Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount paid by Bord Gáis for the wind turbines purchased from a society (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16503/13]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Bord Gáis Éireann is a commercial State company and this is an operational matter for the Board and not one in which I have a function.

SWS Natural Resources Limited was part of a business originally founded by the South Western Cattle Breeding Society. In December 2009 Bord Gáis Éireann acquired SWS Natural Resources Limited, a renewable energy business which included operational wind turbines, land leases and a renewable energy development pipeline.

Separate price information in respect of the wind turbines is not available as the price paid by Bord Gáis Éireann was for the entire business and such detailed price information would, in any case, be commercially sensitive.