Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Offaly, Fine Gael)
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This is a critical issue. If we have to wait on research, how do we continue to function as a society without electricity? We have to reduce what we use and industry is working with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to reduce that, with some degree of success. What do we do? How do we back up what we require, even if we take all the actions that have been mentioned? We will still need to generate a certain amount of energy. How will we do that without fracked gas?

A battery storage facility is planned for Offaly, run by a local company which will be experimenting with flywheel technology. How much capacity does that have to provide security for us in terms of storage?