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- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
Sean Barrett: ...the debate. I hope the Green Paper is imminent and that we get it soon, because a number of factors are changing rapidly in this area and we do need the numbers. For instance, we subsidise the ESB to use peat and then we prosecute individuals down the country who dig up the same peat. The numbers will show that the use of peat to generate electricity makes no economic sense and we may...
- Seanad: Turf-cutting: Statements (19 Sep 2013)
Sean Barrett: ...the Dutch in realising there is an important function of bogs and that draining them out for burning purposes, as we had been doing, is not the best use of that wonderful part of our landscape. Peat was an emergency fuel during the Emergency and people such as the late Todd Andrews derived much kudos from the use of it. It is not an industry that has a long term future. All extraction...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)
Sean Barrett: .... In fact, the world's most profitable airline put in on St. Patrick's Day the world's largest international order for new aircraft this year. The leasing business is prosperous. When Guinness Peat Aviation, GPA, was in its hay day, it created many millionaires. This tax break is for highly profitable airlines to buy hangars in which to keep their aircraft. This section of the Bill...
- Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (14 Jun 2012)
Sean Barrett: ...the energy field who believe our energy costs - electricity and gas - are far too high and that stricter regulation of these sectors is necessary. There is a â¬40 million subsidy in the case of peat and the same in the case of wind energy. These sectors have captured their regulators and operate outside the realm of competition policy which we need so badly. There was an interesting...
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)
Sean Barrett: ...wave and tidal energy because they are not commercially viable. At present they are financed through a public service obligation payment which costs â¬118 million. Of this the direct subsidy to peat is â¬40 million, with â¬36.5 million going to renewable energy generation and the remainder accounted for by administration and capacity related expenditure. We are rigging the market in...