Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will just ask the other ones. What is going to supply the grid if, as we say, the wind slows down? Are we going to be able to store the electricity from the wind farms? I am not sure that we can. One talks about reskilling workers but for what? What are the jobs that one is talking about? What jobs are we going to put people into? It is fine to say they will be reskilled, but what jobs do we have for them? I want to know. That is the question I have been asking. The retrofitting of houses is grand and we would all like that for everyone. Is it just buying people to get them off one's back so that they will not complain too much? I think this is terrible, and when we actually hear that the Chinese are drawing coal from Poland and they cannot stack it quickly enough on the land so are stacking it in the sea. This is what is happening in Ireland, closing down whatever bit of fuel and energy that we had of our own, set up in the 1930s and 1940s by politicians who would be turning in their graves if they could see what was going on in our country.