Results 61-80 of 10,763 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: I thank the witnesses for the presentation and echo the comments of others in thanking them for the really important work they do behind the scenes. I also want to add my voice to the recognition of the role of Eddie O'Connor in driving the vision around energy generation and clean and green energy generation in this country. He is a very significant loss to all of us. He was available to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: I might just cut to the chase. Who is responsible?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: It is also very expensive, by comparison.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: Would the witnesses accept that in order to look at the space beyond 2030, we need to show incentives? Quite frankly, we are competing with other countries for investment. The ESB lost an investment partner because it did not feel we were geared up in advance to do the work that was necessary. Should we not put greater emphasis on beyond 2030 now, recognising the massive potential into the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: The difficulty is that EirGrid waits to see where everybody else is going and misses the opportunity for the country to be first up, best dressed and, ultimately, capture the new potential investment that comes with being first to market. I recognise the direction in which things are going. It is a matter of 2032 or 2035. We will have lost to somebody else. We have been talking about this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: I call Senator Higgins, who is joining us online from her office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: I thank Senator Higgins. There are quite a few questions there and I will give Mr. Foley a bit of latitude to answer them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: Senator Higgins, I am going to have let this-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: I have given the Senator quite a bit of latitude and I want to hear Mr. Foley.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: Okay. Maybe Mr. Foley can go directly to that one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: I want to get an answer on plants, if I can, because Senator Higgins indicated she wants-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: I know, but I am also conscious of time. There are other people to bring in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: I have been very flexible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: We will just go to the issue of gas generation, which Senator Higgins raised as one of her most important points. If Mr. Foley could do that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: In essence, therefore, the CRU is not getting it right and is not delivering.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: I call Senator Boylan. I apologise that I provided latitude there. I will allow the Senator the same for sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: I will send the invoice later.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: Like others, I welcome the decision of the Supreme Court yesterday in the case of Johnny O'Meara and his family, who took what was a very difficult case for them, I am sure, Mr. O'Meara having lost his life partner and the mother of his three children. Unfortunately, the State challenged the case every step of the way and did so again in the Supreme Court at a time when we are preparing to...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)
Timmy Dooley: There are one or two or three Senators who will trot in here and make some outrageous comment and it is gone, and we do not get a chance to challenge it. I would therefore like an open and frank debate here in which those who clearly have a different view from me get an opportunity to debate it and to challenge the Minister on their 30-second sound bites.It gives all us of an opportunity to...