Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

If GNI is being tasked with the investigation and examination of this, and I assume the operation of it as well, does the Minister have confidence that it gets the whole area of climate? GNI was giving connections for islanded data centres, which is completely in non-compliance with our climate obligations. The Minister wrote to GNI last year and asked it to stop that. The fact is that he had to ask GNI to stop it, and it is a year down the road and it still not 100% the case. GNI is still connecting thousands upon thousands of homes to the gas network. This concept of reducing the use of gas in order that it is only a transitional resource is not quite within its remit yet. I am wondering whether the Minister has any concerns about whether Government policy in relation to meeting our climate objectives is also a key policy of GNI, and whether it will fulfil the obligations and needs of the Minister and those of the State in this regard.

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