Results 1,741-1,760 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: I refer to a press release I received from the Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey who is in Hanoi where he met Dr. Do Trung Ta. The Vietnamese Government is spending $4 billion on an ICT system. This is approximately â¬3.7 billion more than what the Irish Government is spending over the next eight or ten years. It is hoped the Minister will come back from Hanoi a changed man when we will be...
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: It is clear from the recent Deloitte & Touche report and from previous similar reports â I note Sustainable Energy Ireland will present its annual energy statistics next week â that the Irish electricity market is small and does not have a high degree of interconnectivity. These two factors can in themselves greatly contribute to high prices and medium to long-term energy insecurity...
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: In February 2005, Members were interested and excited by the opening of the market. People believed they would have a choice of generators and suppliers. However, aside from the ESB, operators such as Viridian have never shown an interest in the domestic market. This is a real problem with deregulation. It is clear the Republic and Northern Ireland should accrue the greatest benefits from...
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Even being Minister of State could be an awkward and ugly position for Deputy Browne then.
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: The 2004 all-island energy market framework agreed by the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources and Northern Ireland's Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment sets out clearly the benefits that might accrue if the single market comes through, making the island a more stable and attractive investment location, increasing competitiveness, extending diversity,...
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: We have had the opposite of what we might have expected. Despite the trumpeted market opening in 2005, of which I spoke, there is no choice for our household consumers. The Government is not one that delivers choice, certainly as far as electricity is concerned. It has not been able to do that so far. The botched 1992 privatisation in Northern Ireland also left consumers there with high...
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Garret used say that the level of rise in inflation is falling. Of course, every one scratched their heads. Subsequently, they all went out and voted against the Government, which included my party, and we had one desperate election count in 1987 as a result. It is astonishing, once again, that this critical energy legislation has no mechanism to facilitate the needs of consumers, both...
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: The organisation of the single electricity market committee is detailed in Schedule IA but there are a number of aspects of that to which I intend to return with amendments. The energy market is increasingly regulator-led and, therefore, the provisions for regulating the SEM committee are of the greatest importance. As I stated, section 4 deals with the establishment of the new single...
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: I read about it. We always follow those think-ins.
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Mr. Helm has continually warned of the danger of governments using the regulator as a mudguard. Regulators have provided a mudguard for this Government over the last ten years in order to evade their primary responsibility of keeping the country's lights on. I will quote briefly from what Mr. Helm forcefully said in a similar article about Britain, which appeared recently in the New...
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: In the context of the recent report, the reservation of 300 MW is valuable. The Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, seems to be happy enough but last week he was getting ready to blame other people. He said that others had assured him at the highest level, which I presume is EirGrid, the ESB and the CER. The Minister has them in his sights if the lights go out.
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Many other issues arise concerning security of supply. Recently, for example, we heard a rumour that the ESB was to take over Viridian. What will happen if somebody else takes over Viridian and becomes the owner of the Northern Ireland network as well? What implications would that have for the single electricity market and for the Republic's market? Until today, most people would have...
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: ââas well as the slowness in bringing forward this legislation. I warmly welcome the Bill which amounts to a form of practical patriotism. I hope we will be able to return on Committee Stage to some of the issues I have raised.
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Sounds good.
- Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Deputy Broughan also raised the issue of the extension of the go live date for the market. Following a review by CER and its Northern Ireland counterpart, NIAER, on the progress of the project to deliver the SEM, the Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, and the Secretary of State, Peter Hain, MP, endorsed a recommendation of the regulatory authorities to extend the go live date for the SEM from 1...
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (30 Nov 2006)
Tommy Broughan: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the details of the â¬1.75 million Government funding for Horse Sport Ireland the national governing body for equestrian sport; the prospects for equestrian sport here arising from the development of this body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40816/06]
- Postal Services: Motion (5 Dec 2006)
Tommy Broughan: And perhaps three or four poor Ministers.
- Postal Services: Motion (5 Dec 2006)
Tommy Broughan: The Deputy is a rebel from the rebel city.
- Postal Services: Motion (5 Dec 2006)
Tommy Broughan: It is six days in France.
- Postal Services: Motion (5 Dec 2006)
Tommy Broughan: I wish to share time with Deputies Moynihan-Cronin and Upton.