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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-02/4/
2 Jun 1976 - Gas Bill, 1976: First Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/4/
23 Jun 1976 - Gas Bill, 1976: Financial Resolution.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - Gas Bill, 1976: Committee Stage.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - Gas Bill, 1976: Second Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - Gas Bill, 1976: Committee Stage (Resumed).
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-07-01/11/
1 Jul 1976 - Gas Bill, 1976: Report and Final Stages.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-13/5/
13 Jul 1976 - Gas Bill, 1976: Committee and Final Stages.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-15/39/
15 Jun 1976 - . - Gas Bill, 1976: Second Stage.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - Barry I called it the Gas Bill, 1976 because it is dealing with natural gas, and the point which Senator...I would like to thank the Seanad for their approval of this Bill and their acceptance of it.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1980-11-20/4/
20 Nov 1980 - Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Gas Act, 1976.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1982-06-22/19/
22 Jun 1982 - Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Gas Acts, 1976 and 1980.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1998-04-24/4/
24 Apr 1998 - Bill entitled an Act to repeal section 37 of the Gas Act, 1976.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-11-18/27/
18 Nov 2008 - Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Gas Acts 1976 to 2002.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-06-23/28/
23 Jun 1987 - Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Gas Acts, 1976 to 1982.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-05-26/15/
26 May 1998 - Bill entitled an Act to repeal section 37 of the Gas Act, 1976.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - The Senator also thought there was a contradiction between the terms used in the Bill about gas being...Senator Kilbride said that because there was gas off Kinsale Head it was reasonable to assume that gas...Senator Martin said this was a limited Bill, but I am not quite sure what he meant by this....My view of this Bill is that this is a Bill for all time to deal with all finds of natural gas....This is a Bill to deal with any natural gas in the future and it is not just to deal with the Kinsale
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - But we are talking here about the export of gas and, under paragraph (c) of subsection (3) they can liquefy...the gas....I do not think it is necessary or that it improves the Bill....All the powers that the Deputy rightly seeks to have in the hands of an Irish Governemnt are in the Bill...What I would be concerned about is that the people who discover the gas should not be the people to decide
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - That would be one of the options for the use of further finds of natural gas but, as I said earlier all...It may or may not prove feasible but the power is in the Bill for the board to liquefy the gas if they...Here we are only talking about exports of natural gas and if we get to a stage where we have a surplus...of natural gas, obviously the Government of the day would like to see as much value added to it inside...If it is considered best to liquefy the gas at that time the powers are there under subsection (7) and
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-07-01/11/
1 Jul 1976 - Barry Nothing in the Bill will waste gas....It provides for any future Minister for Transport and Power an opportunity to avail of natural gas for
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-02/4/
2 Jun 1976 - Leave granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision with respect to gas supply and for...body to be known in the Irish language as Bord Gáis Éireann and in the English language as the Irish Gas
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - Barry) The purpose of the Bill is to set up a statutory national gas board which will be the national...Before dealing with the Bill itself, I would like to dwell briefly on the events which led up to the...To have deferred action on the development of the Kinsale Head field until a Bill was enacted and the...Board acting within the statutory framework which will be provided by this Bill....I commend the Bill to the House.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-13/5/
13 Jul 1976 - The thinking behind the drafting of this Bill was that the board and the Government of the day should...It is possible to do this under the contract, apart from the Bill....There is nothing in the Bill which refers to the fact that parts of the present find of natural gas is...being supplied to the ESB, nor is there anything in the Bill which says that this must be so in the...catered for in the Bill by the board and the Government of the day.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-05-20/7/
20 May 1976 - Before 1st January, 1976, only customs duties were mentioned in the provision....A further extension became necessary to cover the special excise duty on liquid petroleum gas as from...29th January, 1976....This amendment is dealt with in section 40 (8) of the Bill....The amendment will apply up to the date of the passing of the Bill, on which date the text of the present
