Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Kieran Bristow:

If I may intervene, we take the Deputy's point on the hospital, but if we consider the large software companies based here, they are setting up very large server farms, for example, that consume very large amounts of electricity. Generally, they are trying to do it with alternative energy, which we would support, but as Ms Joyce said, they may also require some back-up or access to gas-based energy.