Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the recent energy security report and the findings that a non-commercial LNG terminal, and not a commercial one, will be the way to go. I have stated that in this House previously.

The Minister of State mentioned that the memorandum of understanding is an EU memorandum of understanding and not an Irish one. We all know that because we are a member state, EU policy dictates the view or perception of where Ireland's position is. We have seen that with the Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, going out to Israel, and the damage that did to cohesion within the EU because she took a position that was contrary to that of the majority of member states. Has the Tánaiste raised the exclusion of the reference to the occupied territories with the European Commission? Has the Government expressed any concerns as to why suddenly now the clause is absent? Even if it is non-binding, there has to be a reason that clause was not included in the memorandum of understanding.