Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals - Net Zero Industry Act
Mr. Se?n Finan:
I thank the Deputy for his question. As a follow-on point, when we go down the route of listing technologies, it is important to recognise that there are also different technology readiness levels within that list, in addition to different cost points and different benefits that some technologies can bring over others. Another very important recognition are the uses. We have many within heat and transport. There is high and low temperature within heat so different technology offerings can be deployed, depending on the temperature. It is the same for transport. Electric vehicles could potentially be deployed at domestic car level, whereas for heavy duty vehicles it could be biofuels or biomethane. We need that flexibility built into any mechanism, which comes in the form of this Act, that allows-----