Maritime Jurisdiction
Dail Éireann — 2022-10-06
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Simon Coveney (FG), Cork South-Central

We are having the appropriate conversations with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. We are also speaking to the infrastructure owners so that we can respond with the capacity that is available to us in an appropriate way that manages risk. That is about as much as I can say for now. The attacks on Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 surprised a lot of people. They came out of nowhere. We still do not have any certainty as to who is responsible. We are pretty sure the two pipelines were deliberately sabotaged by a state actor. However, let us not overreact. Of course, we need to do what is appropriate to manage the risk to infrastructure within our exclusive economic zone and sovereign territory. As I have said, those conversations are taking place and will continue but the attacks on Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 only happened in the last ten days. We are having the appropriate follow-up meetings between the relevant Departments now.

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Sitting date: 2022-10-06