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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, but does Mr. O'Sullivan have them lined out for 2016, 2017 and 2018? Where will they be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: May I just establish something? Mr. O'Sullivan mentioned 2025.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are the 70 stations to be done by 2025? Is that what Mr. O'Sullivan is saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Hold on now and let us be clear on this. That is not a five-year or six-year plan. Unless I am very wrong, we are in 2015 at the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes, so it is not five years or six years, as was said earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Am I correct in saying most of the emphasis should be put on the bus and lorry fleet market? In some cities a certain number of cars can be handled, but with the best will in the world, if there were 70 cars in total, there would be at most two or three in a county and we would not have that number for another five to seven years. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: For example, if I have my Volkswagen Caddy in Galway which is 100 miles across from one end to the other, I am not going to drive 50 miles for a refill when I can buy diesel in the shop one mile down the road. Is it correct to say Gas Networks Ireland is going to target the fleets of lorries and buses that are travelling the country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is the conversion cost? For example, if I have a 2012 truck and want to change it to a 560 Arctic Scania, what will the cost be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Going by what I heard earlier, I understand it will be possible to change over.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: People who have a second-hand truck will not throw out €17,000 for conversion if they get the same mileage from diesel and gas, unless there is an incentive. Does Mr. O'Sullivan agree that a business will not do this unless there is some incentive?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It was encouraging to hear Gas Networks Ireland was looking at an option for businesses in parts of the west and other parts of the country without a gas pipeline. I presume it is looking at the possibility of supplying them by truck.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it envisaging giving it to them at the same price as that paid by a business sitting on top of the pipe?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How was the price of 79 cent set?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Can something be done to facilitate those businesses which are not fortunate enough to have a gas pipeline beside them? Could something be done to ensure the price is approximately the same, whether one is next to the pipe or 20 or 50 miles away from it? Could a better deal be done to make sure this is facilitated? From what I understand, there is now a middleman to haul the gas supplies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is not the case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am aware of factories in towns where there are gas pipelines and in other towns where it has to be delivered by lorries. I am aware of one company with two factories in Ireland, one of which has it piped to it, while the other has to have it delivered. The difference in cost in running those two factories is €140,000. That is a disadvantage when one is trying to create jobs in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Have the witnesses spoken to people from the likes of Bus Éireann about the 100 new buses that are being bought? Have they been asked if 20 or 50 buses could be tried with CNG? If a haulier buys 16 trucks that use diesel instead of gas, what are the percentages? If the haulier has an extra truck going up and down the road because he stayed with diesel as opposed to using gas, unless...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Additional Uses of Natural Gas: Gas Networks Ireland (16 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If we want to get to a perfect world, it will cost us. It is the same with every other country.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: We are coming to the season of goodwill so I ask the Taoiseach to clarify two simple issues for me. Will the Red Cross scheme cover farmers that have lost fodder or whose slatted sheds have been damaged given they are classed, in the Taoiseach's own words, as a business?