Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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520. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the on-going progress towards the provision of gas supplies to the market from the Corrib gas field; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27339/13]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Completion of the Corrib gas field development works by the developer is the principal factor that will determine the date for first gas. Pending such completion, it is not possible to state a date for when gas from the Corrib gas field will become available. It is estimated that construction of the onshore section of the pipeline, which began in 2011, including the construction of a 5km tunnel, will take in the region of three years. First gas cannot therefore reasonably be anticipated before end 2014.