Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed)

12:00 pm

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

The political message to the regulators will be to put increased attention on emissions reduction. While the energy sector has done more than the agriculture and transport sectors, which have done absolutely nothing, the reality is that we are still 90% dependent on fossil fuels for our energy mix. That has to change. Renewables are only 9.3% and that will lead to significant cost to the Exchequer. Last year, emissions only fell marginally and that was because of a mild winter and because Moneypoint was out of action for a while. We have to scale up our ambition. I am fearful that we still do not get that across the State. I have some direct questions. When will the auction be next year?

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