Peter Kelly (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)

Ireland has come a long way on energy security and energy reform in a few short years. Fianna Fáil in Government, together with our partners in the Green Party, has introduced a wide range of initiatives aimed at enhancing conservation, supporting renewable resources and developing proper infrastructure. Faced with a peak in global oil production, it is not possible to sustain our national consumption of 165,000 barrels of oil per day. We must act now in order to ensure that we have a sustainable energy future, so what do we do?

We must ensure that we have enough oil in stock. That is why we have given the new National Oil Reserves Agency extra resources to create greater storage facilities. These will come on stream in the next three years.

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