Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. I am sure that, like the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, the Taoiseach is aware that tomorrow the LNG project in Shannon, namely, the fracked gas project, is to be ratified on the list of projects of common interest, PCI, in the European Union. Sweden has pulled its LNG project from the list of PCIs. I appeal to the Taoiseach to listen to the scientists and not proceed with the fracked gas terminal to be located at Shannon if we sign off on the list. The Taoiseach has one day to make this decision, about which people are protesting to him via email and outside Leinster House. People are calling on him to listen to the science and not use fracked gas from North America and to pull the LNG project in Shannon from the PCI list. As I said, he has only one day to make up his mind and follow the example of Sweden.

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