Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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There is one paragraph on which we should seek more detail. It is on the second page and starts with, "The statement also acknowledges that as large customers of electricity, data centres also pose challenges". It goes on to talk about energy and states that "the Government will seek to ensure that any downside costs of growing energy demand are minimised by encouraging data centre investment in regions where we have infrastructure capacity to facilitate investments". Regarding that statement, can we ask the Department what analysis was done in that regard and what detail was being worked from? This statement is asking us to trust its interpretation, but I would like to see the evidence.