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

There is a meeting on Thursday of Justice and Home Affairs ministers and so on. That is not to undermine any other issue. I am just making the point.

On Deputy Danny Healy-Rae's point, the Topical Issue Debate is available to him to raise the matter of Shannon LNG, if he so wishes. We work with Norway and the UK on gas supplies. We are very clear as a Government that gas is an essential transitional fuel to back up our efforts in renewables. That will continue. Luckily, with the Corrib field, we provide sufficient gas from our own resources.

We have not abolished Bord na Mona. I heard the Deputy say that. Is he oblivious to the extraordinary work that it is doing with regard to climate change in the context of wind and renewable energy and a range of other activities, providing employment and so forth?

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