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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I know I am going over time but that is the key point. Ms Kavanagh is saying that ESB Networks flagged when the CRU stated it was going to unwind it that it actually was not €50 million; it was a percentage. What due diligence had been carried out for the previous 12 years, given that this only came to attention when it was being unwound?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I do not want to labour the point. There are a couple of things I want to pick up again about that large energy subsidy. When the memo went to the CRU at the time asking for this permanent rebalancing of the networks, I understand it was €25.05 million for the transmission and €24.95 million for the distribution. How did the CRU notify the TSO and the DSO that it would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: What I am trying to get at is how is it that one operator decided to implement it as a flat rate and another, ESB Networks, decided to implement it as a percentage if a very detailed note was sent to them regarding implementation and the subsidy in respect of the rebalancing of the network tariffs? How did one it differ so much from the other one?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Is that detail included in the annual revenue decisions that are submitted by the DSO and the TSO to the CRU? Do they not go into that level of detail?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment contact the CRU regarding its decision to unwind this rebalancing. In its submission to the CRU, the Department outlined its concerned around the fact that the CRU decided to unwind this. It criticised the lack of consultation and the consultation period. However, it estimated the figure of the subsidy to large energy users that the CRU...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Is it around €70 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Where did the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment get the figure of €70 million contained in its submission?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pesticide Use (26 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit, an Seanadóir Hackett. I raise this issue on the back of reports we heard in the media of several raptors having been found poisoned in the midlands, particularly the white-tailed eagle found dead between Lough Ramar in County Cavan and Loch Sheelin in County Westmeath in November 2022. I have raised the matter of toxicology tests before in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pesticide Use (26 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Minister of State for her response. I share her concerns. I reiterate the message to people that poisoning is illegal but also that we are in a biodiversity crisis. It was declared a number of years ago and we have to protect as much of our wildlife as possible. There should be zero tolerance for anybody who is engaging in such activities. The figures for the pilot project...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I am having the morning from hell.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I definitely was not down to speak first. On the Order of Business this morning, I will raise a story that some Senators might have seen when it was first published in the Irish Independentin October. It is about how households have been subsidising large energy users, including data centres and pharmaceutical companies, for the last 12 years. We do not yet know the full figures because...

Seanad: Wind Energy: Statements (25 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Some of us are capable of multitasking.

Seanad: Wind Energy: Statements (25 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Wind Energy: Statements (25 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Wind Energy: Statements (25 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: Seriously, we are trying to carry out our business here. Some of us need to multitask whether Senator Garvey likes it or not.

Seanad: Wind Energy: Statements (25 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: The Senator is calling me out for using my phone when I am answering a very important message-----

Seanad: Wind Energy: Statements (25 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: -----of a personal nature.

Seanad: Wind Energy: Statements (25 Jan 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I am not missing the point. I am just saying she should just grow up and have a mature debate.