Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 693: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the organisations or authorities operating within his Department's policy area, set up by statute or statutory instrument, for which he does not have official responsibility to Dáil Éireann. [31108/07]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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Three organisations operating within my Department's policy area, the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) and Regtel, communications sector, and the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) are independent statutory bodies established by the Government. All are legally independent in the performance of their functions and both CER and ComReg are answerable to Joint Oireachtas Committees.

In addition, the Single Electricity Market Committee (SEM Committee) was established under section 4 of the Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Act 2007 (No 5 of 2007). This is a cross-Border committee established to regulate the Single Electricity Market, the all-island wholesale market in electricity. The Committee is made up of representatives of the CER Regulation, the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation, as well as an Independent Member.

In common with all Ministers, I have no function in the day-to-day operational issues for any of the organisations or authorities operating within my Department's policy area.