Development (Strategic Gas Reserve) Bill 2026: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2026-06-30
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Jennifer Whitmore (SD), Wicklow

I move amendment No. 3:
In page 7, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following:
“ “emergency” means a situation where the State is experiencing a significant and protracted physical disruption of gas supply, or other catastrophic deterioration of the supply situation, and where—
(c) all relevant market-based measures have been fully implemented, exhausted, and proven insufficient to meet gas demand, and
(d) non-market-based measures must be introduced to safeguard gas supplies to protected customers, in accordance with the criteria for an Emergency Level under Article 11(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1938.
For the avoidance of doubt, an emergency does not include localised network constraints, or routine seasonal increases in gas demand where physical supply remains available;”.

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