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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...considering some gas storage? How do we minimise the risk that measures we take now to enhance security will embed bad trends for the longer term? For example, have other countries that have created LNG storage capacity made those facilities storage-only, are they run by the state and preserved in aspic, so to speak, until they are needed or are they commercially operating LNG terminals...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...is that the existing availability of such infrastructure can be massively disrupted. On a path to net zero, what are the best options open to us? Professor McMullin says further investment in LNG will be a distraction for Europe but there has been a lot of it in recent months and it seems to have stabilised a difficult supply situation. I wonder if that is a fair assessment. Europe has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Richard Bruton: ..., whether we can see a pathway to more effective delivery of some of these large-scale projects, which are crucial to the transition, on the most cost-effective and environmentally sound basis? Is LNG storage in other European countries an option that is being considered?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (7 Apr 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...When does he think it would be appropriate for Ireland to develop a hydrogen strategy? What is his view on the attitude of the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, which has indicated that LNG could be part of a strategy to develop a hydrogen sector and that we should not close our minds to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Challenges: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. As part of this, do we need to look much more deeply at how we approach this? It seems there is a bit of an ideological hang-up on whether we have an LNG facility, when the elephant in the room is the fact that a lot of our sectors are deeply entrenched in such a way that we are not really shifting them by current policy. As an allied point,...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...again is our gas security. Can the Corrib field be drawn on to supplement our supply at this time of very great difficulties or is its output fixed? Is the traditional position of opposition to LNG up for review in the context of energy security or is it unchanged? What is the Minister's view on the short-term contingency measures that may have to be prepared for in the context of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...pick one source of demand and put a moratorium on it, while treating others in a different way without an apparent economic, social or any other model underpinning it. The next issue is whether LNG offers some security for a system that is going to be gas-dependent, at least in the medium term. As I understand it, Professor McMullin's argument is that LNG in some cases, namely, fracked...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...else must take the initiative before you ask me to do anything", which is what I hear continuously here. I regard it as climate cynicism. It is about "the data centres must do something or LNG must do something". There is always someone else who must do something before people will face their own responsibilities.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...to allow infrastructure to be built, such as the pure illusion that only the enterprise sector need take up the slack in making the changes, or such as claiming that banning liquefied natural gas, LNG, will reduce our emissions. It will not reduce our emissions by a single gram. Too many of the responses I have heard on this Bill from politicians embrace the principle of environmental...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (9 Jun 2020)

Richard Bruton: The project to which to Deputy refers, the Shannon LNG project, is a commercial project and the location, development and final investment decision for this project is the responsibility of the project promoters. It is the responsibility of the project promoters to comply with all legal, planning and regulatory requirements. My Department is carrying out a review of the security...

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Richard Bruton: ...Bord na Móna. Currently we do not get recognition in the immediate term. We could plant to our heart's content, but we would only get recognition for it from 2030 onwards. With regard to the LNG terminal, I have always said that we would not support it until a security evaluation is done. I believe policy is moving on and people recognise LNG will not have a place, but that is...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Richard Bruton: ..., such as EirGrid, in order that we can understand the concerns before setting the terms. Contrary to what was stated earlier, it is in recognition of the concerns raised, such as in respect of LNG, that we want to ensure it will be assessed. I have committed that we will not support an LNG project until we are content that the sustainability and security review has been dealt with. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Natural Gas Imports (28 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: I am undertaking an evaluation of the role that gas should have, in particular LNG. In the interim, I have signalled very clearly that the Government will not support such a project in any way. However, being able to stop a private sector project going through the planning process is not a power available to the Government, nor is the power to block its importation. I understand that is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Natural Gas Imports (28 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy will be aware and as I have stated clearly, I will not support any funding for the proposed LNG terminals unless and until I am satisfied they pass the sustainability and security review I am putting in place. She has to be aware that the LNG projects, including that at Shannon, have been proposed by commercial developers. They are private sector projects and final investment...

Seanad: Climate Action: Statements (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...progress, there will be a knock-on effect on the sector concerned. We will see real accountability which the Senator is right to demand. The issue that has generated the most heat is that of LNG. I must explain that LNG can be extracted through fracking or otherwise. This applies to the supplies imported from Scotland. Fracked gas can form part of any delivery. The Shannon LNG...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (5 Nov 2019)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 843 and 845 together. The Shannon LNG project to which the Deputies refer has been designated as a project of common interest for the last 6 years. It was designated as a project of common interest in 2013 and again in 2015, and 2017. It has been supported by Ireland since 2013 as it would enhance Ireland’s energy security by increasing import route...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure. At the meeting of 4 October 2019 which considered the 4th PCI list, Ireland enquired from the EU Commission whether the implications of importing LNG to the European Union, from conventional and unconventional fracked sources, have been examined in terms of a sustainable, secure and competitive European energy policy. The Commission...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Hydraulic Fracturing (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: ..., I instructed my officials to enquire from the EU Commission at the PCI selection process High Level Decision Making Body meeting in Brussels on 4 October whether the implications of importing LNG to the European Union, from conventional and unconventional fracked sources, have been examined in terms of a sustainable, secure and competitive European energy policy. The Commission advised...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (10 Oct 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...;t blowing and the sun isn’t shining, the role for battery storage and the role for gas powered back up; the role of interconnection (both gas and electricity); and other ways to back up our power supply. The Shannon LNG project is a private commercial project and any decisions on the future development of this project are matters for the project promoter. This has been designated...