Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Remits of Committees: European Court of Auditors
1:30 pm
Mr. Tony Murphy:
This is what we were talking about for biofuels as well. We do not want to be relying on outside the EU again and just replacing Russia with somebody else. Hydrogen can be from biomass as well. If it is coming from outside, we are depending on that source. There is too much demand at the moment from different sectors for any biomass that is available.
For us, how we are looking at this, as Deputy Bruton said earlier, and whether there is a strategy in place is how we are moving forward with the reduction on the import of hydrogen. If we are going to import hydrogen again, we are going to be dependent on somebody for delivery of that. We do not have any import strategy yet for hydrogen. We cannot really say anything on that yet because it has not been developed.
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