Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 October 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites

9:30 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

These are policy issues to an extent. I will just repeat what the Minister said in the Dáil recently when he said he did not believe that a moratorium was appropriate. I think we need to look at this in the round. I do not want to give the Deputy an idea for a moment that we are kicking the can down the road on this specific issue because we are not. There will be a decision by the regulator on a revised connection policy on data centres by the end of the year. We will move really quickly to revise the 2018 policy statement. We have identified a suite of measures that have been articulated in the public domain by the regulator and by EirGrid, and, like every set of measures, they are constantly reviewed. We are meeting with the regulator and asking where they are at, what is happening now and what steps need to be taken. There is very strong governance in place so it is not-----

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