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Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rationale for Sanctioning Energy Price Increases: Discussion with Commission for Energy Regulation (11 Dec 2013)

John O'Mahony: ...such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable. I advise that any opening statement submitted to the committee will be published on its website after the meeting. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way as...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rationale for Sanctioning Energy Price Increases: Discussion with Commission for Energy Regulation (11 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: ...We are told climate change is happening before our eyes and there will be more unpredictable weather. Surely, they should be concluding that putting the power lines overground might involve more long-term costs. Has the CER any say over the power that will be produced in the midlands, and if not, why?

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rationale for Sanctioning Energy Price Increases: Discussion with Commission for Energy Regulation (11 Dec 2013)

Michael Colreavy: ...where were prices were lowered by an energy regulator instead of increased? Have the delegates any figures for the projected timescale for the continuation of the supply of gas from Europe? How long do they expect that we will able to continue to get gas from Europe? Have any figures been produced to indicate that timescale?

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rationale for Sanctioning Energy Price Increases: Discussion with Commission for Energy Regulation (11 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: If Mammy or Daddy gets too drunk to go out and pay it the children end up in the dark and cold. That is the long and the short of it. Flawed and all as the other system was, if Mammy and Daddy went out and got drunk the children would have electricity. I understand where the witnesses are coming from but it will create hell for many children.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rationale for Sanctioning Energy Price Increases: Discussion with Commission for Energy Regulation (11 Dec 2013)

...underlying the price. In terms of gas from the EU, I would not be able to give any definitive view on the matter. We would have to consider whether there is available information in terms of how long it will last. Since my time in the energy industry, the availability of gas at a European and global level has continued to go further out.