Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

-----Deputy Varadkar would see that when the wind blows, it brings down the market price of electricity. The reason I am surprised at the Deputy's position is that over the past four to five years, such has been the benefit of Ireland's switching to wind that it has derived more than €250 million in a subsidy from wind that has helped to avoid having a higher PSO in the peat-fired power plans and elsewhere. Wind has subsidised our system and is the best protection and the best way to bring down prices in Ireland.

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