John Kelly (Labour) | Oireachtas source

For a long time many economists, including Colm McCarthy whom the Government is happy to reference and quote on a regular basis, have referred to the wind energy strategy as economic lunacy, a disaster and not financially viable. The previous Government was warned by the same economists that we were in a property bubble. It did not listen and it cost taxpayers €64 billion. The wind energy strategy has the potential to cause an even bigger crash in the very near future. Will the Leader bring the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to the House to prove to us that the wind energy strategy is economically viable? We need to see the figures and start listening to the same economists who tried to advise the previous Government.