforts to ensure public buildings are feeding into the grid, even if there is no financial benefit, while increasing the supply within the grid in terms of renewable energy? When I read the initial...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I would say that PPAs are an issue of particular concern. We have heard that planning is being bypassed to facilitate access to land and public roads. I am a little concerned about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: A lot of solid points have been made about improved planning and moving to 2 MW. As I understand it, PPA contracts are private. We are looking to bypass the planning process to facilitate something that is not necessarily of public benefit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I ask the witnesses to clarify the position in respect of PPAs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am a little concerned about them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That would be very useful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Surely it should normally be possible to get a mechanism of consent for wires to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Is it bypassing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Will this be a project of common interest in the future?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I would like to make a final point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I understand that we will get a number of supplementary documents, one of which will relate to ammonia.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: How do we reach a point at which we are not in breach of our ammonia limits? We are in breach of them at present. Maybe we could get some supplementary information on that in written form. I continue to have some concerns in this regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Any written information on this model would be very useful.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Section 9 deals with the special assignee relief programme, SARP, an income tax relief for some of the highest earners in the State. It is a relief on salaries between €75,000 and €1 million. We know for a fact that some of those who benefit from the scheme have salaries of over €3 million. I recognise that they only get the special tax relief on that part of their...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is concerning that we do not have the 2018 figure when we are considering the budget for 2020. When it comes to smaller-ticket measures that come under the social protection budget, for example, we have to look at their exact impact and prove their benefit up, down and sideways if we want to see them extended or improved slightly. It is a cause for concern that a scheme that cost...