Electricity Transmission Assets To Remain With ESB

Fine Gael Senate Spokesman on Energy, Communications and Natural Resources Senator Tony Mulcahy has welcomed Minister Pat Rabbite’s decision that the ownership of the electricity assets will remain with the ESB while EirGrid will continue to operate and develop the transmission system.

This Goverment decision has followed months of consultations and the report carried out by Frontier Economics Limited under the independent chairmanship of Mr Fergus Cahill. Senator Mulcahy said “This decision ensures that Ireland complies with the E.U. Third Energy Package directives the objective of which is to facilitate cross border trade, reduce energy costs for consumers and businesses alike. This is most important in the single energy market that operates on the island of Ireland” 

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Let me give it to you straight!

I'm absolutely livid and I hope you are too.

The country is full of unecessary and ineffecient quangos stuffed with vastly overpaid crony appointees. Keeping these people in the style to which they have become accustomed is quite literally killing the country. So, while you now see a huge reduction in your wages, assuming you still have a job, these guys are cemented in place with contracts they wrote for themselves.


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It is time to give the people who caused this disaster, the kick in the backside they deserve and give others a chance to sort out the shameful waste in the public finances, fix the health system, get people back to work and stop the scurge of emigration. I will give every ounce of energy to reverse the mismanagement of the past decade.

It's easy to believe that all politicians or political parties are the same. We'll they're not. It's a cop-out to say that you can't change anything. Yes you can.

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