Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I was interested in that point, given that we are possibly meeting with a committee from Turkey, possibly in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. I was interested to hear the ambassador's view on that but that is a work in progress from where he is coming. There has been a change of view in Sweden, which has been in the public domain. A lot of people have probably changed their views on many things, given the set of circumstances in which we find ourselves.

One of those major things is as follows. I am always uneasy about making points like this and I accept that every state has a right to make its own decisions.

I am not sure we necessarily want to see situations where people lock themselves into nuclear energy, while accepting there is currently a considerable amount of production of nuclear energy across Europe. We really need to see those game changer moves in the context of renewables. That has to be a priority. Here, it has been a failing across the board, given the nature of the island of Ireland and the amount of offshore wind capacity we should have. That has to be rectified; we have no choice in that regard. Where does that sit in terms of Sweden’s priorities for the Presidency and, beyond that, for Sweden itself? Scandinavian countries have a reasonable history in terms of state involvement in energy production and whatever else.