David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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My time is up so I wish our guests well with the strategy, which is really exciting. The strategy has recently been published and my only criticism is that the Department needs to publicise it more. The strategy contains such good and exciting stuff that I think a lot of our schools, colleges, industrialists, business people and ordinary citizens would be interested to see the thinking behind this and where it is going. The bottom line is the cost to the consumer. All of this will mean that the consumer will pay less for energy and, as somebody has said, we might eventually be a Saudi Arabia of wind energy eventually and maybe generate relatively cheap energy from wind, which does not cost anything except the technology to make it happen. I thank our guests for their responses.