Energy report - A wake-upcall to our energy crisis

TODAY’S hard-hitting report from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Energy is a loud wake-up call for Government, a landmark document that underlines the need for radical policies to ensure national energy security, based on affordable and dependable supplies, critical to the economy.

The report charts a road map for policy initiatives to satisfy Ireland’s insatiable appetite for energy. It is a forthright analysis and could be used as a blueprint for scrutinising other major problems facing society.

Committee chairman Noel O’Flynn pulls no punches, emphasising that Government must put a coordinated energy policy in place as a matter of national importance. Coming from a Fianna Fáil TD, his comments are as refreshing as they are unexpected.