Tony Gregory (Dublin Central, Independent)

It is gone past the time to say stop. We demand a total freeze on the issuing of any further exploration licences. We demand the establishment of a publicly owned gas and oil exploration and recovery agency, independent of the multinational gas and oil conglomerates. We demand the recognition of the fundamental principle that the oil and gas resources off our coast belong to the Irish people and must be recovered and used in a way that benefits the majority of the Irish people.

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