David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will start with the contributions of Fianna Fáil Members. If we could generate electricity or energy from the hot air and wind that came from some Fianna Fáil Senators, we would be home and hosed in reaching our renewable energy targets. I must point to a number of facts. Sinn Féin's position on overgrounding versus undergrounding of high voltage power lines is the same in the North and the South. Our position on fracking is the same in the North and the South. We are against it. Senator Paschal Mooney is correct to point out that in the devolved assembly in the North responsibility for many areas, particularly fiscal matters, rests with Westminster. We have used this argument on countless occasions when we have been accused of imposing cuts to child benefit which are made directly at Westminster rather than in the Northern Ireland Assembly.