Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

The Minister, the leader of the Green Party, is saying he is in favour of this. An LNG terminal is an LNG terminal. Okay, it is a floating LNG terminal rather than an LNG terminal on land. The Minister may say this will not lead to any more reliance on fossil fuels and so on, but I do not understand why that would be that the case. The energy security review explicitly states that this can have private involvement or even be a public-private partnership. How is this different from a commercial LNG terminal like Shannon LNG rejected by An Bord Pleanála only a few months before the energy security review was published? Safety Before LNG wrote to me to say, "We move from the moratorium on LNG terminals and a policy against fracked gas imports which helped get the Greens into power to a non-commercial LNG terminal which would be state owned, diluted down even more to an LNG terminal that would be state controlled to the now vague state-led LNG terminal which the energy strategy defines as commissioned by the state." It walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. The Minister is talking about an LNG terminal and it goes against the previous programme he stood for.

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