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Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to appear before Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture

12 MFómh 2011, 14:38

The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture will meet with the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte TD, and the Secretary General at the Department tomorrow, Tuesday 13th September to discuss priority issues for the Department.

Committee Chairman, Andrew Doyle TD said: “This Committee has an extremely wide brief covering several matters of national importance and the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources is one of two Government Departments it is shadowing. The Committee has a key role to play in helping to shape and influence the agenda as well as scrutinising some of the most important activities in areas such as the provision of broadband services, renewable energy and the implementation of a smart grid. Our meeting with both the Minister and the Secretary General is fitting and timely in that it will provide members of the Committee with an opportunity to question the Minister on priority issues for the Department and raise any issues they may have.”

This meeting tomorrow is the first in a series of meetings with key players in the areas of communications, natural resources and agriculture so that the Committee can get an overview of the major issues under its remit and focus on the specific areas it wishes to pursue as part of its Work Programme to the end of 2011. Minister of State with responsibility for the NewEra Project, Fergus O’Dowd TD, will appear before the Committee at a later date.”

This meeting will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, 13th September, in Committee Room 3, Leinster House 2000 at 3.30pm.

Committee proceedings can be followed live at:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/ViewDoc.asp?fn=/documents/livewebcast/Web-Live.htm&CatID=83&m=o

For further information please contact:

Ciaran Brennan,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
Communications Unit,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2

P: +3531 618 3903
M: 086-0496518
F: +3531 618 4551

Committee Membership

Deputies

Tom Barry, Michael Colreavy, Pat Deering, Robert Dowds, Andrew Doyle, Martin Ferris, Noel Harrington, Martin Heydon, Colm Keaveney, Mattie McGrath, Michael McNamara, Michael Moynihan, Éamon Ó Cuív, John O’Mahony and Thomas Pringle.

Senators

Michael Comiskey, Paschal Mooney, Pat O’Neill, Mary Ann O’Brien, Brian Ó Domhnaill, John Whelan


 

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