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

One of the concerns we have - I believe I have heard other Deputies say it - is that we seem to be holding back on the hydrogen. I suppose a gas networks company is used to using natural gas. The witness made a point that one would need large volumes of wind, which we already have. We are planning to have 70% renewables, which will be largely made up of wind, by 2030. I think the curtailment on our wind network is already 7% to 8%. We are wasting, or not using, 7% to 8% of the resources we have. Is that not an immediate really low-cost power supply for us - to go stronger on hydrogen more quickly?