Cabinet Committees
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-01
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Mattie McGrath (IND), Tipperary

Does the Taoiseach accept that Ireland's energy security policies are failing Ireland and they are more in tune with the green agenda of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and others? Does he acknowledge that the policies are driving up the costs of food, electricity, petrol and diesel and gach rud mar sin for Irish citizens? While governments around the world are granting new oil and gas exploration licences to ensure cheaper energy for their citizens, Ireland's Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has effectively closed this option down. This is having a detrimental effect. We have to accept that four fifths of energy worldwide comes from fossil fuels and we just cannot get over that fact at this point in time. We cannot be the outliers here in saving the world while we are penalising our citizens, small businesses and everybody else in an enormous way and putting them into penury. It is just not doable and it is a policy that is bringing us into deeper failure and síos an cul de sac mór.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-01