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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.