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - Barrett As well as the reasons that we have given for liquefying the gas the Minister should seriously...If you take the Dublin Gas Company as at present constituted and the prices which they are compelled...to charge for gas in this city, we have a situation now where the Dublin Gas Company are paying $160...gas available to them....consumers in Dublin will have to pay the bills.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - same—would prevent any decision being taken subsequently by a Government as to how and at what price this gas...We are dealing with a Bill to set up a Gas Board initially to handle the Kinsale gas field in a case...where we know where the gas is going and the price it will go at....There may be other finds in different places and circumstances and to confine that board to selling gas...to the Gas Board.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - I assure him the board, as set up under this Bill, will be independent of the Minister....Up to now oil and gas were not industries associated with Ireland....Those who wanted to study oil and gas would have to go abroad....other companies, as the Minister for Industry and Commerce advances with his legislation, and when this Bill...which produced the gas.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - Barry The effect of the Deputy's argument would be that the Cork Gas Company would be getting a cheaper...form of energy than the Dublin Gas Company or the Limerick Gas Company and, therefore, highly intensive...industries would see that the gas is cheaper in Cork than in Dublin or Limerick.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-07-01/11/
1 Jul 1976 - Barry I can agree with the last point made by Deputy O'Malley that the Bill we are debating and just...This gas board has been set up to deal at the moment with one find of natural gas....However, the Bill is designed to allow any further finds to be handled by the gas board, and the policy...Deputy O'Malley spoke about feeding gas to industry....There is a section in the Bill which allows, outside the gas board at all, gas to be fed directly to
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - of the speech of Lord Ryder, chairman of the National Enterprise Board and a member of the British Gas...I am quoting from The Times of today's date: He said that when there was talk of raising gas prices...gas's rivals, "I have to pinch myself to confirm that I am still living in the real world and not at a 1976...It would be wrong for the Government to allow gas prices to rise so that it formed "a wretched cartel
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-10-20/23/
20 Oct 1976 - Seanad Éireann has passed the Family Home Protection Bill, 1976 without amendment....Seanad Éireann has passed the Adoption Bill, 1976 without amendment....Seanad Éireann has passed the Gas Bill, 1976 without amendment....Seanad Éireann has passed the Emergency Powers Bill, 1976 without amendment....Seanad Éireann has passed the Criminal Law Bill, 1976 without amendment.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - The Minister said last week and again today—and there is provision for it in this Bill—that the question...Lower cost energy will mean more users of gas in the future....Gas Company....Dublin gas users have been suffering as a result of the prices being charged for gas and a further increase...It was an emergency forced on the Dublin Gas Company.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - I quote from "Natural Gas, European Communities, Brussels 27th January, 1976": Electricity generation...This is not just the thinking in 1976 or 1975; it was going on in 1974 when the Government decision was...In the current issue of their journal for May, 1976, the European Investment Bank have a very interesting...We must get the gas ashore. That is provided for in the Bill....I may say that is my only point basically on this Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - Barry Deputy Moore and Deputy Barrett have referred to the use of gas inside the State but in fact their...amendment refers to the export of natural gas, that it shall not be done without liquefication....I have a certain amount of sympathy for this idea but as regards any conditions for the export of gas...It may be right, as Deputy Moore and Deputy Barrett say, that the way to serve the Dublin Gas Company...is to liquefy the gas and transport it by tanker.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - Kilbride I do not intend to detain the House very long in discussing this Bill which should be welcomed...If you have gas off the Head of Kinsale you could reasonably assume that there will be gas finds along...We should be able to find gas, or have a reasonable chance of finding gas, in sufficient amounts to meet...The people who will find employment as a result of a gas find will be our own people....We are likely to have a rosy future from discoveries of gas and oil.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-06-23/4/
23 Jun 1976 - Russell I would like to add my voice to that of Senator Lenihan on the Gas Order....Obviously the Dublin Gas Company requires substantially increased powers to borrow money....Bill at present going through the Dáil, and I do not know whether it is the wish of the Leas-Chathaoirleach...to allow discussion today on the merits or otherwise of utilising natural gas for the production of...Bill when it comes before this House.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - Barry If this Bill is passed the legislation will be there to control the export of gas.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - We do not envisage the likelihood of piping gas to Britain because Britain has ample gas of her own....Though all the gas finds are in the North Sea, the British gas grid has now extended as far as South...the gas from our southern waters to the French coast....In addition, there may be major gas finds off the west coast....This means it will not be necessary to land the gas from far out at sea.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - We would have wished that the Minister would have come in here on a Bill such as this, in a debate on...There is provision in some section of the Bill for the carrying out of an extensive detailed study but...we are hoping to have some of that gas ashore within two years....It is proposed in the Bill to ask the board to initiate such studies but in discussing the Bill we should...is piped direct into existing gas undertakings and municipal gas plants.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - O'Malley That is the point because some of the gas—hopefully —will be found in 2,000-2,300 feet of water...miles or more west of our west coast and there is no way within the next 12 or 15 years by which that gas...in order to be put in tankers it must be liquefied there because it is not possible to transport the gas...I believe that is being worked on at present but the gas or oil will not be commercially recoverable,...This Bill should look ahead as far as possible at this stage to that sort of situation which will be
