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

I reiterate that the Minister is not being explicit and is not clearing up the ambiguity. He is saying that we may well need some form of new fossil fuel infrastructure to store gas. He knows as well as I and anybody else in the House who takes any interest in the science does that it does not matter whether it is fracked gas or any other kinds of gas, it still emits methane and far too much CO2 due to storage and use. We do not need any more fossil fuel infrastructure. We do not have a shortage of gas. We need to build on renewables. The Minister has been in Europe doing that, but he needs to explicitly state what his intentions are. He may have said that the world has changed because of the war and so on, but apparently he also said Ireland may need to build an LNG terminal. Can he please clarify that and rule it out completely? Is he in a position to indicate that he will not reverse the policy of the Government or his party or the demand of the climate movement that there will be no new fossil fuel infrastructure in this country?

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