Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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314. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when does he anticipate the findings of the NGI consultation and the second CEPA consultation of the energy security review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23671/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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The Department engaged CEPA (Cambridge Economic Policy Associates Ltd) in December 2024 to update their previous modelling which informed the Energy Security Package in 2023.

The aim of this additional modelling is to update the analysis of security of supply in Ireland’s electricity and natural gas systems in 2035 and 2040, using the latest available data (previous analysis covered the period up to 2030) and assess Ireland's ability to meet the N-1 infrastructure standard for gas with and without additional mitigations into the next decade.

This analysis concludes that, in relation to meeting the N-1 standard, Ireland would not meet the N-1 infrastructure standard for gas during the 2030s based on the assumptions around the evolution of gas demand and supply made in their analysis, and that with the addition of a Floating Storage and Regassification Unit the standard would be met.

My Department intends to publish both the Gas Networks Ireland preliminary business case proposals and the updated CEPA modelling in due course.