Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Everything from his side is purely oppositional for the sake of opposition. There is a serious global climate crisis. We are all aware of that and should be working together to accelerate the delivery of renewables. Gas demand will not start to decrease until approximately 2035. It will be a transitionary fuel. As I said to Deputies in response to earlier questions, we should compare the situation with where we have come from. There is now no peat in our energy system. From June, there will be no coal in our energy system. We are accelerating the delivery of onshore renewables. We want to see more wind and solar onshore and substantially more renewables offshore. We will have a real opportunity in the years to the end of this decade to make a significant step change in that regard. We are going to be investing heavily in our grid through price review 6, which will be coming to Government shortly. It will be the most substantial investment in our electricity grid in decades, if not ever, to bring onshore the offshore renewables that we will develop over the coming few years.

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