Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-12-14-Speech-4-040"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:A European strategy for sustainable, competitive and secure energy – Biomass and Biofuels – Nuclear Safety and Security Assistance (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20061214.3.4-040"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-12-14-Speech-4-0412
lpv:speaker	lp:Jim Allister2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, you cannot have an open market in energy and a workable policy of energy-sharing without transparent competition. The Commission's Green Paper recognises this. However, on the island of Ireland, as part of a wider British Isles and European project, the opportunities for a free and fair market are being stifled by the state domination of the Republic of Ireland's market by the ESB. Its near-monopoly of both generation and distribution must be broken, as it is keeping others out of the market and smothering competition. I have to say that the Dublin Government has been most tardy in moving to break this monopoly. I call today on the Commission to be more robust in demanding delivery of this necessary change. With monopoly goes subsidised inefficiency and higher prices and so it would be for consumers in my constituency of Northern Ireland if we became a minority part of an energy market dominated by an unreformed ESB. We cannot have that!"@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PECH (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 substitute; INTA (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3,3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 member; AFCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 unknown; Democratic Unionist Party (Northern Ireland) (2004-07-20--2007-03-27)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"James Hugh Allister (NI ). –"1

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