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Telecommunications Services. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: The Jesuits reared the Minister well.

Energy Resources. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: On the last point, I support the Minister in his call for honesty. I do not have a problem with that and I know it is difficult but I ask the Minister to consider that it is not honesty that the poor and the elderly of this country need but rather support. The Minister cannot expect them to bear the burden he is asking of them this coming winter. It has to be a fair burden and we all must...

Energy Resources. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: Putting in oil-fired central heating.

Price Supports. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: Has the Minister done everything he was supposed to have done in regard to offshore wind? I think it was last year he announced the tariff scheme for offshore. I welcomed it at the time and I thought the industry indicated that there was the possibility of an investment of €4 billion in offshore, but we have seen no developments. When I raised this matter with the industry at a committee...

Price Supports. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: I am only asking about the Minister's role.

Price Supports. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: Why did the Minister announce it then if he had not got clearance?

Price Supports. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: Has the Minister not got it yet?

Price Supports. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: This is the month of May. The industry thinks it is a problem.

Price Supports. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: That is very worrying. When does the Minister expect to get it?

Price Supports. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: When was a grid connection in Belmullet agreed?

Price Supports. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: The Minister is looking to the developers to agree and they are not agreed on it.

Price Supports. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: Is the Minister saying it has not been agreed?

Health Services (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: I am grateful for an opportunity to raise the plight of Kevin McCabe of Wicklow and Joseph Hogan of Dublin, both of whom are inpatients at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire. It has been suggested that Kevin and Joseph will be discharged to the Mater Hospital from where they came, as they are included on the delayed discharge list. Both young men have nowhere else to go...

Health Services (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: What does that mean?

Fuel Prices. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the average price of petrol and diesel in May 2004 and in May 2008; the proposed increases in ESB and gas prices planned for 2008-09; the action he will take to ameliorate the hardship for those on low incomes and senior citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21610/08]

Fuel Prices. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: The Minister must recognise that this is a grossly inadequate response to what is a real and extensive problem. I ask him to recognise that the impact of fuel poverty is very severe. It can and does take human life. On this island, it is reckoned that approximately 2,500 lives are lost in winter. A fuel poverty strategy is in place in Northern Ireland. Does the Minister not accept that he...

Fuel Prices. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: That is sheer hypocrisy.

Fuel Prices. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: As we speak, the Minister's colleague is putting oil-fired central heating into council houses across the country so the Minister should not lecture us about fossil fuels.

Fuel Prices. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: The Minister's colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, is putting oil-fired central heating into low-income households. That is unsustainable and they will not be able to afford to pay for any——

Fuel Prices. (29 May 2008)

Liz McManus: The Minister should not talk to me about the problem.