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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (1 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Fergus O'Dowd: 242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects to make a final decision on the ESB pensions increase request received in January; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4831/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (1 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Griffin: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged with ESB Networks in relation to seeking a more affordable cost of reconnecting a derelict or vacant home in the context of efforts being made to bring such properties back into use through initiatives such as Croí Cónaithe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4797/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Marian Harkin: ...and adherence to proper planning in our forests. We have planting beside power lines and under power lines, with sally trees toppling over and taking down the wires. There is complete chaos. ESB crews came from Scotland to assist at huge cost. I hear that some got lost in the forest trying to find power lines, and when they located them, the set-aside was overrun with briars and it was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...Large companies have made significant profits through the high-price period because of the war in Ukraine. That is why we introduced very significant supernormal taxes on them, windfall taxes. ESB, for example, has been particularly profitable. It is not all from the Irish market. It is very significantly profitable from the UK as well which allows us to maintain investment here as...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...of third-level learning throughout the country, and the speed with which those projects are happening, matches what the private sector can do. I look at what our semi-State organisations, such as ESB and Bord na Móna, are doing at the moment and they are a match for anything the private sector is doing. As somebody who has worked in both the private and public sectors, the complex...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

...for strategic network investments as well as access to sites for necessary site investigations. In addition, for onshore infrastructure, once consents are achieved, EirGrid hands the project over to ESB Networks, which will build the infrastructure. We recognise that 2030 is a milestone on the ultimate journey to a net zero energy system. In December, we and SONI, the System Operator...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...are assessed to ensure that payments are withheld in relation to low usage electricity accounts identified by the distribution system operator, to prevent the payment from being applied to vacant houses. ESB Networks identified accounts which consumed less than 150 kilowatt hours of electricity per quarter for four consecutive quarters between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023. Domestic...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (30 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 139 and 140 together. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) is responsible for overseeing the National Smart Metering Programme (NSMP), with ESB Networks (ESBN) delivering the electricity meter rollout on the ground. The first phase of the NSMP culminated in the activation of Smart Metering services in February 2021, which in turn enabled Energy...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Supply Board (30 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Eoin Ó Broin: 141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on the provision of consent for an increase to the pensions of retired ESB workers; if a timeframe is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3714/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Supply Board (30 Jan 2024) See 3 other results from this answer

Aindrias Moynihan: ...Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his engagement to date with the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform to progress requested pension increases by the ESB (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4170/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Electricity Supply Board (30 Jan 2024) See 3 other results from this answer

Eoin Ó Broin: 227. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the provision of consent for an increase to the pensions of retired ESB workers; if a timeframe is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3715/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Properties (30 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...timelines are subject to any technical issues arising during construction. There were a number of such issues that arose over the past few months relating to site conditions, remedial works, boundaries, ESB connections, etc. that delayed earlier forecasted dates of completion on sites included in the programme. In March 2023, in addition to the OPW Rapid build programme, Columb...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...are assessed to ensure that payments are withheld in relation to low usage electricity accounts identified by the distribution system operator, to prevent the payment from being applied to vacant houses. ESB Networks identified accounts which consumed less than 150 kilowatt hours of electricity per quarter for four consecutive quarters between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023. Domestic...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: North-South Interconnector (25 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...following the enactment of the Electricity Regulation Act, 1999 and subsequent legislation. The CRU is responsible for, inter alia, the economic regulation of the electricity system operators ESB Networks, distribution, and Eirgrid, transmission. The cost of building, safely operating and maintaining the electricity system is recovered by system operators through charges on customers,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (25 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has plans to assist EirGrid and the ESB in developing a stronger electricity grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3161/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (25 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Brian Leddin: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his Department's plans in addressing the challenges of fish spawning and migration on rivers with ESB run hydroelectric stations and dams; the Department's position on the new ESB Rivers Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3386/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Electricity Supply Board (25 Jan 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Réada Cronin: ...Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when his Department and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications will reach the necessary consent to pay the agreed pension increases to ESB beneficiaries, such consent notified to them as being required for payment and long awaited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3431/24]

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Micheál Carrigy: ...community which is without electricity for the fifth time in two and a half months because of trees falling on power lines. The landowner is waiting for a felling licence to cut these trees down and the ESB cannot do anything about it. Things need to move on or we will have the same problems again this year.