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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: There are roughly two.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Roughly that and roughly 24 engines. These are effectively jet engines, which have to have a transformer and fuel supply attached.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: They can switch to hydrogen and are likely to use distillate rather than gas, as I understand it. They are dual-fuel or multi-fuel.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It has to be, and that is why we have such tight timelines. If we do not start in the coming weeks, we will not be able to deliver in the autumn of next year, which is when we need to deliver.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The CRU has the chief responsibility but we work closely with it, as does EirGrid. We will continue to work with them on whatever refinements we need to make to ensure the projects are delivered. It will be a matter for the CRU.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: There is always a question mark. Deputy Bruton asked earlier whether one can be absolutely certain that projects cleared through an auction process will in the end be delivered. One cannot be. There can be a variety of measures. The emergency purchase and emergency procurement on their own will not be sufficient; we need to see the auctions deliver, along with further auctions to come,...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is urgent. In talking to various industry providers, one always asks about the position on the various projects and schemes. There has been a significant inflationary element, particularly concerning the price of steel, which would affect solar farms. Strangely, solar farms have a significant amount of steel. There has also been supply disruption because of the war in Ukraine. I am...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, in Tarbet, TB3 is at half capacity and TB4 is apparently not operational. There has been a significant reduction following the fire. One has to remember that Tarbert is a very old facility. It dates back to the 1960s, I believe. Plants such as Tarbert and Moneypoint, particularly in a market with a very significant renewables element, are not easily ramped up and down. Therefore,...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I understand that it is only future credits but I will have to check the final details for the Deputy.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I will.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I do not agree with the last point. There is no reduction in the incentive for people to reduce their energy use. There are other mechanisms in this regard. People are arguing for a cap on energy bills, which would, as we have seen in other countries, bring about an increase in the use of gas and energy overall. Our approach was specifically designed to be climate-proofed and-----

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: This is why I do stand up for a universal payment. I also stand up for targeted supports, and this is why the social welfare provisions I mentioned are critical. I do not believe, however, that they on their own would provide a sufficient response. The scale of the price increases has put people right across society in real difficulty. Often people may be outside the social welfare system...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: This goes back to what was said earlier. The MPRN is the only way to do this, if the payments are to be automatic and without the need for an application. As I said, once we start moving away from this approach, where payments would be made based on an application or screening, then we will be getting into a system that will be much more expensive. A certain amount of money might be saved...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Without straying, hopefully, too much from the subject in hand, regarding the resources to mitigate the effects of climate action, which includes active travel, we have provided an additional 230 or 240 staff. It took time for the local authorities to get them in place, but they are there now. In previous years, it was not possible for the monies allocated to be spent. This will no longer...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: My understanding is that those group schemes are provided for under the existing measure. Where a tenant has a difficulty in a group scheme or in a multi-unit development, there was a mechanism for them to go to the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, to ensure that their landlord was allocating. Our evidence from the first application of this energy credit was that it got to 99.6% of...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We need to ensure that our auction system delivers. It will deliver. We are seeing a solar revolution happening. The companies are seeing a fivefold increase in demand. It is an absolute explosion that will go further. From talking to energy companies, I hear that battery storage technology is evolving. The deployment of that will go way beyond what previously might have been expected....

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We will need to continue to monitor Covid as the Minister for Health said during the week. What the Deputy said is true; buses are starting to fill up. The numbers using public transport are rising significantly on the back of the end of the Covid pandemic, but also as a result of lower fares. Many bus services are not providing the reliable services that we expect. It is the role of the...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It will be over the next year. However, as I said, work needs to be done to decide the rates that will apply and much will depend on what the energy prices are. There is a real complexity with the inframarginal pricing. It is clear that the solidarity contribution will only in effect really apply to one company, the Corrib gas field. With inframarginal it is complex because there are...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: When it comes to the solidarity contribution, there would be a single company. On the supplier, light and generator side, I would imagine 50 to 100. I am guessing on that. It is difficult to know but I would imagine it is of that order.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I set out some of the details in response to Deputy Devlin's questions. It is primarily staff. It may include the likes of stakeholder engagement and building evidence of research. One could bring in contracting expertise and so on but it is primarily, in my mind, their internal resource capability to be able to marshal other elements of the local authority. Indeed, to go back to the...