Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. David Owens:
We would like to be ambitious on this. The delegated Act covers those conditions that investments in natural gas and nuclear energy have to meet. Ireland is not likely to object to this delegated Act, as it stands at the moment. Taxonomy is a voluntary standard. Strict emissions targets were put in around gas. Nuclear power generation is banned in Ireland. There is no intention to revisit that.