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - Barry) I should like to thank the House for the unanimously favourable reception given to this Bill....Every speaker, from Senator Lenihan to Senator Martin who has just concluded, welcomed the Bill coming...That has nothing to do with the Bill, as they admitted, because a Government decision was taken outside...the confines of this Bill....The primary purpose of the Bill is to deal with the national gas board but, hopefully, in years to come
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - Butler I welcome the Bill....We must realise that this is not a major find; in fact, it is a very small natural gas find....There is no guarantee whatsoever that we will find more gas. It is speculation....the type of find we have, I believe that what is now being done, what is now being proposed in the Bill...I agree with the Bill before the House.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - We should aim at the establishment of a national gas company which would help to establish industries...The only way this can be done is by forming a national gas company....company would bring the benefits derived from finds of natural gas to the people....We want natural gas to be used for the benefit of the people....Deputy O'Malley also mentioned turf, which is not nearly as powerful as natural gas.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - It would defeat the whole purpose of the Bill and would mean that if there are no other finds of gas...in this country, any industry that ties up the Cork Gas Company has an advantage over an industry anywhere...the Opposition want, that we will say, "to hell with everybody else; we have only this one find of gas...The price has been fixed already for the find of gas we have had....It may be that we will decide to give them the gas at a special price so that they can build up their
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1990-07-04/5/
4 Jul 1990 - In effect, the board already has four subsidiaries in the gas utility companies which it acquired that...is Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Clonmel Gas Companies....Section 9 of the Gas Act, 1976 provides for the making of an order to confer on the board, such functions..., in relation to the provision of a supply of gas, as the Minister thinks proper....section 2 of the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1988, and in section 2 of the Turf Development Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - Our amendment certainly sets out to do that, because gas is basically cheaper than electricity....We have a certain amount of natural gas-not a lot, but enough for certain purposes....It is throwing away the advantages that the discovery of gas can give us....to raise taxation out of energy sources was the imposition in the budget introduced on 28th January, 1976...While these may be called profits under section 11 of the Gas Act, 1976, as it will be, in effect they
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - Minister said this morning is put into practice and if an effort is made after the passing of this Bill...municipal or town gas is now being sold at....an increase of 10 per cent by the Dublin Gas Company in the price of gas to their consumers only last...gas is to be sold at the same rate as town or municipal gas at the moment....companies in five or ten years' time to have natural gas rather than have to make gas out of naphtha
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - The purpose of this amendment is to give the gas board control over all gas landed or got within the...whether it was for consumption within the State or, being optimistic, in the event of our finding more gas..., or whether the gas board were involved in the export of gas landed or got within the jurisdiction of
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2010-02-04/4/
4 Feb 2010 - In page 5, line 27, to delete "Gas Act 1976" and substitute "Act of 1976".
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - If we have a national gas grid, and I hope this will ultimately develop, all the major urban centres,...and anywhere along the line of that grid, will have natural gas available....Most parts of the country would be able to develop industry based on natural gas....There are many industries for which natural gas is not suitable and it would be no advantage to them...to have natural gas, even in the cheapest form.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - O'Malley As established at present, but this is because town gas is very dear and also very bad....Tens of thousands more people would be willing to use natural gas if it were available.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-06-23/4/
23 Jun 1976 - call the next speaker I would like to point out with reference to Senator Russell's remarks that the Gas...Bill will eventually come to us and a detailed discussion will take place on the whole question under...that Bill....In the Parliamentary Secretary's opening speech on page 2 he did make a reference to the natural gas
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - because it was taken at that time it is a suspect decision, a decision which now, in the calmness of 1976...On the other hand, it is possible to argue that in the apparent calm of 1976 we have allowed ourselves...It does not arise out of the Bill itself...., the recognition in the Bill that it may be replaced by another Bill—the uncertainty that exists with...makes it a limited Bill and one that can easily yield to a far more comprehensive Bill and perhaps ultimately
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - in capital investment to either (a) convert the gas to town gas as it is called or (b) convert the cookers..., or whatever, for the end function of the gas....It was not commenced because we had no natural gas....Minister for Transport and Power of the day will have to come to the Dáil and Seanad to amend this Bill...gas grid— would be unjustified at the moment.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - In the event of future finds this section of the Bill is broad enough to allow the board make what they...as to the economics of the various possible uses to which the gas could be put....We are talking here about natural gas and I am not sure if the technology to liquefy this is available...to be enormously expensive and perhaps would not work out, but every option for the use of natural gas...option or series or combination of options that might turn up in the future for the use of natural gas
