Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Does Ms O'Neill agree with the view that two thirds of our biomass will have to be imported because Ireland is not set up for biomass? Does she agree that if we go down the wind road once a 50% threshold is reached we will be unable to handle it on the grid because of our generators?

There is a study being done at the moment, which will not be completed until the end of 2017, but the generation from wind cannot go past 50% at the moment because it is up and down. Does Ms O’Neill agree that at the moment in the wind sector we are guaranteeing prices to investors and we are not getting the net benefit cost from that? If we use wind would she agree that for businesses employing people throughout the country, to make it sustainable, if they have to manage on their own, the price of electricity per unit will be a lot higher?