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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Does Mr. Bristow think it comes into the grey area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: There is a difference between Boeing and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Does ISIF exclude software developers in terms of software that may be used in their manufacture?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Ms Joyce would not exclude Boeing, which manufactures aircraft?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: I am not citing it in particular. I am saying that an aircraft manufacturer that makes commercial aircraft may also make military aircraft, which could be used in the delivery of cluster bombs. It is not excluded.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Are aircraft specifically excluded?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: The guidance mechanisms.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Somebody who delivers home heating oil is not covered by the intent of this Bill. They would be within the grey area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Ms Joyce cited them as a potential exclusion in her contribution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Ms Joyce does not exclude from her investments the aircraft that drop the cluster bombs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Mr. Bristow said that ISIF invests indirectly through Ireland in terms of the fund. I cannot recall the name of the fund but it is administered by one of the banks. Does Mr. Bristow know how many small and medium enterprises, SMEs, would be funded that he would perceive as being fossil fuel companies as defined by this Bill?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: I have a final question. Mr. Bristow said that the Bill as currently worded could be interpreted as limiting ISIF's ability to invest in a wide range of sectors including SMEs, ICT and health care, and infrastructure. Could Mr. Bristow give examples of how ICT and health care could be excluded from that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: What Ms Joyce is saying is that a hospital that has a back-up generator is actually processing fossil fuels by the action of turning it on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: That would be-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: The definition of a fossil fuel company does not state "consumes fossil fuels".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Is the witness saying that someone with a data storage facility would or could be excluded on the basis of the fact that they have a connection to the electricity grid? That would be as per the interpretation of the definition of fossil fuel companies in this Bill.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: I congratulate the Minister of State on his appointment. I am somewhat confused. The Minister of State is suggesting that ISIF is doing all this anyway and so there is no need for legislation. By the same token, he is suggesting the legislation will have no impact on what ISIF is doing already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: Earlier, the Minister of State cited the example of a small company involved in geological survey and how it has no connection to the fossil fuel industry and employs 12 people. How would such a company be affected by it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion (27 Jun 2017)
Thomas Pringle: With respect, in his example earlier, the Minister of State cited no involvement. He said the company had no involvement in fossil fuel companies.