John Whelan (Labour)

I am in favour of renewable energy. I know the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, has a difficult task to ensure energy security and sustainability and to take the future carbon issue into account but this will not fly and I call on the Leader, to have an up-front and honest debate on the question of energy provision and transmission at the earliest juncture with the Minister responsible for energy, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, so that this House can get to the bottom of the situation. People are promising pie in the sky jobs but nobody is explaining how this is possible without covering the entire country or all of rural Ireland in pylons and power lines.