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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: ...significantly slower progress than needed on many fronts, like onshore wind, offshore wind, electric vehicles, district heating and the use of biomethane, not to mention the impact of the new LNG fossil fuel terminals the Government is promoting and the data centres that are not required to use renewable energy. We are told all the time that money is no object to our taking action on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jul 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Mike Kennelly: ...is good. Second, I am looking for clarity and urgency on a matter that is not just critical for the north Kerry area, where I come from, but for national energy security and the status of the LNG project. As we all know, Ireland currently has no gas storage solution. That is an extraordinary and, frankly, unsustainable position for any modern economy, especially at a time when...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025) See 14 other results from this debate

Malcolm Noonan: ...Change Advisory Council has stated clearly there should be no new fossil fuel infrastructure by 2039. In the Minister’s view, does that rule out the need or economic cost of developing public LNG infrastructure in Ireland?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Jennifer Whitmore: And the LNG issue.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reports (1 Jul 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Roderic O'Gorman: 183. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will commission an independent risk-assessment of introducing Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) infrastructure into Ireland given the recent comments by Predator Oil and Gas CEO, Paul Griffiths, in relation to the risk of such a facility exploding, such as the 2022 Freeport LNG vapour cloud explosion in Texas; and if he...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025) See 8 other results from this debate

Ciarán Ahern: ...2039 and this being an absolute imperative. Is the Government's decision to overturn its policy on the importation of fracked gas and the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure by way of LNG terminals compatible with our imperative phase-out of fossils fuels by 2039? Has the council had any engagement with the Minister in relation to this change of policy and how it impacts on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...consume much more energy than the typical data centre. How will the Government strike this balance? Will it prioritise housing over data centres when it comes to connections or will it step up LNG-fuelled electricity production to make up the difference and, as such, annihilate our climate targets?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Usage (10 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: ...through the Government's pursuit of road over rail and obsession with energy hungry data centres. There is change in policy on fracked gas and the green light was given for liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminals and increased fire powered generation. I call on the Minister again to change course.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Infrastructure (10 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 110. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the State's position regarding an LNG terminal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30068/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Infrastructure (10 Jun 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Jennifer Whitmore: 131. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he or his Department officials have met with private bodies interested in pursuing a commercial LNG facility in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30069/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 236. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify the Government’s position regarding LNG and address a number of matters (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29931/25]

Planning and Development (Exempted Development – External Wall Insulation) Bill 2025: First Stage (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: ...January, it has reneged on previous Government commitments to introduce minimum BER standards for the private rental sector. It has reneged on banning imports of fracked gas and is now welcoming in fracked LNG from the US. It is trying to overturn the moratorium on constructing new data centres in the Dublin area and turning Ireland into a Wild West for the uncontrolled fossil-fuelled...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Ivana Bacik: ...clean renewables and polluting fossil fuels. On Monday, Friends of the Irish Environment was granted leave for judicial review proceedings in respect of the Shannon liquefied natural gas, LNG, development. I am mindful not to comment on matters that are live before the courts, but Government policies on LNG are something about which the Taoiseach and I have spoken often. Our climate...

Restoration of Private Members' Bills: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2025)

Denise Mitchell: ... Order for Committee Stage Ged Nash Planning and Development (Amendment) (Repeal of Part V Leasing) Bill 2021 Order for Committee Stage Rory Hearne Planning and Development (Liquefied Natural Gas - LNG) (Amendment) Bill 2022 Second Stage Roderic O'Gorman Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses)...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Pa Daly: ...to our energy security and climate ambition. What obligations are there going to be on companies that are promoting data centre expansion to ensure renewables are available? As the Government eyes up LNG in a move that it considers necessary, and we will see what happens with the reports that are pending, we must ask ourselves what is really happening here and what is the ultimate...

Seanad: Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (29 Apr 2025) See 4 other results from this debate

PJ Murphy: ...is our responsibility to honour and integrate these needs into our planning efforts. In terms of energy security infrastructure, my colleague, Senator Kennelly, will speak in more detail on the LNG terminal proposal. I am also delighted to see that this amended plan makes specific reference to the Galway wastewater strategy, which covers the city and areas such as Moycullen and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Natural Gas Imports (29 Apr 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Ciarán Ahern: ..., Climate Action and Environment if he will ban imported fracked gas in Ireland, given the fact that in the High Court judgment [2024] IEHC 555 concerning the planning application for Shannon LNG it is noted that “the Proposed Development does not depend on fracked gas and the Applicant is confident it can source gas from non-fracked sources; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (29 Apr 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: ...for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the analysis of the UK’s North Sea Transition Authority to the effect that the additional energy requirements associated with LNG relative to natural gas supplies, including the additional energy expended on liquification, transport and regasification, mean that LNG imports are on average over double the emission...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (29 Apr 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Ciarán Ahern: ...to Parliamentary Question 2 of 10 April 2025, if he accepts that given An Bord Pleanála’s requirement to ‘have regard’ to Government policy, his decision to overturn the moratorium on LNG introduced in 2021 has been the primary impetus behind Shannon LNG receiving planning approval to construct a permanent terminal after initially being refused on the basis of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: ...at an increasingly privatised energy system where we pay through the nose for data centres to burn gas in onsite gas power plants. That is linked to the discussion we have already had about LNG. This is, of course, likely going to be fuelled by fracked US LNG.

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