Results 1-20 of 39 for esb speaker:Clare Daly

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: .... The problem with that is that this project was initiated in 2010. In 2015, after a few years of delay, planning permission was granted. There were certain delays due to fire safety and ESB issues but these issues were overcome more than two years ago. The project was expected to go to tender then and it was expected that work would begin shortly thereafter. A whole year and a half...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety (5 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: 296. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a company (details supplied) has alerted the Health and Safety Authority to seven deficiencies in the safety procedures of the ESB; if the authority has directed the ESB to rectify the identified deficiencies; and the timescale for rectification outlined by the HSA to the ESB. [5588/19]

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: ...society. It is a far cry from the days when we paid for expertise. People have talked a lot about the 1950s and 1960s. Let us talk about the 1930s, when electricity was brought to Ireland. When the ESB embarked on a process of rural electrification in the 1930s it hired expertise from the German engineering company Siemens. It did not give ownership of the ESB to the Germans. It...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: ...Shannon for a focal point for regional development, rather than what it is now, namely, a US military air base with nothing. We had the electrification of the country, for which the semi-State ESB linked up with Siemens in Germany. They were so visionary that the talk was of people being fried in their beds, such was the electrical output that was envisaged. Look where that got us. Look...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Usage (18 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 232. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has satisfied himself that the ESB is in compliance with EU Directive 2004/ 22/EC and CER/13/281 (details supplied) in view of information that emerged at the end of December 2016 that 27,000 meters maintained by the ESB contained a fault thought to be caused by deterioration in one of the components which causes...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation (12 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: ...Energy Authority of Ireland grant funding, have demonstrated proof of concept, are at TRL level 2-3 and consider whether the Government should buy the useful IP of these devices and direct the ESB to develop the most promising TRL level suitable for deployment at Westwave site. [10230/15]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: -----employ them and then go for it because the private sector will not do it. We need a little bit of the vision that we had when the ESB was set up all those years ago. There are engineers and we need to get many more involved. We need to do that, and not to waste our time on the likes of fracking or nuclear energy.

Other Questions: Energy Policy (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: ...big companies such as Pelamis, Wavebob, Oceanlink, and Aquamarine have gone into receivership. Private industry is not capable of developing this potential. It needs to be brought in under the ESB, perhaps, or another area, to look at how we can harness what could be one of the most exciting international developments in renewable energy off our coast.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Service Obligation Levy Application (14 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: 887. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if water services charges will be subject to the public service obligation, similar to ESB and gas. [49611/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Strategy for Renewable Energy (11 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the supports provided through REFIT or otherwise by his Department, the Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland and ESB to small scale hydro-microgeneration; and the supports provided through REFIT or otherwise to persons who install small-scale wind turbines including those turbines not requiring planning...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (4 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: ...jobs for Irish workers, would be to purchase the useful intellectual property inherent in the various technologies, employ whatever proven expertise exists in these companies and direct the ESB to lead a development programme targeting the deployment of Irish wave energy conversion megawatt size devices offshore Ireland within ten years. [46598/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Projects (23 Oct 2014)

Clare Daly: ...the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied to leave the development of the best wave energy resource in Europe to the private sector or if will he require the ESB to direct resources to developing the wave energy resource to provide renewable energy and jobs for Irish workers. [40171/14]

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: ...must be taken into account that many pension schemes have not been paying consumer price index hikes in their pension provision over the past number of years. Many of the big schemes do not provide for this. For example, the ESB, the banks, the airport schemes and so on have frozen pensions for their employees, although there is some relief in that regard currently. Therefore, de facto,...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: .... In some of the discussions ongoing in regard to defined benefit schemes, compensation funds are being considered by employers and some moneys are being invested in these. We saw this in the case of the ESB and similarly in the IASS. However, these contributions are not legislated for in the Bill. They need to be legislated for to provide security and to ensure the onus is put on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: ...with our national forestry targets; the reason public forests are being cleared to be replaced with concrete and steel for private wind energy companies; the reason Coillte is unable to supply the ESB with quality wooden poles to satisfy an extremely lucrative domestic market; and his plans for same. [54626/13]

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: I wish to make a couple of brief points. The ESB scheme was always a defined benefit scheme. The IASS scheme was also a defined benefit scheme, but that did not prevent ten years of argument as efforts were made to undermine the benefits to the members of that scheme. The measures undertaken by the company were the subject of years of adjudication in front of the Pensions Board. The...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: ...we are all trying to do the same thing, the Minister must return with something much firmer to address it. Decisions to take money are being made by companies which are healthy companies. The ESB is one example. It was quite clear it could have stepped up to the mark. Thankfully, it has now decided to do that, but the country was at a standstill in anticipation of whether it would be...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: ...State pension as the major component of their income. The majority of elderly people in Ireland have relatively modest pension pots. They should be protected across the board. Organisations such as the ESB and the Irish aviation pension fund have schemes with up to 30,000 members. People had a reasonable expectation of a decent retirement and they are entitled to it. The measures...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: ...will judge him accordingly. There will be nowhere to hide. That is an important lesson, because there are many people who disagree with the Government's agenda. Workers are organising in the ESB to save their pensions, junior doctors are forced to take action, young people are organising around the We're Not Leaving youth campaign, and there is an electorate that is determined to deal...

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: The Minister is probably aware that yesterday there was a briefing in the House by the ESB group of unions. They represent 13,000 workers whose pension scheme is being unilaterally changed, from a defined benefit to a defined contribution scheme, along with serious funding problems whose cost is being transferred solely on to the shoulders of those workers. These people are about to join...