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

We are just about to start our first auction process for the first of seven offshore projects which, subject to getting to consent and going through the planning system, will be built this decade and will deliver in time for us to meet the second of our three carbon budgets. We will set, as I set out in my convention speech, really ambitious targets, including 5 GW of solar power that we want to deliver in the next three years. The ESB could not do it, full stop - not a chance. That means we would not meet our climate targets. If we were to accept this motion, we would be giving up on the climate change agenda, and I do not see for what. For an ideological position that this has to be done only by the ESB? I do not agree.

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