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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the ports for they work they are currently doing in highlighting this issue. We have all gotten caught up, to some extent, in the potential or bounty, as it were, particularly in the mid west, where there is lots of talk about the potential for the capture of offshore wind in the Atlantic, not just for the domestic but also for the international market. People are getting carried...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: There are very few things that get me riled up but one certainly is the notion that the GAA, as an entity, seems to think it owns the content that is produced by volunteers from the very start. The players are volunteers, the people training them are volunteers, the children who are supported by their families are volunteers, and they pay through the nose every step of the way. It is great...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I want to follow on from that point about the usage of smart meters. I get the issue of the protection of data. However, it should be possible - and maybe the CRU can explain to us from a legislative perspective if it is not - for the CRU under some programme or the suppliers, to be able to tell me the best tariff I should be on. I used to be able to do it with telecommunications companies...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: It should be an obligation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: The best way is to put the obligation on the suppliers. If third parties are brought in, we will be battling with it and it will become another legal wrangle. Where is that idea at right now? Has the CRU sent a request to the Department to bring forward a legislative response?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Is that something we should advance from a legislative perspective?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: The balancing point is the more competition, the better. I am conscious that when the ESB was unfurled from the all-embracing company that it was, the price of electricity was forced upwards in order to create a competitive environment and bring others in. I do not believe it has gone back down since. Recognising where we are, has the CRU looked at another model in terms of capping prices?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I have a final point. In the absence of competition is there a stick that, from a regulatory point of view-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: The committee could write to the Department, based on what we have heard from the CRU, and ask it to come forward with a response to the legislative challenge in this regard. That would be helpful. My next point relates to the general cost of electricity being based on the wholesale market. The CRU rightly put forward the principle of hedging, which has protected us from extremes on one...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I will raise two related points. On 8 April, a young man in his 40s dived into the River Liffey to save another. That was a fella called Jimmy Nicholl. He was a homeless man who had suffered drug addiction. He was a wonderful character. I knew him well. I met him nearly every week and we chatted on the streets. You had to understand what he had come through in the past couple of years...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Apr 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I want to follow on from the comments on my colleague, Senator Tom Clonan. In doing so, I suggest that at the earliest possible opportunity we arrange a debate on immigration and migration. If one follows social media, one will see there is little doubt that there is a very sinister campaign being waged by some clever individuals to create the impression in the minds of a sometimes...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (19 Apr 2023)

Timmy Dooley: You could not get enough of "Killinaskully".

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (19 Apr 2023)

Timmy Dooley: That is the point I am making.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (19 Apr 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome Ms Ní Raghallaigh and Dr. Mathews. I congratulate Ms Ní Raghallaigh on taking on the role as chairperson of RTÉ at a time it is pretty difficult to get people to take on those kinds of onerous positions given the criticism they come in for when they step forward. She deserves recognition and credit for taking on that role and, as others have said, bringing her very...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (19 Apr 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Back at you. To conclude on that, is the biggest challenge for the next three years just money or is it technological?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (19 Apr 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I conclude by offering my congratulations and best wishes to Kevin Bakhurst. I served on a committee he came before on many occasions. He demonstrated his abilities at that time and I am sure he will do so again. I thank Ms Ní Raghallaigh and the board for the work they do on behalf of the public service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome Mr. McGarry. Unlike some other appointees who come before various committees, he has had the experience of five years in post. Perhaps he will identify the greatest challenges he has faced over those five years and what he sees as the challenges for the forthcoming period. With regard to time, I note that Mr. McGarry listed his series of other interests and he identified other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Timmy Dooley: What does it do?