Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Decarbonisation Strategy for Aviation and Shipping Sectors: Minister of State at the Department of Transport

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is huge ambition, and the task force report speaks to that huge potential around sustainable aviation fuel and hydrogen. Shannon Airport is a very important intermodal transport hub, so it involves integrating that with logistics and the digital potential within the region. We are absolutely clear with the task force report announced at the weekend and the hydrogen strategy. It is all looking west. That is where we need to ensure we match the ambition and the potential in these reports with the infrastructure and planning. That is something we are keen to do from a transport perspective, working with Shannon Airport and others on that wider issue. It is also why we are specifically establishing in the Department a structure on sustainable aviation fuel, bringing in industry and others, to develop a pathway for the long term. There is huge ambition in the task force report around that.

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