Energy Policy
Dail Éireann — 2024-10-15
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Neasa Hourigan (GP), Dublin Central

I thank the Minister. We have done a huge amount of work on energy security reports and reviews, and there has been an incredible amount of research done by this Government into LNG, I suspect. It seems to be that there has been no research on the health and safety impacts for communities. Ireland has a very dispersed population, so when there is an incident with LNG, the evacuation zone is between two and three miles. For an area like Shannon, two or three miles is a lot of people to move from their homes and whose homes will be in grave danger.
In 2004, there was an explosion in Algeria that killed 27 people outright, and over 70 people were seriously injured. I wonder if the Minister could commit to undertaking a health and safety review of LNG?

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