Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion

10:00 am

Dr. John Curtis:

Yes, the ESRI has said that before. The situation at present is that peat is co-fired and by having a refit scheme to incentivise the burning of biomass, at the same time we are burning peat, which is the most emissions intensive. There is a case made for security of supply as to our use of peat, but I find it hard on economic grounds to justify why we would continue to burn peat. We have said that before, repeatedly.

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