Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 1438: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Ireland's total energy import dependency on the UK, in the context of SEI's announcement in December 2007 that the overall energy import dependency has reached91%. [1178/08]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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Sustainable Energy Ireland advises that in 2006, the latest year for which full statistics are available, 66% of Ireland's total energy requirement was imported from the UK. Ireland's total energy import dependency was just over 90% in 2006.

Oil represents 63% and gas 35% of the quantity of fuel imported from the UK. It is also the case that 90% of Ireland's gas supply is imported from the UK. These statistics underline the urgent challenge for Ireland in terms of security of supply, competitiveness and sustainability and I am committed to expediting the actions under the Energy Policy Framework and the Programme for Government to address these challenges.