John Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

The SEM committee is being established under the provisions of the Bill and the corresponding Northern Ireland order in Council to take regulatory decisions with regard to the new single wholesale market on behalf of the CER in the South and the NIAUR in the North. The function of the SEM committee is to take decisions in the best interests of the market, thereby establishing and operating a competitive wholesale market on an all-island basis. To take specific cognisance of the interests of the commission would be contrary to an all-island decision-making process set out in the legislation, both North and South. Therefore, the amendment cannot be accepted.

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