Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

This was discussed informally discussed at the Council of Ministers last week. Some countries have different views and some are going for blue hydrogen rather than green hydrogen. Ireland is going for green hydrogen. In Ireland we brought in three buses that run on hydrogen in order to get experience of what it is like to use them. This is not a mature technology but I do not want it always to be a future technology. We can achieve that by trying things out. I know in west Dublin there is a trial to inject hydrogen into the normal gas network and see how it works. It would be good if the existing gas infrastructure used to pump gas around the country could be reused for hydrogen. It would give us greater energy security for the future and avoid problems where we are dependent on unstable foreign powers for our energy needs, which affects people directly suffering from energy poverty.

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