Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We should be honest. The withdrawal agreement has little detail on the energy market. In effect, it is part of a future arrangement. We should be honest. The message I have from Brussels, Berlin and elsewhere is a point-blank insistence on any members of the single electricity market playing by the rules and accepting the ECJ as the final arbiter of those rules. We would be better off being upfront and honest about that from the start. There may be some legal hook by virtue of which the EU will allow the UK to get the benefit from that. If we are not honest and straight about this, we could end up in an isolated UK and Ireland electricity market, which would be 50% more expensive than a continental equivalent and dramatically affect our digital, medical device and other industries as well as consumers. It would be better to keep the UK in the market and be honest about what that entails.