Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

——of all of the people who are the consumers and in the interests of competitiveness. However, we have what we have. I am quite satisfied that EirGrid as an organisation will act and control the transmission system in an independent fashion. They will do this in the best interests of the public and consumers and in the best interests of the economy and competitiveness. It is important to state in this debate that the ideological hang-up or the anticipation that somebody will get a big wad of money as a result of the transmission system being privatised, are both equally silly ways of looking at this.

Deputy Broughan referred to the number of amber alerts. This has nothing to do with the transmission system operator but has to do with the vertically integrated utility and its plant to which he referred, the availability of that plant——

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