Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 14:

In page 30, line 39, after "to" where it secondly occurs to insert "increase security of supply of transport fuels".

This amendment was grouped with amendment No. 4 and others but it was not taken with them. I will not make a big deal about this one. The purpose of this amendment is to try to get security of supply issues into the transport fuel debate. We spend a great deal of time here discussing security of supply and the Minister's Department spends a great deal of time trying to resolve issues around gas storage, oil storage and interconnection for security of supply and often we miss the point when it comes to security of supply for transport fuel because we import all of that too. In fact, we import more of that than in the case of electricity generation because we import practically everything for transport fuels, apart from the small amount of biofuel produced here. I thought it appropriate to put the security of supply issue into this legislation in page 30 under the biofuels standards. I hope the Minister will consider that.

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