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

I mentioned some of the additional measures we may look at such as rail freight. Some will be involved in delivering what we have committed to, such as the hydrogen strategy, which I do not think was published in the CAP 23. That is an example of a technological development. Another one is the role of food additives. I am now going away from my own sectoral emission areas a bit but that will be something for Government to decide. Each sectoral Minister will be responsible for those rather than it being my immediate call.

In my area, carbon capture and storage will be important. I will give an example of somewhere it might be possible to go further. I visited the Poolbeg incinerator recently. Not only do we need to tap in the waste heat to heat the offices along the quays, Georgian Dublin and the National Maternity Hospital, but also technological developments mean a carbon capture system could be installed at Poolbeg. I know carbon capture and storage is controversial. It will be the subject of a lot of debate in Dubai, at the climate negotiations. It is not an opt out for the fossil fuel industry. In Ireland's case, additional measures like carbon capture and storage which might be applied to the cement industry or to incinerators give significant additional chunks of carbon reduction. These types of technological measures, as well as addressing the land use, land use change and forestry, LULUCF, issue and the sectoral emission allocations, which will incorporate some of those technological solutions, is where there will be variation in the climate action plan 2024.