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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
