Energy Policy
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-08
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Darren O'Rourke (SF), Meath East

I presume public consultation will not help those projects that are currently in the system and are due to deliver in the middle of next year. I ask the Minister to give us some assurance on that and what type of intervention might be needed to move that on.
One of the issues Mr. McCarthy is dealing with is data centres. I understand that a number of weeks ago the Minister wrote to Gas Networks Ireland, GNI, and asked it not to enter into any more contracts with gas dependent data centres. There was a question mark over whether legislation would be needed to give effect to that decision. Can the Minister provide an update on that situation? Is legislation needed? Will the Minister bring it forward?

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Sitting date: 2022-11-08