Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

Various sectors are excluded from stream 2. There is a reference somewhere here, which I cannot find now, to adult entertainment and the gambling sector, both of which are excluded. Enterprise Ireland has not chosen to exclude data centres, while speaking about the need for decarbonisation and while the Taoiseach yesterday uttered great words: "Our citizens will become increasingly cynical, weary and hopeless if words are not urgently matched by deeds; if commitments do not generate new realities." Why has Enterprise Ireland not excluded data centres, given that their contributions to our total energy use is 17% at this stage? Is it not entirely contradictory to the idea of decarbonisation to have more public money funnelled to data centres?