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - can understand the necessity for this when one is dealing with an important matter such as natural gas...A number of boards such as the ESB, CIE, the Dublin Gas Company and the Cork Gas Company have such a
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - encouraging them to set up industries in parts of the country where perhaps there will not be natural gas...The Netherlands, who have far more natural gas and are far more dependent on it than England, have always...maintained a policy of an equivalent price for oil and natural gas....If he wants to put an excise duty on natural gas he can do it....If it is Government policy that oil and gas should have an equivalent price in the economy so as not
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - Barrett That is right, where there is not a natural gas supply....At Second Stage we said very clearly that natural gas should be made available in places like Limerick
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - The reason for amendment No. 5b is to give the board control over gas, landed or got within the jurisdiction...of the State, and that even if some of that gas is not for consumption in the State the board would...have control over the export of that gas....The licensee in this case shall offer the gas for sale to the board at reasonable terms.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - Section 8 subsection (7), reads: The board shall not export gas or construct a pipeline, except pursuant...This subsection allows, if necessary, for the liquefication of gas....For instance, there could be a situation years hence where small gas fields would be found at the edge...There is the further point that if very big gas finds off our coast were brought ashore and put into...Acceptance of this amendment would mean liquefying the gas at the Border before sending it on whereas
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-07-01/11/
1 Jul 1976 - Then this argument is prevented from going on not just in two years' time or for one future gas find...We want the freedom to use it and to have every option open to Government in the use of that gas and...the prices charged for that gas....We must not confine in this Bill the price either at a low level or a high level....The gas contract negotiated between the ESB and Bord Gáis Éireann is an interruptable contract.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-15/39/
15 Jun 1976 - Barrett The Bill refers to gas when landed, not all gas found.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-11-10/4/
10 Nov 1976 - Barrett We welcome this Bill and the principle involved in it....On 31st March, 1976, the ESB owed £149 million, according to the report....As we said during the debate on the Gas Bill which set up An Bord Gáis, that money could have been better...spent in the creation of a national gas grid fed by our natural gas....The use of gas by the ESB will involve a 70 per cent wastage——
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - £500 was stamp duty and the Ambassador Oil Company spent £15 million exploring for oil and natural gas...Were it not for that agreement, we would not be debating this Bill today.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-07-01/11/
1 Jul 1976 - subsequently at some figure or other, which will allow the Minister for Finance, under section 11 of this Bill...It is unreal to be expected to debate this Bill, particularly the implications of section 11, without...The one I have spoken about several times, not alone in this Bill, but other Bills and Estimates in the...For these reasons I regret some of the consequences of this Bill....and have no powers that I can see in this Bill to undertake any kind of exploration themselves——
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - In that sense the Senator is correct, in that it is dealing only with natural gas....If he looks at the definition section of the Bill, section 2, he will see the commission referred to
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - page 7, after line 51, to add a new subsections as follows: "(10) The Board shall not export natural gas...down this amendment we appreciate that it would be most unlikely that we would be exporting natural gas...from the present gas supply of Kinsale....We envisage bigger strikes and, hopefully, more natural gas being available and the day could arrive...when we would be exporting natural gas.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - Barry That is the general principle behind the legislation, that the Gas Board should get all the gas...and we established a grid which extended roughly from Galway down east and south, and that is all the gas...But supposing at some later stage there is a very small field of gas found off the north coast of Donegal...at the same time, coincidentally, we get a huge industry here which wants a large supply of natural gas...field and to let the Gas Board direct the find to that industry on a separate contract basis.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - If the Minister wants to do this at a future date the power to do so is in the Bill....To write it in would restrict the freedom of a Minister or Government or the Gas Board at a future date
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - It puts the emphasis on the process of liquefying natural gas at home, thus providing employment....The gas finds off our southern coasts might well be sent to the bigger cities, Dublin, Waterford, Galway...We must move quickly to ensure that the distribution of Kinsale gas will not be hampered by the fact...If we had a liquefying plant we could export the gas and also serve our own cities.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - Barrett Do we know if the gas board in Britain have a monopoly in the buying of oil and gas?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - O'Malley The difficulty is that we would prefer to see that the Gas Board would be offered all the...gas that was going, anyway, if that is feasible.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - Barrett Before we leave this most important section of the Bill, we know it takes over the functions...and bringing it from the coast by tanker to make it available to the Dublin Gas Company....In the Middle East gas is being exported in liquefied form into France....This is the argument put forward for giving this gas to the ESB....We come to the costing for the Dublin consumer market and making gas available to the Dublin Gas Company
