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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: It was for the Minister. There has been some public comment that there was not an appropriate flow of information or that the Department was told all about this problem at some stage. I want to give the Minister an opportunity to clarify that chain of communication between both parties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: It is for Mr. Foley and the regulator. I ask them to concentrate on what happened regarding the non-delivery of the contracted capacity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I do not want to put Ms MacEvilly off, but it is important we clarify at the start whether there was a draft tender document that had pre-qualification criteria that required grid access and planning permission. Was that removed or did it not make it to the final tender document?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I do not want to keep interrupting Ms MacEvilly-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: -----but on the basis that this was a T-4 auction, there is a standard which states that a gas plant takes about seven years. When we go to tender, we expect people to have done at least three years' work prior to that, if we are going for a T-4 auction, which was the case in this instance. I am not an expert on this but the information that has been provided to me seems to suggest that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: As a regulator-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: This is an important point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: This is the crux. I do not want to tell the Chairman how to do his job but the purpose of this meeting today is to understand how we end up in a situation where there are potential blackouts. We have had many other discussions. They are really important but today is about what happens within our system. We have talked about the other European issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: Was planning of grid access part of that bid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: To be clear, the concerns are simple. They are that the bid process that the CRU undertook allowed a broad spectrum of actors into the bid, some of whom clearly bid low - take away the other elements that I have said - and who ended up winning and being unable to deliver. The purpose, at least my understanding of bids generally, of having a pre-qualification is that one removes the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: Does-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: In light of what happened does the Commission for Regulation of Utilities have concerns in relation to the bid system, notwithstanding the allegations I made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: Could the witness name it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: The witness has privilege in here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: It could be excluded the next time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Timmy Dooley: The question I had has been asked and answered. I thank everybody for their presentation and recognise the effort they make on all our behalf.

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I welcome the opportunity to discuss this issue as per the way the amendment is phrased. There are plenty of homeowners in County Clare who are affected by this. They rightly have a level of upset about some of the quarries, and in the case of Clare it is CRH, quite frankly. It is probably the biggest quarry and biggest aggregate company in western Europe, with...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2022)

Timmy Dooley: Just for clarification, if the State is going to spend €4 billion of taxpayers' money on this redress - and I suspect by the time it is completed it will be multiples of that - there is an encumbrance on the State to take action against those who, either through wilful neglect or abject failure, have allowed that to happen on their watch. It is to recover what the State will spend on...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2022)

Timmy Dooley: I, too, have concerns in respect of the section. In nearly any walk of life, if a person is to appeal a decision, that is usually done on the basis that an error was made in the decision or further clarification can be provided that will make it easier for a decision maker to understand what the issue was in the first instance or help the applicant to gain access to whatever scheme it may...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (13 Jul 2022)

Timmy Dooley: Like others, I welcome the Minister to the House. I thank him for his engagement with me on the concerns I raised about residents in Clare whose homes have suffered very serious damage due to the presence of pyrite in concrete blocks. From a very early stage, he visited some of the homeowners and met the group. As time went by, Clare was included in the scheme. Having spoken to the Clare...