By:
Elaine Edwards - Irish Times
People Before Profit has called for the return of Ireland’s oil and gas resources to public ownership in order to help generate revenue for the State.
The party, which is part of the United Left Alliance umbrella group in the election campaign, published its policy on energy and natural resources today.
Dr Kieran Allen of the school of sociology in UCD, who helped produce the policy, said there was an estimated €750 billion worth of oil and gas of the coast of Ireland at a “conservative” estimate.