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Written Answers — Human Trafficking: Human Trafficking (18 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will ratify the Council of Europe Convention on action against trafficking; the status of Garda operations known as Operation Hotel and Operation Quest; if these are still in operation; the results both operations have had yielded to date; if there are plans to establish similar operations to combat...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I wish to seek the Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the urgent need for the Government to outline what further action it intends to take to ensure the continued future of Aer Lingus as an independent airline and to block the proposed takeover by Ryanair, especially having regard to the consequences of such a move for the...

Fuel Prices. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if, in the context of the 34% price hike in gas prices and the near 20% increase in electricity prices, he will introduce legislation to establish a consumer panel within CER to ensure consumer needs are adequately taken into account by the regulator in energy pricing policy, and as recommended in the recent...

Fuel Prices. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I will speak about the impact on businesses and ordinary people. Is it not a fact that the savage gas and electricity price rises are having a devastating impact on business? Of the agencies that represent business, ISME claims that energy price rises in the past five years have been the No. 1 enemy of SMEs, the Irish Exporters Association warns that the large increase in energy costs must...

Fuel Prices. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I will refer to two companies, one in my constituency and one in the Minister's. The last thing people in my constituency wanted to hear yesterday was the devastating news about Cadbury, the famous chocolate company. There will be 450 job losses in Coolock. Those workers are receiving dismal reports about their futures as we speak.

Fuel Prices. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I am asking the Minister to comment on the impact of energy costs on Cadbury.

Fuel Prices. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: To be fair, I also want to ask the Minister about Wellman International Limited in Kells, County Meath. Its chief executive, Mr. R. G. Budden, warns that the increasing electricity costs foreseen for 2007 could force his company and its 300 workers into liquidation.

Fuel Prices. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Mr. Budden states that the company's electricity costs are 70% or 80% higher than previously.

Fuel Prices. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Regarding ordinary people, I met an older constituent recently. He told me that when he was a young boy in the tenements in Dublin, he needed overcoats on his bed each night due to the freezing cold. He asked me whether we are again facing an era of——

Fuel Prices. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: ——putting on overcoats because we cannot afford heating. The Minister is responsible.

Fuel Prices. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Would the Minister be prepared to introduce a statutory——

Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when he will bring forward legislation to ensure that the telecommunications sector is effectively regulated in view of the ongoing Smart Telecom debacle and the recent disconnection of over 45,000 Smart Telecom customers from their telephone and broadband services; if he will adopt ComReg's suggestion of...

Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister stated two and a half weeks ago, when 45,000 people woke up to find they had no telephone or broadband services, that he would rush emergency legislation through the House. Almost three weeks later, there is no sign of it. Ms Isolde Goggin, chairperson of ComReg, stated that she would like to see a statutory basis for a notice of withdrawal of service, in other words, every...

Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Is it not the Minister's job to legislate on behalf of the regulators such as CER and ComReg? He is not doing it.

Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister did so.

Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Ms Goggin wants legislation.

Telecommunications Services. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Fianna Fáil never rushes.

Electricity Generation. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: What will be the ultimate cost of the interconnector? What is its intended route? What implications, if any, will selecting the developer on a hybrid basis have for the State? What impact will the interconnector have on the electricity market when it is opened in 2012? For example, how will it affect the marginal cost, the retail sales index and the role of the incumbent, the ESB? In...

Electricity Generation. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: It is the consumers who have to pay for it.

Fisheries Protection. (19 Oct 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Will the Minister of State indicate if the report will be published openly or will it turn into a Deloitte & Touche affair, so to speak, whereby it will not be published for months and then eventually published in an underhand way? The Minister of State mentioned addressing financial hardship for individuals in his reply and we know the advice of the National Salmon Commission given last...