Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I will hone in on one element, namely, the State-led liquified natural gas, LNG, storage capacity. How will the Minister ensure that the relevant entity and its infrastructure will be fully controlled by the State? My understanding is that it is expected that it could be along the lines of a public private partnership, PPP. We have seen with PPPs across the country that while the intention might have been to have State control, in many instances this has not been the case. When the Minister asks Gas Networks Ireland, GNI, to investigate this, what parameters is he giving it to ensure that the entity will be 100% State-owned? That needs to be the case so that people have trust that this will be a very temporary and only a transitional facility, and also that we have control over what gas is going in there and where that gas is coming from.

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