Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

"Yes" is the answer to that. We are going to have to expedite everything. However, I do not want to hold out false hope. My understanding, without having come to a conclusion yet, is that there are technical issues not just for the pipeline, which will be decommissioned, but also around the amount of cushion gas that would have to be put into that field and its geological formation. It is not certain that either of those Cork fields will be ideal for gas. That is some of the advice I am hearing. We will have to conclude that analysis quickly as part of that European gas storage initiative.

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