Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his opening statement. I want to ask about the policy relating to data centres. I have listened to the exchanges so far. I presume that the Government has a plan for the sustainable development of data centres. I have a couple of questions on this. What is the policy on direct gas supplies for data centres? In view of the time constraints, perhaps the Minister could focus on that. Will he address the issue of electricity demand more generally and that of water supplies? In my county, the data centre in Clonee used 659 megalitres of water in 2023. This is more than any other data centre in the family of Meta data centres. How does the Minister and the Government propose to deal with those massive resource demands within the sector in a sustainable way when the challenge seems so incredible?