We have long-term planning.
- The government has banned gas exploration off our coast
- The government opposed an LPG terminal in Foynes - an alternative supply source
- The government rejected the plan to use the defunct Kinsale field for storage
That's long term planning - but it's shit long term planning.
It will take a decade to undo the damage that these decisions have caused - and that assumes they will reverse the decisions. Which is by no means certain. Doing so would amount to an admission that they made a huge error.
Incidentally, the Kinsale gas field structure is currently being dismantled - thereby ending the possibility of using that field for storage.
I despair.