Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 265: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to increase the provision of liquified petroleum gas in petrol stations here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19009/08]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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The Irish oil industry is fully privatised, liberalised and deregulated. There is free entry into the market. Availability of liquefied petroleum gas in petrol stations is a matter for the industry, and is determined by commercial considerations such as the level of demand, cost of the product, transportation costs and other operating costs. Neither I, nor my Department, nor, indeed, the Government, has any role in relation to increasing the provision of liquefied petroleum gas in petrol stations.