Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are okay. The rain is afraid of Deputy McGrath. There would be some puddle if the rain fell on him.

The Minister and everybody in the House is well aware that the midlands has paid a massive price with the escalation of decarbonisation and the forced closure of two peat-generated power plants and the Bord na Móna peat harvesting operation. It would be a terrible and further slight on the people of Longford if the former power station in Lanesborough was not considered as one of the locations for these emergency power plants. It provides much of the necessary infrastructure and a necessary connection to the grid.

If the energy crisis is to have any commercial or job opportunity windfall, it is only right that County Longford share in that.

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