Paddy Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am grateful for the opportunity to say a few words on this important Bill.

I, too, would like to voice my opinion on the rushing of this legislation. It happens every summer and at Christmas time and I often wonder why.

In relation to data centres, the biggest companies in the world are employing thousands of people in this country and the vast majority of them are producing data. Why should we not have our fair share of the data centres producing data? There is an onus on us in that regard. Do we want all the Third World countries to have all the data centres?