Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In her next round of answers, Ms Considine might comment on the Copenhagen Economics report.

Everything happening as regards the fuel farm is exciting. The Shannon Estuary task force has bought into it and there is a memorandum of understanding with the ESB on SAFs and hydrogen. Time and again, though, we seem to miss the opportunity for a national ammonia strategy. Countries such as Germany have reached the post in this regard. We are hearing loudly and clearly from other countries that if we do not have policies and onshore infrastructure to deal with some of this, they will hoover up the space. Our renewable energy output is reliant on wind, of which we have plenty, but fulfilling infrastructural needs and capitalising on the lucrativeness of everything else can be done by other countries.

I wish to ask about the jetty and the fuel farm, which has been at Shannon since the 1970s and is owned by the airport. Has the airport a vision on ammonia? It is viewed as a stable fuel. It is only hydrogen infused with nitrogen and is an easy fuel to create. Other countries have a strategy. It is the real liquid gold that Ireland, and specifically the jetty at Shannon, can export. It does not all have to go into the wings and fuselages of aeroplanes to get them into the sky. Ammonia is the fuel that other countries are exporting. It could position us as an exporter like oil production positioned the Middle East in the 1990s.