Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I take the Deputy's point that we need to look at how we can provide guidance - probably stronger than nudging - to help to deepen the resilience he is referring to. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is looking at different ways in which this could be done. I know that the challenges we are facing at the moment with the price and availability of energy are very serious. As the Deputy knows, really important changes happened in the years after the last great energy shock of the 1970s which opened up new sources of energy and changed the price of that energy. Likewise, from the Irish point of view, we need to intensify two things that we are doing. First, we need to take the kinds of steps the Deputy mentioned and which the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is working on to make better use of the energy that is available to us. Second, we need to go all out to make our country an exporter of clean energy to Europe and the world because we have the resources to do that.

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