Michael Harty (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am the acting leader today. On budget 2020 and the legislation that will flow from it, there is a proposal to set up a just transition fund of €6 million to help communities to move away from high carbon sources of energy to low sources, which is a reference to peat and coal burning stations. The fund is to be used to mitigate the significant affects on workers and local communities as the transition happens. However, It is to be confined to peat burning stations in the midlands and will not apply to the Moneypoint plant in west Clare. Will the Taoiseach and the Government consider extending the just transition fund to the Moneypoint plant and surrounding communities and workers who will also experience the economic shock as we move to low carbon energy production.

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