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Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I move amendment No. 14: In page 5, line 16, to delete "a" and substitute "an". These are technical amendments on which we had an exchange of views on Committee Stage. I am informed this is a technical and grammatical change which would be appropriate but the Minister of State does not agree. When doctors differ, peculiar things often happen. I would like to hear the Minister of State's...

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Good.

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I move amendment No. 15: In page 5, line 19, to delete "a" where it secondly occurs and substitute "an".

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I move amendment No. 16: In page 5, line 24, after "Market" to insert "or the interests of the Commission". I moved this amendment on Committee Stage. It seeks to insert the words "or the interests of the Commission" with a view to strengthening the legislation. I considered this was necessary at the time and still consider it is appropriate to bring it forward on Report Stage. I await the...

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I move amendment No. 18: In page 5, line 45, after "time" where it secondly occurs to insert the following: ", subject to prior agreement between the relevant parties".

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I move amendment No. 21: In page 6, line 22, after "and (3)" to insert the following: "subject to the approval of the relevant Ministers in the relevant jurisdictions".

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I move amendment No. 22: In page 6, to delete line 35 and substitute "to be a minimum or maximum". I have tabled this amendment because it would add precision to the Bill in identifying precisely a minimum or maximum threshold. I await the Minister of State's response.

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I move amendment No. 23: In page 7, lines 5 and 6, to delete "Single Electricity Market operator" and substitute "SEM operator". This is a technical amendment to which I previously referred. I referred to a couple of other relevant and associated sections.

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I move amendment No. 26: In page 9, line 15, to delete "the" and substitute "this". We had quite a discussion on this amendment on Committee Stage. It seeks to introduce precision to the description. The term "The State" is used in the Bill. The amendment would substitute the word "the" for "this". When talking about another jurisdiction, it is appropriate to use the words "this State"...

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I move amendment No. 27: In page 9, line 16, to delete "appropriate" and substitute "appropriate,". I do not wish to delay the proceedings of the House other than to mention that this amendment is similar to another introduced by the Minister on Committee Stage. It concerns the introduction of a comma or apostrophe at the appropriate location. The Ceann Comhairle will be happy to learn that...

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I move amendment No. 28: In page 9, line 19, after "sale" to insert ", distribution". I will withdraw the amendment unless the Minister of State, in his wisdom and magnanimity, wants to take it on board.

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Nothing is necessary.

Biofuels (Blended Motor Fuels) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I propose to take ten minutes of my time and share the remainder with Deputy Naughten.

Biofuels (Blended Motor Fuels) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I am amazed by the response of the Government, the Minister and the Minister of State. They now cite European Union legislation as a means for not responding to what could become a national crisis. Instead of doing something about it with the power in their own hands, they decide to embark on a campaign of carbon trading, which will cost the Exchequer billions of euro before we are finished...

Biofuels (Blended Motor Fuels) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: When the Minister of State, the senior Minister and the Minister for Agriculture and Food were negotiating the demise of our sugar beet industry, I am amazed someone did not tell them that this is a golden opportunity to provide alternative energy here and meet two requirements, first, crop rotation——

Biofuels (Blended Motor Fuels) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: ——and, second, provide an alternative fuel but you did not think of that.

Biofuels (Blended Motor Fuels) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: It is much easier to address the Chair because the Members opposite are a distraction, and the Chair knows that, although he is not a man who is easily distracted.

Biofuels (Blended Motor Fuels) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I cannot understand the reason nobody came up with that idea. They would not have been allowed do that in any other country without somebody shouting "Halt". The notion that they are EU statute-barred is rubbish. They are Ministers representing this country on the Ministerial Council. What have they been doing there? I presume the Minister travelled to Brussels today to negotiate.

Biofuels (Blended Motor Fuels) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I do not know what he is doing there because if we do not stand up and be counted, nobody else will concede to us. My colleague, Deputy Eamon Ryan, made a very good point earlier. I am aware the proposals are to import cheap bio-fuels from other countries by flying them 8,000 or 9,000 miles, just as the Government is doing currently with the food industry. Soon we will be importing all of...

Biofuels (Blended Motor Fuels) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Feb 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Instead of developing the concept of bio-fuels and encouraging replacement industry for the agricultural sector which was displaced in terms of the sugar beet industry, the Government made a grand sweep — another €250 million for carbon trading. That is not a contribution. That does nothing for the environment or the economy. It merely postpones the day of reckoning, and that is what...