John Gerard Hanafin (Fianna Fail)

I ask the Leader for a debate on the use and misuse of figures by the media and the misuse of figures by groups that are agitating. In particular I refer to the wild claims of the Shell to Sea campaign that €540 billion - no less - was being taken by Shell in gas from off the Irish coast. It is amazing that 20% of the very same field was sold for €100 million. Somebody must be doing a very good deal or somebody is using wildly exaggerated-----