Data Centres
Dail Éireann — 2026-09-22
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Rose Conway-Walsh (SF), Mayo

Over the summer the Department published a report prepared by KPMG that set out the economic case for data centres in Ireland. Freedom of information requests made by Lynn Boylan of Sinn Féin, and I acknowledge all her work in this area, revealed that officials from the Department sought to make amendments to the draft prepared by KPMG in order to cut concerns about the impact of data centre expansion on housing, utilities and farmland. In the interests of transparency will the Minister release the full draft report prepared by KPMG where these concerns have not been removed?

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Sitting date: 2026-09-22