Results 15,241-15,260 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Is the Minister concerned about the closure of the Tarbert station? It is capable of 650 MW.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Where does the Minister expect to leave the ESB as a percentage of the market generation in 2010?

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Will it not be 67% in July of next year?

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: No, I am referring to the marginal price, which will be at 67% next July.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: What of the all-island market?

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Much of the stock is outside Ireland.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: We have been waiting for NORA for years.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Is that the end of Second Stage?

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: That is because there are no biofuels to make the cards.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: That will happen under the next Government.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: We could build it in Dún Laoghaire.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Is there no Dutch Fianna Fáil Party?

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: We might take the party over yet.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: He may end up as Leader of the Opposition.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The grant is too small.

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Order of Business. (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: Yesterday, the chief executive of An Bord Gáis said that a 40% rise in domestic and commercial gas prices is a certainty later on this year. We are facing double digit price rises in electricity, while petrol and diesel prices on the forecourts are moving relentlessly over €1.20 per litre. In that context, will the Tánaiste ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural...

Order of Business. (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: He should come forward with a proper, well thought out energy Bill, which places consumers at the centre.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the critical need to ensure that essential social infrastructure, including adequate child care facilities, primary, secondary and third level educational institutions, primary health care and general hospital services, and public transport will be put in place in the huge north fringe...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (18 May 2006)

Tommy Broughan: The Health Service Executive's capital programme was published this morning and there is not a single grant for the Dublin North-East constituency, although it is represented in this House by two Fianna Fáil Deputies. It is a disgraceful state of affairs.