Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2024-04-17
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Lynn Boylan (SF), Agricultural Panel

Amendment No. 16 is around giving the power to the Minister to issue a direction to upstream pipeline operators as their activities may relate to the climate action plan. It would also force large energy users to report on carbon intensity. My understanding from a reply to a parliamentary question is that LEUs, particularly data centres, are lumped together with oil refineries, which seems a bit bizarre. I wonder whether that is about covering up the fact that we do not have that many oil refineries but we have many data centres and, therefore, they are reporting. Would the Minister of State give a commitment that now that we have so many data centres, maybe we should separate them out so we can see exactly the carbon intensity of the LEUs?

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