Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 November 2022

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary)

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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How does paying data centres for their energy usage tally, correlate or cohere with the Government's rhetorical commitment to act on climate change? We are keeping Moneypoint open on fossil fuels in order to provide electricity for data centres, which use more electricity than all the rural homes in Ireland combined. Is that not a deep incoherence in policy?