David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has already alluded to our living in very unusual times. I put it to the Minister that we have an infrastructure in place which is an undersea pipeline and associated infrastructure on land which was used to transport the gas from the now-depleted undersea caverns.

Has the Minister considered using this infrastructure for floating storage regasification units? These could be used to alleviate our storage issue, which was mentioned earlier as part of the recently published report. Has he engaged with any suggestion with respect to this? Has he been asked to engage by any company with respect to that proposal? Does he agree with me it is worth considering and examining acquiring a floating storage regasification unit attached to the end of the pipeline that could store gas that could be hooked into our system. It would be LNG that did not come from fracking. It would not increase the amount of gas we use but would give us some insurance in the event of the other supplies being reduced.

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