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
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
PR6, as Deputy Whitmore rightly stated, outlines what that is grounded on - development over this five-year period. That is very clear over the five-year period. On the data centre side, it deals with those with existing connections. We have to look past that, because these projects - not just data centres but larger companies as well - will have a three-, five- to seven-year outlook as to future developments with planning and that kind of thing. We have to set that roadmap forward, but the big focus in this period is grid resilience which we saw the absolute need for during and post-storm Éowyn. There is also the further investment needed to underpin the development we know is happening during the five-year period such as schools, houses and, yes, more data but that is at 21% to 30%.
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