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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This committee is focused on an all-Ireland economy. There is a great opportunity for the State in wind energy etc. However, one of the dangers is that community interest or co-operation can be switched off if turbines are positioned too close to domestic homes. I believe the Mount Lucas turbines are 160 m tall, among the highest in the State at the moment. Does Bord na Móna have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I wish to contribute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I have waited patiently to ask the same question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Coillte has launched a fantastic project called the Nephin wilderness project. Coillte will re-wild 10,000 acres over a 15-year period. It is an opportunity to promote eco-tourism. How could Bord na Móna monetise such a project? The general community would probably be able to monetise it better. Can Bord na Móna undertake a similar project given that it has 80,000 ha?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Applications (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 270. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when her Department will complete a review of the case of a person (details supplied) who has sought access to the insolvency payment scheme. [22443/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 371. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual cost to the Exchequer of increasing the following public sector gross pay bands by 2.5%, 5%, 7.5% and 10%; €0 to €15,000, €15,001 to €25,000, €25,001 to €35,000. [21463/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 372. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual cost to the Exchequer if the first €17,500, €20,000, €25,000, €27,500, €30,000, €32,500, €35,000 of public sector gross pay was exempted from the pension related deduction on gross salaries of €0 to €25,000, €25,001 to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 373. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual cost to the Exchequer if the first €17,500, €20,000, €25,000, €27,500, €30,000, €32,500, €35,000 of whole time equivalent public sector gross pay were exempted from the pension related deduction on gross salaries of €0 to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Same-sex Marriage (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 538. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality following the passing of the marriage equality referendum, if she will confirm the earliest date by which same-sex couples will have civil marriage available to them; and if a same-sex couple is registered for a civil partnership to take place in August, if the couple's partnership will be automatically transferred to a civil marriage, in the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Projects (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 1128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual amount paid out in constraint payments to the hydro industry, as a result of letting wind onto the system over the past five years; and the amount for each hydro plant. [22215/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 1129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the National Strategic Environmental Assessment for Energy will be completed. [22216/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Generation (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 1130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide the figures for output of electricity onto the grid from the semi-State owned wind farm at Mount Lucas, County Offaly, to include the actual output, as opposed to the capacity. [22217/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Generation (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 1131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of wind turbines currently in the State; the current number applied for; the additional number needed to reach the Government's 40% generation from wind target; and if he will provide these figures both in turbine numbers, capacity output and real-time output predictions. [22218/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Generation (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 1132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of the land mass required to host the number of turbines it would take to meet the Government's target of 40% electricity generation from wind. [22219/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Generation (9 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 1133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has completed a hydro-geological study on the cumulative impact of the Government's proposal to produce 40% of our electricity from wind in view of the amount of concrete need for each turbine base, hard stand areas and associated road infrastructures required by turbines. [22220/15]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 2:In page 3, to delete lines 19 to 25 and substitute the following:“(c) by substituting the following definition for the definition of “retail credit firm”:“ ‘retail credit firm’ means a person prescribed for the purpose of paragraph (g) of other person who holds itself out as carrying on a business of, and whose business consists...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Why not regulate all of the mortgage providers at all levels?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand, but why would we not simply regulate? We have experience of deregulation in this State. Our banking inquiry, which is taking place in another committee room, is focusing on the fact that there was a policy trend towards deregulation and a lack of implementation of regulation which resulted in the crisis that happened for us as a society. I understand the Minister has...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I will give the Minister an example of a constituent of mine who had a loan with a particular bank. He offered to pay 30% of that loan in a negotiated fashion, but the bank refused that negotiated offer and sold the loan to another firm. That firm was not incorporated on the day the loan was sold, and he understands the loan was sold for 15% of its value, which was 15% less than the money...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Contract law has not offended the many people we have discussed so far in their interest. In the general mortgage sphere under the code of conduct, there are many mortgage holders who have had a disastrous experience. Let me give an example. A couple who are pensioners from my home town of Navan have a mortgage with one of the banks that are covered but had a disastrous experience over the...