Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

I will wind up at this point. CER's gas capacity statement and EirGrid's generation adequacy report project seven and five years into the future respectively. These are more realistic timeframes for us to deal with. There is no basis in reality for business plans that stretch 34 and 44 years into the future.

I have been as fair as possible in accepting the spirit of the amendments put forward by the Deputies and I ask them to accept the amendments I have proposed.

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