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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: We are getting to the nub of the issue. Mr. O’Loughlin persisted with his non-retention of that information and continued to raise the issues, which was the right thing to do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: How would he characterise the culture in the organisation when he started to take the matter to the next level? In other words, he contacted the Minister and he went down the protected disclosures route. Culturally, how was he treated then? I do not want to get into the naming of any individuals.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: When Mr. O'Loughlin reached a certain point with his disclosures, was there ever a point where the organisation offered or in some way extended an offer to him to leave the company?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: With respect to governance, there is one issue I am a little concerned about regarding that exit. Was there anything in particular in that agreement to which Mr. O'Loughlin felt he could not sign up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Mr. O'Loughlin was being asked to sign something that would have put a gagging clause on him from that point on regarding him communicating with the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment? Is that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Maybe Mr. O'Loughlin should not read it out verbatim but what I could ask-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I suggest that Mr. O'Loughlin provide the termination agreement to the committee in due course so that we can have a look at it to see if there is something in it, to which Mr. O'Loughlin was expected to sign up, that would have prevented him from communicating with the Minister in future on issues of safety concerning the ESB. This was not a line stating he would not contact the media,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: That is a very serious development. I suggest the committee seeks that document from Mr. O'Loughlin and we can look at it further. Mr. O'Loughlin has gone through all of this and the information is now public. We have had representatives of the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, before the committee and we will have representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Is there anything else Mr. O'Loughlin would like to add?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. Hayes and his colleagues for coming before the committee. I also thank him for his comprehensive overview. The issue which was the source of greatest concern from an environmental perspective was the ongoing leakage of oil. Mr. Hayes has reiterated that it is readily biodegradable, but there seems to have been a suggestion that there was some level of mineral oil in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Mr. Mulvaney is comfortable that it is absolutely biodegradable, certified and tested to the standard identified.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I assume the EPA will have a view on the matter when it completes its investigation. Does the ESB have an inventory of the SF6 gas it has in stock?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Will Ms Quane provide the committee with an inventory of the SF6 gas the ESB has in stock? If she does not have it with her, she can forward it afterwards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: That is what the gas is stored in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: It is known exactly and there is a full log.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: If the EPA were in contact by telephone tomorrow, Ms Quane has access to a database of information with full details of exactly how much SF6 there is, where it is located, how it is stored and all of that information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I am not talking so much about the equipment as about the gas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: To be clear, the ESB has absolute clarity concerning its inventory. It knows exactly how much of this gas it has in its ownership.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)
Timmy Dooley: That is a fair point and understandable. I do not want to hog all of the meeting. Mr. Hayes mentioned speaking up. That is important. He has had the benefit of hearing evidence that we received earlier. We do not want to talk about specifics in respect of any individuals. In the context of speaking up, however, in the case of someone leaving the company and having to sign certain...