Results 1,181-1,200 of 28,190 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: That is per annum.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: No, it will not.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: We will.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: The Government has been in power for six months. I have had more engagement with the CRU in the past six months than may have happened in the previous five years. We have resourced it. It is a professional organisation. Has it been before the committee?
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: It is an independent regulator. We have to remember that. Having said that, PR6 is going to be critical. It could deliver anything up to €18 billion in investment in our grid. The national development plan, NDP, when concluded, will have further investment, should we get agreement there. We need to make our grid resilient. We need to expand it both from a generation and an energy...
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy read it.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: All of which are very good.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: I am delighted the Deputy has raised this. They are things that we are doing.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: Absolutely, depending on which provider you are with.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: The percentage I got in relation to switching-----
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: I will conclude on this. The number of switchers is lower than 10%. That is the last-----
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: Níl ainm an Teachta Heneghan ar an mBille.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: The Chair is allowing some latitude that the Deputy should welcome.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: If we use the North-South interconnector project as an example, there are some parts of our grid, such as the east-west interconnector from Wales into Rush and beyond through north Dublin, are underground. As we get into the higher kV cables, it is next to near impossible, depending on the typography of the area, to underground them. We have done three independent reviews of the North-South...
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: Curtailment is a big issue, as are dispatch down rates. That is why grid expansion and investment are critical. Storage is important too, especially for renewables, as is making our grid smarter. These are not just things we would like to see. These are things that can be done but will require substantial investment to do them. Battery storage technologies are improving but facilities...
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: Which one?
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: Is this HVO in relation to home heating oil?
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: We are looking at that, not necessarily by way of the budget, but for 2026. We got the renewable heat obligation, RHO, memo approved at Cabinet just yesterday. I expect that will enable us to look at the mix within home heating oil, in particular, and fossil, and when we start to blend there, what rate of blend it will be, especially in relation to the multiplier around anaerobic digestion,...
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: I need to get the RHO Bill passed. We have got approval at Cabinet for that. It is something we will advance in the autumn of this year, but we need a technical regulations information system, TRIS, notification. That has to go to the Commission before it can go to the Dáil. There are specific reasons for that around the price we will pay for indigenous input to AD and biomethane...
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Darragh O'Brien: I know what you mean.