Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In Norway, one in seven explorations is a commercially viable strike. That is the difference. In this country, the strike rate is somewhere between one in 40 and one in 47. I cannot be sure. I cannot remember exactly but there is a distinct difference. Given that reductions in the use of oil and other fossil fuels will be debated at the climate change talks in Paris next week, I cannot understand for one moment how it is presumed that the oil companies have hidden resources off our shores that are waiting to be tapped at some stage in the future. Are the oil companies going to cod the Irish people?

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