Ciarán Ahern (Dublin South West, Labour)
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271. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question 2 of 10 April 2025, if he accepts that given An Bord Pleanála’s requirement to ‘have regard’ to Government policy, his decision to overturn the moratorium on LNG introduced in 2021 has been the primary impetus behind Shannon LNG receiving planning approval to construct a permanent terminal after initially being refused on the basis of said moratorium, and that as a result of his plans to develop a State-led temporary floating LNG terminal he is actually locking Ireland into fossil fuel use for decades to come, noting that Paragraph 169 of the High Court judgment in Shannon LNG v. An Bord Pleanála states that “the new Government approved a plan to develop a State-led LNG terminal and terminated the former fracking policy in doing so” and that this was the basis for granting planning approval to Shannon LNG; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19523/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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The current planning application, referred to by the Deputy, from Shannon LNG, is a matter for An Bord Pleanála. Any application for fossil fuel infrastructure in Ireland will be subject to the planning, consenting and regulatory approvals by appropriate relevant bodies and the provision of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Acts 2015-2021 will apply.