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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
