Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I would love to see carbon capture as a viable technology. It should, could and would have a place but I hear no international expert or have seen no major report which currently thinks that it is viable or that there is any sign of it becoming viable in coming decades. At a time when we could be connecting with the Continent to provide that balancing power supply and developing our renewables, I think it will go 100% renewables. I do not think that we will burn gas in the future, I do not think that our climate will be able to take it. The key reason why carbon capture and storage is not working is not ideological; it is just not economic. It is nowhere near it. It is twice or three times the price of the renewable alternatives, which will kill it for the foreseeable future.