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Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: It is still cheaper than ours.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Could this affect the Corrib gas field?

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: It should be called "Noel Dempsey's Energy Bill". It will be talked about for centuries.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee (Resumed) (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: It is deplorable that the Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill has been amended so drastically after the Committee Stage debate. Earlier this year I criticised the shambolic introduction of the Bill in the House. It was first published in early March and was debated on Second Stage in the Dáil in April. Less than 24 hours before it was due to be discussed on Committee Stage, 36 pages of...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee (Resumed) (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Is it conceivable that this legislation could be used to facilitate a plan B for Corrib?

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: In general terms I support the amendments to the title and amendment No. 97 regarding Bord Gáis Éireann in respect of capital stock. There are, however, serious issues of competitiveness in Irish business and industry. As this is a miscellaneous provisions Bill and the domestic and business gas market face major challenges why did the Minister not use the opportunity to expand on some of...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: It is more than what the Opposition has.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: An employee share ownership plan, ESOP, does not imply there must be full privatisation. The Ceann Comhairle has kindly facilitated a discussion of Aer Lingus during tonight's Adjournment debate. It was a characteristic of that company's ESOP development that the workers responded to it by working in an increasingly more efficient way until their company was in a position to rival the...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: It was a disastrous error from which we are still scrambling to recover. The Minister knows this, despite the speech he made some weeks ago on broadband. The key point is that networks are sacrosanct. Key infrastructural networks belong to the 4.25 million of us who make up this nation. This must be borne in mind by everybody concerned, including the workers and the public.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: It could be Deputy Durkan.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: In that era the Minister was a member of the famous gang of four who were, allegedly, rebels in the Fianna Fáil Party. Look where he is now. What is the precise difference between the way Bord na Móna as a plc can now operate compared to how the ESB and Bord Gáis Éireann, the other two significant public sector energy companies, operate? Does Bord na Móna have more flexibility with...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister, Deputy Roche, knows the difference.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Clearly, this is a complex issue. In amendment No. 78 on Committee Stage I sought to bring within the safety remit of SER all aspects of pipelines and refinery installations, given that safety has been the major background issue to the long saga of the Corrib gas field which is entering its eleventh year. On the one hand, the Minister's amendment on the Title and the substantive amendment...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I seek clarification from the Minister on a proposed new section of the Bill. The civil servants from the Department provided Deputies with very helpful notes on these amendments because they were introduced so late in the process. One of the notes on the proposed new section 7 states that: these sections also provide a common sense safeguard against unnecessary delays or duplication of...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: A large minority.

Air Services. (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister for coming to the House for this debate. I have a file of e-mails, and have received many telephone calls, from Aer Lingus workers detailing their real distress and grave anxiety at the prospect of a predatory and hostile takeover by Ryanair. They repeat the unanswerable point about which the Minister was warned a few months ago and failed to take on board. The...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the National Pensions Reserve Fund. [33103/06]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 169: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that contrary to the report from the Decentralisation Implementation Group in the week ending 7 October 2006, the Central Applications Facility data compiled in June showed that applications for decentralised positions have slowed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33091/06]