Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Government's position on that has been very clear. It does not favour its continuation or any State support for its continuation. The Government yesterday published the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill, which is probably one of the most far-reaching in Europe in terms of legislating for climate change and dealing with the challenge.

On the LNG issue, since the mid-2000s various applications have been made in respect of that proposal, none of which has come to fruition to date. I am not clear on the status of the current application, but suffice to say, our future is not in fossil fuels. Our future is in renewables, energy efficiency and a whole new green economy that will emerge from that. That is where Government investment will go.

It will go into the national retrofit programme and offshore wind. Wind energy will make up as much as 70% of our electricity supply.

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