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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I very much thank Mr. Fenlon and his colleagues for attending. The issue of the standing charge has come up quite a bit. I ask for a note to be sent to the committee on the calculation of that charge. I have received feedback, as have colleagues on the committee, regarding people who are extremely apprehensive about having no wriggle room in respect of that charge. It has increased over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Is there an approximate figure? Electric Ireland has set aside a certain amount, so it must know, or even have a guesstimate, of how many customers it is looking at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I have just a minute left. The difficulty during Covid was that people were still in receipt of money and, in the vast majority of cases, were still working. This is a cost-of-living crisis. People may be working but they do not have enough set aside to cover the cost of energy. That number may exceed what Electric Ireland earmarked for Covid. Mr. Fenlon made a point about individuals...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Electric Ireland is promoting that externally. It is promoting that to all customers. What is it doing for its existing customer base? Is it doing any direct mailing or targeting to inform the existing customer base?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the witnesses and thank them very much for their engagement this afternoon. I compliment the engagement that ESB Networks has with us in the Oireachtas through the company's Oireachtas team, which is very proactive and responsive to queries. That is appreciated. In the opening statement it was mentioned that ESB Networks plans, builds, maintains and operates the electricity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I apologise for interrupting, but is the last scheme to which Mr. Duignan referred a community-based scheme or does it relate to businesses and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Mr. Duignan might send on a note on those different schemes for the benefit of the committee. This is probably not in the ESB's remit and our guests might or might not be able to go into detail, but in light of recent events such as sabotage or attacks on energy systems and given the ESB is developing networks and protecting its own ones, has it reviewed its security? I am not asking our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Turning to substations, our guests mentioned earlier that 5 GW of renewable generation is connected to the electricity system and that during this year, between wind and solar, they expect that to increase to 5.4 GW. It may be EirGrid space but, in regard to the substations, is that the ESB's call for a development or proposals to go to EirGrid if it proposes that a new substation be built,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Our guests mentioned solar and wind energy. I am wondering whether for offshore there needs to be a connection with a new offshore scheme. I am not sure whether it is a matter of distribution or transmission, because it could be either. Whose call is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Cormac Devlin: On the smart metering programme, it seems the ESB has made a lot of progress, with 1 million meters supplied to the market. By the end of 2024, it hopes to have the vast majority of its customers on smart meters, quite an ambitious target given the volume of customers it has. Current events will lend themselves to people requesting them, as we saw in our previous session. What is the ESB...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Cormac Devlin: My final question relates to a very local issue but one that is local to all of us. It concerns lampposts throughout the country. Some of them are owned by the ESB, I understand, while others are owned by local authorities. Do not ask me how or why that happened but that is the case, according to a reply I received to a parliamentary question. How do we go about getting one of them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Cormac Devlin: It was a curveball. I could outline a stream of these lamppost numbers, but that will be for another day.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (29 Sep 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Deputy. Before I call the Minister of State, in fairness to the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, she is generally here for the Topical Issue debate herself, as Deputy Cahill knows.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (29 Sep 2022)

Cormac Devlin: That is a fair point.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Dealing with the cost-of-living crisis is the top priority in budget 2023. The Government introduced a very significant €11 billion package on Tuesday to support households and businesses. The budget will continue to invest in public services, particularly our education, health, childcare and housing services, while increasing social protection and pension rates, supporting...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome Mr. Reid and the officials. I thank them for coming in. I am not sure if this will be his final appearance before the Committee of Public Accounts, but I thank him for the information he provided and all the engagement we have had in the past couple of years, particularly during the pandemic. At the time, he gave significant time to this committee and other Oireachtas committees,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I appreciate that, but how long did it take for that process to start and the engagement to happen? We are talking months.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Mr. Fitzgerald for that. In terms of the children's medication and an assessment of need for each family, has that all been done as well as liaising with each of those 240 individuals?