Results 41-53 of 53 for esb speaker:Darragh O'Brien

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (1 Oct 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 148 and 166 together. The protocol for the closure of sluice gates in Athone is determined by the ESB. If the sluice gates are closed in Athlone, Waterways Ireland will carry out an appropriate sluice operation in the Meelick area. Waterways Ireland as the Inland Navigation Authority, operates the sluices and weir boards in the Meelick area. There are 30...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Protection Areas (29 Sep 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Wildlife Service (NPWS) completed and published detailed site-specific conservation objectives for the Gearagh SAC (000108) in September 2016.  A management plan scoping exercise was undertaken by ESB International on behalf of the ESB (who are the main landowner) in 2016/2017. The NPWS took part in the stakeholder group that contributed to the report produced as a result of that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (23 Sep 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...followed on from the judgment in case C-215/06. These judgments will be complied with when the Derrybrien Wind Farm, which is owned and operated by a subsidiary of the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), is subjected to a retrospective Environmental Impact Assessment - otherwise known as substitute consent. On 9 June 2020, Galway County Council issued a notice to the subsidiary of ESB,...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: ...to call in the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. This is not satisfactory. In this instance a company is being set up which the Government has described as the biggest State company to be set up since the ESB. While at this stage the ESB is not covered by the Comptroller and Auditor General I make the point that Irish Water is a new company with all the teething issues, set-up costs and...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: I am glad to hear that. I have listened to Senators Ó Domhnaill and Mary Ann O'Brien. Senator Mullen said yesterday was a momentous day. He made a comparison with the setting up of the ESB, which was crazy and off the chart.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: ...has spoken about a referendum day. What is more important than water? It is a source of life. Senator Mullins talked about this as being the most important day since the establishment of the ESB. What a load of nonsense and complete and utter rubbish. He does not believe that himself. He should have read his script before he came in here to read it out.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: ...contact with the Bahrain Rehabilitation and Anti-violence Organization, BRAVO, which is a group of Irish and Bahraini medics in Ireland. We should keep a very close eye on the situation there. The ESB announced that its profits for the first six months of this year have jumped by 165% to ¤230 million. This is the same company that last month announced an increase in the price of...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: ...the free allowance of water will be, who will pay for the meters and how they will be paid for. As a few people in Seabury, Malahide, said to me last night, we did not pay for a gas meter or an ESB meter, so why should we pay for a water meter?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: ...today - we will facilitate her - to clarify this position. If she wants to deny what the German Minister said, she should put it on the record. Is it the Government's view that Bord Gáis, the ESB and Aer Lingus are of strategic importance? Will the Leader confirm that in the original memorandum of understanding no figure or commitment was given to privatise any State assets? In Fine...

Seanad: Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Feb 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: ...not engage in any disconnections over the winter months. It was a clear statement and it was the correct thing to do. I would like an update on disconnections. Last week, representatives of the ESB and Airtricity who were interviewed on a drive time show referred to ongoing disconnections. I do not think anyone who is trying to pay should have his or her energy supply cut off. I would...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Darragh O'Brien: ...not listen every day to statements that the Government's hands are tied in regard to the sale of State assets; they are not. My party is opposed to the sale of strategic State assets such as the ESB, which we discussed yesterday. I will ask the Minister for Finance about this later.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the Minister to the House. Fianna Fáil is totally opposed to the sale of any element of the ESB. I assume the Minister's colleagues in the Labour Party are also opposed to it. The original Memorandum of Understanding did not refer to the sale of State assets to the tune of €2 billion, rather it asked for a review of State assets and possible privatisation of State owned assets....

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2011)

Darragh O'Brien: ...but it must be carefully considered in a much wider debate because the implications of selling some of these State assets, which are strategic, such as Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports, the ESB and Bord Gáis is akin to selling the television set to pay the ESB bills. I warn the Government against doing that and urge it to follow through on the commitments it made in the run up to the...