Energy Policy: Motion [Private Members]
Dail Éireann — 2026-09-17
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

Great, because he will have to correct the record later as that is not what is in his record. The Minister knows he is fiddling the figures because that 19,000 figure - it is 19,500 - is coming from the KPMG report, on which the Minister spent €105,000 of public money to get. He told them we only want this outcome, that is, to say data centres are really important. Most of those jobs are construction jobs. There are not 19,000 people in working data centres directly in this country. The Minister knows that is not true. Most of them are construction jobs.

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Sitting date: 2026-09-17