Joe Lynam

And do you think that might be a model for how this thing goes forward?

Yeah.

You may have heard a breakfast briefing before our show.

The Friends of the Earth was on talking about you guys.

There should be using our energy to build houses rather than data centers.

The Friends of the Irish Environment, a separate lobby group, claims that the Kilmeaden development would generate almost as much carbon emissions in eight years as the entire Waterford region.

EV charging.

Is that easy to set up to put in EV charging points in your forecourts?

Did you read the John Collison article in the Irish Times over the weekend?

Can I ask you the same question that I asked David Smith earlier on from Echelon about the John Collison article over the weekend?

John Collison, just to remind people, is the founder of Stripe and one of the most successful Irish young businessmen in the world.

You're a business leader as well.

He's already a billionaire.

Any thoughts on the, Collison was speaking about the quangos and the political cowardice that's out there.

He basically said that the government has lacked political courage to make any decisions when it comes to big infrastructure by outsourcing it to hundreds of different quangos who aren't answerable to the public or even, in some cases, to politicians.

What did you make of that?

Well, best of luck with it, both in Arklow and in Kilmeaden.

That is David Smith, the Deputy Chief Executive of Echelon.

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

Good morning and welcome to Breakfast Business and thank you to Shane Beattie.