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Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: ——the allocation of continental shelf rights is very important due to the potential oil reserves in the area. A deadline of May 2009 was set for the most recent round of talks between the four interested countries. An update on the talks would be most useful and I ask that the Minister come into the House to discuss this issue.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: With the difficulty we have in the State, both natural resources, gas and particularly oil, if they can be found and brought ashore, will be vital to the future of this country. In the circumstances we must intensify our research in this regard.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: Roscommon town.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: I ask the Leader, Senator Cassidy, to invite the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Mary Coughlan, to the House to discuss how an early warning system might be established in co-operation with employers and organisations such as IBEC and ICTU to identify employers who are considering redundancies but who have not yet made a formal or public decision on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: We should take equity stakes now in companies such as this because some of them will not survive. During very difficult periods in the 1980s we had Fóir Teoranta which invested in companies. There will be pain but in the future there will be gain. Some of those companies, such as Waterford Crystal, Dell, Ericsson and now Intel——

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: Through the Leader, I invite the Tánaiste——

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: I make a reasonable point, namely, to invite the Tánaiste to this House in order that we might have a discussion on this matter. When Ericsson announced job losses in Dublin it had not informed the Government in advance of a possible closure or loss of jobs. This is a gravely serious situation. I was formerly in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and I know its workings....

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: Why not take equity in companies that will provide and protect jobs and maintain the maximum number of jobs in the country?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: I call on the Leader to arrange an emergency debate today on energy and, in particular, electricity supply. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, should come to the House for the debate. I welcome in principle the Bord Gáis decision to supply electricity to the residential market. Heating and energy costs are a significant portion of a householder's budget at present. Since last night 3,000...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: ——and let it reduce its price by 10% as well.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: Otherwise, it will be a very unfair market. It is grossly unfair. On "Morning Ireland" this morning it got tremendous publicity. Every Member of the House will probably sign up for it by the weekend over the Internet or by telephone. That is the reality. The ESB has increased its workers' wages by 3.5% while its senior executives are getting approximately €650,000 per annum. There are...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: The point is the regulator has been assigned responsibility for it.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: I am calling on the regulator——

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: ——to take the handcuffs off the ESB to allow it reduce costs and to reduce the costs——

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: This matter requires an emergency debate. I do not see why we cannot have an emergency debate in this House. There is no point in having this debate on Tuesday or Wednesday next when approximately 100,000 suppliers will have joined up to Bord Gáis. Who will read the meters and who will maintain the power lines after a storm?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: The ESB.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: I put that question to the Leader. The question to the Leader is to ask him, in his position of Leader of this House, to invite the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources——

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: I wish to get the debate, that is the point.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: Remember that Bord na Móna supplies peat to the ESB.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Terry Leyden: If there is a debate.