Dr. Paul Deane:

The Deputy is correct. It is hypocrisy but it is hypocrisy with which we have become comfortable in Europe and Ireland. It is illegal to generate electricity by nuclear means in Ireland and yet we import it. We might not like fracking in Ireland but there is no way of knowing if the origin of oil and gas molecules is Qatar, Russia, Algeria or the United States. It is hypocritical but it is not anything new.