Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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In all this rush, we need to be very careful. I am fully behind anyone who wants it away from his or her house. I do not want it near my house. When I hear of explosions and all this, I would not want it near elderly people's houses. I would not want it near anyone's house. We know what it is costing to build them. We know what it is even taking to get planning permission. Young fellows cannot get planning permission. It is easy for someone to say here that roads can be fixed. We have a big enough job fixing the roads we have. We have 600 local improvement scheme roads going into farm families and we have no money for them yet. I do not know when we will get it. That is just in County Kerry alone. I see this as another way to meet these targets that some geniuses thought out in Brussels or somewhere, and it was voted for in the Chamber by every Member except me. I did not vote for the target of 2030. I was the only Deputy in Dáil Éireann who voted not to accept it and the record will show that. I did not want the 2030 deadline because people are going to suffer along the way and the closer it gets, the more people are suffering. I am very worried about it. Is there one of these plants in the North of Ireland?