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Broadcasting Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he intends for RTE to play a lead role in driving digital take-up here; if he has mandated RTE to begin a process of review and renewal to ensure, as the organisation itself has noted, that public service broadcasting will survive in the current competitive environment; his views on whether there is a need to...

Broadcasting Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister for his reply. In the context of his objectives for public service broadcasting and RTE, is he concerned that currently there seems to be an atmosphere of fear and loathing in Donnybrook, Dublin 4, as some of the newspapers have characterised it? There has been a night of the long knives and there is blood on the tracks. Is the Minister concerned that recent events in...

Broadcasting Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Will the equipment I mentioned need a licence? Will a computer linked to an LCD screen require a licence, for example?

Electricity Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if, in view of his recent comments that the ESB should not be broken up into smaller parts or atomised, he will publish the Deloitte & Touche report on the ESB that he commissioned and is in possession of; when the energy Green Paper will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26622/06]

Electricity Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: This is one of a series of reports the Opposition has been eagerly awaiting in recent months. Why did the Minister not publish the Deloitte & Touche report while the Dáil was sitting? He is creating a situation where he can pre-empt the discussion and lay down his policy and, because the House will not be in session, we are at an incredible disadvantage. The report has cost taxpayers...

Electricity Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I am not the Minister. I would love to be but I am not.

Electricity Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Does the Minister know what is happening?

Electricity Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: When?

Electricity Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: In the first week in August.

Electricity Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: If the Minister tells me I will be around.

Electricity Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister will do it that week.

Electricity Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I will go in July.

Electricity Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Before the Dáil rises.

Electricity Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I will do so if the Minister follows Labour Party policy.

Electricity Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Is the Minister agreeing with the Labour Party?

Electricity Sector. (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I warmly welcome what the Minister has said and that the company will not be privatised or atomised especially considering what my colleague said about Eircom. I ask about rising electricity costs. Will the Minister consider giving CER some sort of strong consumer mandate? To put it the other way around will the Minister give consumers a role in CER either in terms of a consumer panel as...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (5 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will report on the recent establishment of the Irish Energy Council; the amount of money which will be designated to the IEC for its establishment and maintenance; the way Sustainable Energy Ireland will be affected by the new institute; if the level of funding to SEI's will be reduced; if the Irish...

Disposal of Shares in Aer Lingus Group plc: Motion. (6 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: For the horse races.

Disposal of Shares in Aer Lingus Group plc: Motion. (6 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister might have a tent there.

Disposal of Shares in Aer Lingus Group plc: Motion. (6 Jul 2006)

Tommy Broughan: There is nothing in it.