Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I am somewhat alarmed by the Minister of State's statement to the effect that it was not NORA's role to control quality. We might wake up one morning in the future and find ourselves in a serious situation, with 2 million litres of poor quality material which cannot be disposed of and will be of no benefit to anybody. The Minister should consider introducing regulations or statutory instruments to deal with such a situation. If he does not, the purpose of the Bill will be undermined. Without it, the lowest common denominator will apply and, if one supplier gets away with supplying poor quality fuel from the reserve, they all will. We could have followed the Minister of State and waited to submit more amendments on Report Stage but it does not work that way. We receive a continual stream of amendments at the last minute.

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