Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is hard for me to see how that could be true but I am not going to dismiss any argument on my feet here.

These are the kinds of issues that it would be helpful for the Oireachtas joint committee - it is not my role to say what the Oireachtas joint committee should do - to have witnesses in, for example, Dr. White of the sustainable energy authority and all the others who are involved in this issue, and question and cross-examine them as witnesses, and let us all try to get to the evidence on all of these arguments. If a case is made, if somebody writes an opinion editorial in The Irish Timesone day and there is another the next day that one misses, or someone writes a letter to the newspaper with the opposite argument, it would be better for the committee to pull together systematically all of the arguments being made, perhaps cross-examine the witnesses in that way and see where we go.

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