Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Time and again the Minister has told the House that the justification for a low tax regime on oil and for licensing arrangements whereby ownership of our gas and oil reserves has effectively been handed over to oil companies is that we only have potential reserves, not actual reserves. If that is the case, could he explain how this jar of light crude oil, just a small sample taken from a tanker-----

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