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Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim céad fáilte roimh an Aire. Is breá an rud dom a bheith ar ais sa Teach agus muid ag plé na ceisteanna fíor-thábhachtacha seo. An chloch is mó ar mo pháidrín inniu ná cúrsaí ola agus gáis agus an achrann nádúrtha sin atá eadrainn agus go mbeidh muide mar thír ag baint an leasa is tábhachtaí agus is fearr gur féidir linn as an gás agus an ola atá thiar ó chósta...

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It will not be possible to dig down. There is too much rock.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The issue is the tax return we get from those drillings. It is the taxation regime, over which we have full control, which puts us at the bottom of the league.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: A Government source provided the figures in this report.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: We do not have a zero yield.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Does that mean the Minister disagrees with the SIPTU report?

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: They are not my arguments, they are SIPTU's arguments.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Will the Minister review the Corrib licences, as his party promised?

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: He is avoiding the questions.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: There are reasons for that delay, as the Minister knows well.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: We are talking about people's rights and planning issues.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: What the Minister just said is scandalous.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It is a scandalous remark.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Minister's former party colleague, Mr. Michael D. Higgins, has a different stance on the issue.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: But Senator Harte would let them play for the Irish football team.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Ba mhaith liom cuidiú leis an rún atá os ár gcomhar. Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an Aire. Bhí mé ag déanamh amach an tseachtain seo caite go raibh imní orm nach raibh sé feicthe agam le tamall ach is breá an rud é a fheiceáil sa Teach arís. Cuirim céad fáilte roimhe, go háirithe go bhfuil sé anseo chun an cheist fíor-thábhachtach seo a phlé. Is ceist í an...

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Senator is gracious.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: An tseachtain seo caite, ghlaoigh mé ar an Aire, an Teachta Hogan, teacht anseo chun scéal a thabhairt dúinn maidir le Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta. Thuig muid ó ráiteas a rinne an Seanadóir Ó Maoláin an lá sin go raibh dea-scéal ar an mbealach. Ba mhaith liom a fhógairt nár tháinig aon dea-scéal go fóill. Ba bhreá linn dea-scéal a fháil, más féidir, ar son muintir...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I gave him a promotion. Were he a Minister, we might have had a bit of news. The Senator told us that there was a dea-scéal on the way, but the workers in question have still not got it four weeks into this situation. I ask for news as soon as possible. We are sitting here reasonably comfortably while a 65 year old pensioner, Ms Teresa Treacy, languishes in Mountjoy Prison. I see Members...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Tréaslaím le an Seanadóir as an méid atá ráite aige agus aontaím leis. Tá an ceart ar fad aige agus tá súil agam go mbeidh sé ag tacú leis an leasú ar an rún atá molta. I hope Senator Heffernan will support the amendment to the Order of Business because it is important that the Minister come to the House to deal with the matter. It is interesting. There was cross-party...