Grace O'Sullivan (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I was interested to hear Senator McDowell say he felt he was misled. I am very surprised that someone like him would feel misled. Given his many years' experience and professional capability to scrutinise I am shocked to hear that. However, I absolutely support his request for the Minister to come to the House to discuss our inability to curb Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions.

I wish to raise another issue related to energy - the Chernobyl accident in 1986. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has just spent €2.1 billion on a casing to put over the site of the Chernobyl accident. People might remember that the radioactive fallout from the site was the world's worst civil nuclear accident. It spread across three quarters of Europe and prompted a global rethink about safety of atomic fuel.I urge the Government to look at renewable clean energies as our path to supplying energy for Ireland and Europe and to stay away from the nuclear industry because of the dangers that are still being felt today as a result of the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986.