Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate a matter of major national and local importance, namely, the failure of Shell to even vacate the compulsory acquisition orders for the existing Corrib gas route granted and facilitated by the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, and his predecessors in the Fianna Fáil Party, despite assurances given by Shell that the pipeline route was being altered and whether the Government will direct the company to cease construction of the Corrib gas refinery at Bellanaboy, which would result in an end to the Corrib gas protest and prepare the way for talks where other options to bring the gas to shore would be seriously considered and to ask the Minister, who has never visited Bellanaboy, to do so as soon as possible.

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