In November 2023, Minister Eamon Ryan published his new energy policy, the Energy Security Package. What was agreed to in this Programme for Government was not in reality a moratorium, but a policy statement. Elsewhere the Programme for Government declared:“As Ireland moves towards carbon neutrality, we do not believe that it make sense to develop LNG gas import terminals importing fracked gas. Accordingly, we shall withdraw the Shannon LNG terminal from the EU Projects of Common Interest list in 2021”. This is in spite of the Department’s Security of Supply Technical Report saying that it would import fracked gas.