Results 161-180 of 1,771 for speaker:Lynn Boylan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: -----but Mr. Foley told this committee on two occasions that this is normal growth. Yet, when he provided the data to back it up we saw that we are not normal. We are an outlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Does Mr. Foley not believe that economic growth can be decoupled from energy demand?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: The point is that other European countries that have growing economies have reduced their electricity demand and they did so as part of the agreement-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Mr. Foley is the one who made the connection. He told us we cannot have a reduction in demand in electricity because we are a prosperous economy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: No one is saying it is not wonderful that we have gone from when the country was on its knees to a growing economy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: We are having an adult conversation, but it was Mr. Foley who coupled the two.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: However, to feed the growth in demand we need temporary emergency generation, which is expensive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: EirGrid told the data centre lobby - I think the video is publicly available - that it was doing it to help its clients and customers to get projects built.
- Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House.
- Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I thank the witnesses. I have a number of questions but I would like to pick up on the issues in the review. I welcome that ESB Networks has apologised for the error. Are the Department and the CRU willing to make an apology? When this issue came into the public domain, we lodged FOI requests. In fairness to ESB Networks, it wrote to the regulator and asked whether the subvention was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: A briefing note for the Cabinet subcommittee pointed to the fact that this was going to be unpopular with the public as the subventions were being unwound. The analysis of the electricity bills at that time was that LEUs would see little or no difference in their bills, and some would see decreases of up to 20%. That was a Cabinet subcommittee so with that knowledge the Government still...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I understand there was a ministerial direction to the regulating.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: It is important-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: He is confirming that the decision and direction for this subvention came from the Department and not from the regulator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: Do you want me to ask the question, Acting Chair?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: We have some clarity in that in 2010 the CEO told the Oireachtas committee that it was categoric that this was a Government decision. I think we accept that this was a decision made by the Government and was given as an instruction to the regulator to implement. The key thing for me is what analysis was done by the Department or the regulator to warrant the introduction of the subvention,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Lynn Boylan: I want to know what independent analysis was carried out to verify what IBEC was saying about the energy bills of LEUs.