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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: I can let Senator Higgins back in the second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: Senator, to be fair-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: Will we start with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: On that, there have been issues in Portlaoise regarding a particular black spot there. Are there currently any other black spots in this country where planning is not going to be supported? Mr. Tarrant also mentioned 30 substations. How many of these substations are likely to enter planning in the short term?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: Does EirGrid want to comment on that point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: Do the witnesses from the ESB want to say anything on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: I thank Mr. Tarrant. I will ask a couple of questions from my perspective. Mr. Marley mentioned the situation in the Iberian Peninsula and the risk. Has EirGrid risk assessed that? There has been very little said in terms of what happened there and the risk of it happening here. Has EirGrid risk assessed that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: That will come from that report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: I thank Mr. Marley. With regard to what Deputy Heneghan raised then in terms of long duration battery storage, there is a kind of frustration with the punters generally that, effectively, renewable energy is being buried or lost and fossil is effectively making up the balance, which is how they would see it, because of that storage capacity. Where are we in terms of the storage capacity?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: The witnesses mentioned TAMS. Do they have any thoughts on it? Farmers cannot effectively feed their electricity off their solar panels. I know it is not an issue directly here but do the witnesses have any thoughts on that? It seems a bit unfair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: This is work on the grid before-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: We will do a second round. We are tight on time so we will do two minutes apiece. I remind witnesses that we are looking for barriers. What I am seeing based on the submissions and what I am hearing is that for ESB Networks, the main issue is resource constraints, which sounds like manpower. From EirGrid, I am hearing that access to land, public engagement and getting that right are the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: The Deputy asked a question about wave energy. Could we get the position on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: Okay.

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: A quick question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: I thank Mr. Marley. Our third speaker is Mr. Noel Cunniffe, chief executive officer of Wind Energy Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: Senator-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: Does EirGrid wish to comment on private wires?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: I will wrap the meeting up. Dr. Ryan mentioned EirGrid would forward information to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: If Dr. Ryan sends that information, we will distribute it to the committee. As witnesses will be aware, the committee proposes to publish all opening statements on the committee's website. Is that agreed? Agreed. On behalf of the committee I thank the witnesses for being here today and discussing these barriers with us. The meeting stands adjourned sine die.