Naoise Ó Muirí (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the Minister of State's comments. I welcome the news that temporary emergency generation capacity has got to four power stations, two in Dublin and two down the country. I also welcome the IEA’s study of our electricity security with regard to energy transition. The one point I want to repeat concerns the European experience. We were very happy to welcome, and it was great to see, crews coming in from France, Germany, Austria and the UK during Storm Éowyn as a response to that incident and the clean-up and restoration work that was required. We need to do something similar in reverse given what has happened in Spain and Portugal. We need to find a way to learn, if there is anything to learn from what has happened there. I do not know what that mechanism is, how we share that information or what level of co-operation there is. Perhaps it is down to encouraging EirGrid to look internationally and to contact the commission. I again thank the Minister of State for taking this item. It is an issue that will get more and more important in the years to come.

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