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - Deputy Barrett quoted the case in England of the conflict between natural gas, the coal board and the...People using electricity as a source of energy would have to pay more than the people using gas, if this...It would create a distorted market in gas, that because it was cheaper people would come away from using...turf and electricity and try to get natural gas, which would increase the flow from the present and...Deputy Barrett proposes in this amendment that the benefit of all gas in the economy should go to gas
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - Harte Naturally, I also welcome the Bill....give, coupled with the activities of organisations such as Fóir Teoranta and the Employment Premium Bill...We must welcome the Bill on the basis that there will be probably 500 people permanently employed....It will not satisfy people to say that section 37 of the Bill provides that all natural gas landed in...You can tell the nation we have a good deal: under section 37, the Bill provides that natural gas landed
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - Barry Will not go to places where there is not a natural gas supply.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - Finance give the Board such general directives concerning the pricing policy as to the sale or supply of gas...NET are not using gas as an energy source....In that case, the Minister would give directions for a specific industry to get gas at a specific price
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - There is serious conflict in Britain between coal and electricity on the one side and gas on the other...Gas is substantially and significantly cheaper....There has been a considerable increase in the use of gas since cheap natural gas became available in...because they are being replaced by an alternative, cheaper and more efficient form of energy in natural gas
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - Barry The licence issued by the Minister for Industry and Commerce says the gas must be landed in Ireland...This legislation says it must be offered to the Gas Board.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-07-01/11/
1 Jul 1976 - attributed to the discovery, delineation or development of the deposit from which the relevant natural gas...and Deputy O'Malley sought to ensure that the price negotiated by Bord Gáis Éireann for any finds of gas...They put in an amendment to add after the last line "of the Arbitration Act, 1976", "only expenses incurred...sympathetic to their thinking but the use of the word "block" could be over-restrictive in a find of gas...expenses he may incur or in any way inhibit such licensee from exploring and exploiting the natural gas
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - error in typing amendment No. 5a, because what I wrote, as far as I can remember, is: "all natural gas...to the Minister in relation to his amendment and to our 5a as it appears there is that it is only gas...Gas got outside the State but within the jurisdiction of the State is not covered....consists of the land of Ireland and three miles beyond it, but the jurisdiction of the State so far as gas
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - Barry In fairness to the people supplying the gas, we must give them some person they can appeal to...if they feel they are being badly done by, by the people they must sell the gas to under the law.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - follows: In giving directives under this section the Minister shall seek to ensure that the price of gas...social policy to do things which bring the price of gas up to the price of electricity for consumers..., thereby depriving traditional gas users of a cheap supply of energy is a fallacious argument....We believe that the subsection which we are seeking to have included in the Bill, is fundamental to any...future policy with regard to the utilisation of natural gas.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - A few miles away at present they are tapping for gas off Kish Bank in Dublin Bay....Suppose they found natural gas there, with the heavy concentration of industry on the east coast you...would have to sell the gas to many of these industrialists who would have tremendous conversion costs...It would be essential, therefore, to guarantee to these firms that they would have cheap natural gas,...There are many fairly heavy industries in the area but they could only take natural gas at a certain
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-07-01/11/
1 Jul 1976 - It is a matter of demand in the country, and if the money were not spent on conversion of natural gas...The Bill gives me freedom, as Minister for Transport and Power, and to my successors, to use the gas...The Bill is an important measure and will be looked on in the future as a carefully thought-out piece
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - O'Malley The Minister for Finance could not contemplate putting a tax on natural gas to drive up the...whatever is left after the various charges have been paid, in effect he is putting a tax on natural gas...It will be a tragedy if, after all this long waiting, we land our natural gas and find it is costing...They are the factors which should govern the price of natural gas....That is why we have a public board getting in all the gas, being the only group entitled to buy the gas
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-06-23/4/
