Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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Okay, then I will move on and maybe come back to it later. Another example is on the heating side. It relates to district heating in Dublin. We need to take the massive amount of waste heat coming out of the incinerator and being pumped into the River Liffey and use it to heat offices and homes in Dublin by 2025. That is a not insignificant volume of heat that could help to reduce emissions.

On solar PV, we want every school to have a solar panel on it by 2025. That would give us some of the 5,000 MW of solar power we want to produce. We will produce more solar renewables in the next three years than we produced in total over the past 20 years.

These are the sort of measures I believe we can deliver. This is tens of thousands of farms with solar PV going in as part of the solution. I see no reason why we should not be able to deliver that in the next three years. These are some of the examples of projects we need to deliver.