Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

If Deputy Colreavy worked at it, he could not get the wrong end of the stick more perfectly than he has done there. How in the name of heaven can we agree a strike price until we know exactly what it is that we are trading? There is no template for this and nothing has been done.

Not one single turbine has been erected and no irrevocable commitments have been entered into. Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. The financial terms are obviously at the heart of this issue. I do not know from where Sinn Féin's hostility to trading energy supplies with Britain comes. I have been told that the Sinn Féin Party does not have a difficulty in trading beef, pork, computers and so on with Britain. What is the problem with trading green energy supplies with it if it is economic for us to do so? We will assess whether it is economic for us to do so when the terms are agreed to.

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