Fiona O'Malley (Dún Laoghaire, Progressive Democrats)

I welcome the publication of the Green Paper on energy. Energy is the most exciting political challenge we face, not only on a national basis but also internationally. Dealing with the energy challenge affords us the opportunity to become statespeople and play out parish pump politics in other areas. We heard evidence of this in the contributions of the previous two speakers.

The question concerns the international energy challenge.

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