Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. I still think the door is being held open. There is still creative ambiguity in the Minister's response. The Business Postreported last week that the Minister had conceded that Ireland needed to build an LNG terminal. This would be a reversal of a key policy of the Green Party because, as the Minister said, the world changed when the Nord Stream gas pipeline was blown up last year.

Most people who are concerned about climate change believe that the basic premise we follow is the science, the IPCC and what scientists globally are telling us to do. We do not need, nor can we afford to have, any new fossil fuel infrastructure built in this State or anywhere else. The ambiguity in the response is that the Minister may be hinting at the idea of a non-commercial State-led LNG terminal as against a commercial enterprise. That makes no difference to the atmosphere, climate and science. Who am I telling? The Minister knows this too well. I ask him to clear up the ambiguity.

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