Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----in terms of a transition fuel. They will be there and we need them for security of supply. People talk about coal and say we should turn off Moneypoint. I have heard what has been said in the past couple of weeks about closing Moneypoint, for which I have some sympathy, but if one were to close Moneypoint, one can forget about the supply of energy in the country. There will not be a reliability of supply. It will not be a case of a Minister going down to switch it off some day soon. It will be a plan to phase out fossil fuels generally. That is what the White Paper is about.

The White Paper will be quite high level in terms of policy direction. Some of the specifics the Deputy mentioned are included in it. For example, we will address the issue of community energy projects and the involvement of communities, whether that is through co-operatives or equity holdings in projects and so forth, as one sees in other countries.