Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am very conscious the PSO may not work, so we cannot put all our expectations on that. It is nice if it does, but we had this issue before and it is extremely difficult to get it over the line. I appeal to the Minister of State to please keep working on it but also to look at other options and incentives that can make Clare, the mid-west and Shannon attractive.

For the little bit of time I have left, I wish to move on to something that is also part of the overall aviation policy and that has impact on the mid-west, which is the capacity to have lower carbon fuels and the synthetic fuels that can be developed, particularly now recognising that hydrogen will be produced in the mid-west. The Minister was in Moneypoint recently, so he will be familiar with what the ESB is proposing to do there with the generation of hydrogen and the possibility of that becoming the base fuel or the base energy for the creation of more carbon-reduced fuels for the aviation sector. There is much work going on in Trinity College and at the University of Limerick. Will the Minister talk a little bit about that and how that might form part of his thinking in this overall strategy?