Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Ports Development: Discussion
Mr. Barry O'Connell:
To respond to Deputy Matthews's point on emissions, if we look at how the model might work it is about relocating the freight point from the port to an inland port somewhere where it is off-loaded. Then it would be stored, which would require infrastructure. Then it would be on-loaded again and 73% of it will come back to the port where it began. When we look at the total emissions of these two processes, the chances are that the second process I have just described has higher emissions than the first.
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