Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment

2:00 am

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Absolutely. They are using it for a reason, namely, to hold the data we, our businesses and all our people use. Many of these are companies with European headquarters here that employ tens of thousands of people. Other countries in Europe would give their right arm to have the footprint we have with regard to data in this country. We are managing it carefully. Deputy Cronin makes a fair point. The grid connection agreements are decided independently of us and grid connection agreements have been refused. Our challenge is to expand our grid capacity, both in generation and distribution, and we will do that.

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