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Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: The Minister is starting a pilot project. He should not mislead people.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: It is a pilot project of a couple of thousand meters and it will take two years.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: Like spending €600 million on an interconnector?

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: Is that good value?

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: One would swear the country was booming.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: There is not.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: We have to pay too much for electricity and gas.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: There is no proper broadband infrastructure. They are the Minister's areas.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: By half of what they should be falling.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: It is a holding company.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: I suggest the Minister reads the document.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: Does the Minister think we have efficiencies in our State companies at the moment?

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: It is not a quango. The Minister is worse than Fianna Fáil when it comes to spin. He has forgotten what it is like to have a bit of humility.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: I have spoken to the councillor. That is a pathetic spin. Local authorities should not have to pay for power points for electric car charging.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: Deputy Cuffe's Government is not giving them any money. That is the problem. Fine Gael people understand what a budget is, but Deputy Cuffe's party does not.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: That is pathetic.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: We have not said it.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: The Deputy is a hypocrite.

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: Which ones are we privatising?

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Simon Coveney: Which ones are we proposing? Deputy Thomas Byrne does not know what he is talking about. He should inform himself before he speaks in a debate in this House.