Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Electricity Generation and Export: Discussion

6:55 pm

Mr. Gabriel D'Arcy:

Hopefully, we will not. As I stated previously, Ireland has a lot of opportunity in this regard and it is important for all key elements to understand what is that opportunity, to communicate to the communities that are directly and indirectly involved and then to ensure we are on that horse when it bolts and that it is a sustainable horse that is going places. There is a shift under way in moving from a fossil-based energy system to a much less carbon-intensive system. In such an environment, Ireland disproportionately does better than those parts that have been benefiting-----