Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage
6:10 pm
Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source
On a point of clarification, the ESB was established 50 or 60 years ago because we needed electrification in rural parts of the country, but it now competes in the economic sphere, and under a ruling from Europe the company has been broken down similarly to Bord Gáis and other such companies. It will not be the same for Irish Water because the legislation explicitly states that it will remain in public ownership.
Sometimes debate does not end in agreement, and the Minister and a committee member will have different positions. I would like to move on. I ask Deputy Donnelly to speak on a different aspect of the issue because I do not want repetition.
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