Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 118: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department has made representations to the energy regulator with regard to the need for a revision of the proposed gas prices for 2006 and 2007 due to the recent falls in the futures market price for gas. [33491/06]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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Gas and electricity tariffs are the statutory responsibility of the Commission for Energy Regulation, under the Electricity Regulation Act, 1999 and the Gas (Interim) (Regulation) Act, 2002. I have therefore no statutory function in relation to these issues.

The Regulator is on record as confirming an openness to review tariffs in light of definitive international trends.