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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will oppose any form of LNG terminal in Ireland as unnecessary and environmentally damaging; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11039/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...he told the Dáil that this will also be used for periods when the wind is not blowing. That is not about security. Not Here Not Anywhere researched this and has not identified any floating LNG terminals which are currently used for the purpose the Minister is talking about. It identified a technical problem with keeping it liquefied. Keeping the gas liquefied requires the use...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will advocate against the proposal for a floating LNG in the energy security review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3396/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government says it does not make sense to develop LNG import terminals importing fracked gas. However, the energy security review is proposing a floating LNG terminal, and we all know it is not possible to verify whether LNG is fracked. Activist groups like Not Here Not Anywhere and Safety Before LNG are vehemently opposed to this and are determined to fight against it....

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...questions on foot of which I may or may not table amendments on Report Stage. Would the Minister of State be open to an amendment to say there would be no use of gas by the gas network from any LNG terminal? We should not be investing in further fossil fuel infrastructure, given the scale of the climate crisis. Would he support legislating for there being no further connections to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...to zero to halt climate catastrophe. Rather than tackling the root of the problem by banning the construction of more data centres, EirGrid's solution is to construct a liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal or multiple LNG terminals. Supposedly this is to serve as a back-up when the insatiable demand of data centres for electricity overwhelms the normal capacity of the grid. The CEO of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on the Circular Economy and COP27, including Climate Justice and Energy: Discussion (21 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...targets that are inadequate and now we are going to miss them. The Government, or large parts of it at least, is trying to push ahead with further fossil fuel infrastructure, in the form of LNG terminals, at a time of this climate emergency that we declared. It has overridden, undemocratically, the decision of South Dublin County Council to say it did not want any more data centres or...

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: ..., tying us into more and more years of environmental damage and increasing carbon emissions. This is not the answer. Some of the solutions put forward in the motion include acquiring an LNG terminal in either Cork harbour or the Shannon Estuary, repowering the controversial Derrybrien wind farm, and reopening power plants in the midlands to burn biomass, with this biomass sourced from...

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...fast throughout the cities and towns of Ireland. The other point I want to make is essential to this. I saw Patrick O'Donovan referenced as being on a radio station this morning saying we had to have Shannon LNG because the wind did not blow all the time etc. That is just a recipe for continuing with fossil fuel dependency. There should be no more fossil fuel infrastructure...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...is doing in driving ahead with the construction of additional data centres on top of what we already have here and the building of further fossil fuel infrastructure such as liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminals. This is completely at odds with the commitments the State has made under the Paris Agreement, its own promises, what was said today and what was said by the Taoiseach at the UN...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...was on the night of the budget because, while trying to claim a concern about the environment and that it is in some way in line with those who were protesting for radical action to stop climate catastrophe, it has pushed ahead with a plan for one of the biggest liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminals in Europe, at Shannon. 9 o’clock This is an investment of massive amounts of...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...and should not be invested in as an alternative to oil and coal. The Government which now states climate action is at the centre of its budget wants to invest in one of the biggest liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminals in Europe in Shannon. It is investing in fossil fuel infrastructure that will be with us for decades and not just any fossil fuel but one of the dirtiest in the form of...

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...green jobs as well. It is not accidental that such a distinction is being made at a time when the Government wants to push ahead, without any democratic oversight and with public money, with a massive LNG terminal. What is involved in that is not just any gas, but fracked gas, which is significantly extra-dirty gas, with significantly more carbon. It also represents significant health...

Climate Change: Statements (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...the further extraction of fossil fuels. There is no significant investment in renewable energy resources, even though it is clear that public investment is needed. The development of the Shannon LNG terminal is a further example of investment in fossil fuel infrastructure at a time when we need to be moving away from such infrastructure as part of a rapid and just transition to a zero...