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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: Are we under-reaching in respect of our targets with regard to solar energy? If I understand this correctly we have a 20% target. Considering the point I was making earlier on, there are very few planning issues with solar in comparison with those that one gets with wind, for obvious reasons. Wind is much more obtrusive and there can be all sorts of issues around visual amenity. The very...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: Returning to my very first question, we can have all of the grant schemes and all of the incentives that one can put in place but the real incentive is going to be the ability to sell back excess electricity and to get a fair return. We do not know for sure yet what that return will even be. Does Dr. Upton have any sense of what he might expect because we are quoting potential income...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: That is the mooted payment but is that confirmed yet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: What are the electricity companies currently paying per unit for alternative sources of power on a fossil fuel basis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: These companies then are getting good value from the solar power providers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: I am talking here about the idea of electricity providers who are buying the electricity. Is it true to say that they are getting good value?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: I understand that but what are the electricity companies paying for the electricity that they are purchasing and passing on then to the consumer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: I presume that it is more than 13.5 cent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: That is okay. Addressing the Chairman, we mentioned earlier on writing to various Ministers and I am aware that we have a great deal of work on the programme but there are merits in this committee considering the compiling of a report on this issue because there are so many potential benefits from it for the sector in which we have an interest. This issue crosses a number of Departments...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Solar Energy and the Agricultural Industry: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Matt Carthy: I am finished now and I thank our guests again.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Matt Carthy: I welcome our guests. We have spoken before about direct provision and responsibility for that has moved to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. Will Ms McPhillips comment on or explain why she believes it the case that the responsible Department has now determined so many direct provision contracts to be non-compliant? I understand these are contracts...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Matt Carthy: This is in respect of contracts that the Department of Justice signed and another Department has now subsequently determined them to be non-compliant. Has the Department of Justice examined what it may have done wrong in that respect?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Matt Carthy: The Department concluded the contracts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Matt Carthy: That has now been determined by another Department to be non-compliant. Will the Department of Justice evaluate what it may have done wrong?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Matt Carthy: The Department of Justice concluded direct provision contracts. Responsibility for direct provision has now been passed to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. That Department has determined that €91 million of those contracts signed off by the Department of Justice were non-compliant. Who is going to be answerable in respect of those contracts?...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Matt Carthy: If Ms McPhillips could do that, it would be useful. I am not sure if Ms McCaffrey or Ms McPhillips could answer questions about service contracts with LMC Facilities Management, a company with offices in Dublin and Tipperary. I understand that some previous deals with that company resulted in an external investigation. Will the witnesses indicate if that investigation is ongoing?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Matt Carthy: All I asked is if the external investigation ongoing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Matt Carthy: A new contract worth €5.6 million was signed in July 2020. It has since been found to be non-compliant. How did that happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Matt Carthy: And it was still non-compliant.