Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

They will not be taking renewable energy that reduces its availability to homes. We will have a surplus of renewable power by the end of this decade of some 13 TWh. We need to find industrial applications where we can use that to the benefit of our people and our country.

This summer the CRU will publish its guidelines on connections for large industry users, which includes data centres. That will set out some of the mechanisms that we will apply. There is a real issue-----