‘Dysfunctional and illogical’: Developer Michael O’Flynn on Ireland’s new vacant land tax
Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
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The Importance of Energy Independence
A company called Barry Rowe has an oil and gas exploration license for a site of the south coast of Ireland near Cork. They haven't yet got proper licenses or authority from the government to go ahead with that but they're hoping to get that very shortly. So I'm just wondering where you stand on that because obviously that would give us a security of supply it's right in our doorstep presumably to be cheaper than we could buy energy on the world market. And it would certainly fill the gap until a lot of these renewable resources come on stream. Well I think that this is more of a personal view than an engineer's Ireland view but I think that we need to balance any exploration we have within
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