23 Jun 1976 - as far as domestic and industrial gas consumption is concerned....The Dublin Gas Company, of course, is the organisation concerned with industrial and domestic gas consumption...One aspect which I would like to refer to which is probably more relevant on the Gas Bill but I think...is relevant here as well, that is the utilisation of natural gas....We can deal with it in greater detail on the Gas Bill when the Minister will be here.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1990-07-04/5/
4 Jul 1990 - with such borrowings and may be a guarantee of payment of a promissory note made by the company or a bill...The Cork Gas Company deals with the distribution of gas....There is also the Limerick Gas Company, the Clonmel Gas Company, the City of Waterford Gas Company and...Natural Gas Finance Limited....Gas is an important source of fuel and as we have native gas every effort should be made to utilise it
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-07-01/11/
1 Jul 1976 - occupation of the Opposition to spend most of their time indulging in academic debate as to the best use of gas...We know that by commercial standards this gas find will provide 11 per cent of our needs....Even if the consumption of gas in Dublin were to be doubled—even if we told everybody in Dublin that...he or she must use twice as much gas and even turn over from electricity to gas—it would take years to...The more gas we can take from the field the cheaper the price will become.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - final point about the EEC directive, that directive does not prohibit use in member states of natural gas...for electricity generation but it sets out the circumstances in which the use of natural gas for the...The Government decision to give the natural gas to the ESB was taken in March, 1974, 12 months earlier...technical reasons or if the gas cannot be put to a more profitable use....time was less than 10 per cent of the total gas find.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2002-02-06/5/
6 Feb 2002 - move: That notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, the Committee to which the Sustainable Energy Bill..., 2001 may be recommitted in respect of certain amendments has power to make provision in the Bill in...relation to the amendment of the Gas Act, 1976 and the Electricity Regulation Act, 1999."
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-13/5/
13 Jul 1976 - , the Gas Act, 1972....Exactly the same power exists in the British Gas Act, 1972, as we are writing into this Bill....Suppose the next find of natural gas was in Cork and industries in Cork were given that natural gas at...In this Bill we are allowing an argument on the price of natural gas....It would make the Government look ridiculous to have a section like that in the Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-13/5/
13 Jul 1976 - That company will go out of existence on the appointed day under this Bill....The contract signed by Bord Gáis Éireann with Marathon to buy the gas or the contract by Bord Gáis Éireann...with NET and the ESB to sell the gas will be transferred to Bord Gáis Éireann....ESB and Bord Gáis Éireann is an interruptible contract, not because the Government think the use of gas...wasteful but because it may be in the future that the Government will say that it is better that this gas
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-15/39/
15 Jun 1976 - The Minister should have another look at the Bill before it is finalised....It is true that it is not in the Bill that the ESB shall have the allocation of gas but the point is...that the Bill enables the Minister to develop not only the southern gas find but gas that we hope will...I believe the Bill has been prepared in haste....another six months for this Bill and have it perfected.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - Barry I did not say Cork Harbour; I said the Cork Gas Company.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1976-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1976 - Dolan Is é príomh-chuspóir an Bhille seo bord a bhunú—bord Stáit atá i gceist agam—chun gás a sholáthar...When we come to talk about the gas board we think of the various sources of energy that are available...In my own county when work on boring a well last year was being carried out gas was found instead of...of these intricate gas rigs which are stationed in dangerous parts of the ocean....It is wrong for them to cease to do this in 1976 and fall back on a type of policy which will make it
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - O'Malley is to get gas cheaper than anybody else in Limerick....If he wants to put an excise duty on gas, he can; he need not depend on this....What the Deputies are doing will in my view, prevent debate on another gas find as to its use and as...The amendment in effect says that the gas must be sold cheaply in spite of all other considerations.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - The manner in which the gas was allocated by Bord Gáis Éireann Teoranta and the fact that the ESB were...We maintain that the question of a gas grid should have been considered two years ago, not now after...this Bill is passed....The loss of 70 to 75 per cent of this gas by generating electricity is a waste of natural resources....Instead of that there is this colossal waste of our natural gas.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - However, the problem there might be that if gas was found and it was not of commercial quality and did...not merit exploitation, it would still have to be offered to the gas board, whereas the word "got" covers...the situation that if it is found and can be exploited, then the Gas Board must get it.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/5/
23 Jun 1976 - O'Malley ——comes in as excise duty imposed by the Minister on natural gas or comes in under the name
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-06-23/26/
23 Jun 1976 - Moore This is a reasonable amendment that could safeguard persons using natural gas for manufacturing...The Minister by direction may change the price of the gas....The Minister should try to maintain the price of gas at its low rate rather than attempting to obtain...All that our amendment seeks to do is to keep down the price of gas....Because of the decision of the Government to use gas as it will be used, there will be an enormous loss
