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Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: It is only the Dáil.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Has anyone asked Mr. David McWilliams where we will put the nuclear reactor?

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Will it be in Wexford?

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: He was in that Department before.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: It is a return to the hot seat.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The Ceann Comhairle often makes up legislation.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Deputy Cowley is a loyal Chair given that he has suffered at the hands of the Ceann Comhairle.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The Government did it.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: When did Wexford last win three in a row? It was during the First World War.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome a number of the key provisions of the Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. The amendments to the 1999 Act in Part 2 extending the functions of CER to the all-island market are important, if belated. Sections 4, 10, 11 and 12 relating to electrical safety and the regulation of electrical contractors serve functions relating to natural gas safety, the regulation of gas installers...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The latter Bill was intended to turn the ESB into a plc under the Companies Acts. We are all aware of the long timeframe in developing energy infrastructure, but surely the Government should not have taken almost ten years to reach the modest platform provided by this Bill. We learned recently that more than €1.2 million of taxpayers' money has been spent on commissioning a report by the...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: We were so burned and scorched by the Eircom experience — and Deputy Durkan will pose questions later this afternoon on that issue and the Babcock and Browne situation — that there is an almost visceral fear among the people we represent, who believe we should not allow our key electricity transmission, distribution and generation assets to become the playthings of venture capitalists....

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: He was with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Fisheries Protection. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide details of the recent adoption of the recommendations of the National Salmon Commission; what the quota reductions will be; what will happen to salmon stocks after 2006; the remit of the three-person independent group to examine the implications, especially the financial ones, of the new...

Fisheries Protection. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The scientific advice was released towards the end of January of this year and the narrow decision of the National Salmon Commission followed some weeks later. There is much confusion among fishermen, anglers and in fishing communities as to what will happen in 2007. The Minister of State stated the TAC for 2006 is 91,000, which is disappointing to many such as those in the Stopnow campaign....

Fisheries Protection. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The group will make a recommendation to the Minister of State which he will follow.

Offshore Exploration. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, told us last autumn that he was considering re-examining the licensing terms for our oil and gas reserves. We have not heard a word from him since. During the earlier discussion today, I thought we should do an audit of how much taxpayers' money the Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, has lost. I mentioned the voting machines and the climate levies. Perhaps we...

Offshore Exploration. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister of State was on the rigs. He saw the flows.

Telecommunications Services. (6 Apr 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Is it not true that when Deputy Noel Dempsey became Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, he stated during a visit to UCD that he wanted 600,000 lines by the end of 2006? He then changed his target. He is only halfway there. Every Deputy receives e-mails, or telephone calls in the case of people who do not have e-mail outside work, in respect of broadband. One such call I...