Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We will have no new fossil fuel infrastructure in this country that sees us breaching our climate limits. We are currently building emergency gas-fired generation, which is new fossil fuel infrastructure, but it is only being agreed on and provided for on a security basis as long as we know it will not lead to us breaching our emissions limits.

I would argue that there is an issue around the deployment of fracked gas. It is important that we continue with the approach that has been taken in the House over a number of years and say that we do not import fracked gas. That is a secondary issue. At the same time, we have to consider the short-term measures. Over the course of the decade, we will start to see the ramping up of renewables here. The introduction of heat pumps in our heating systems will see the demand for gas drop. This will bring us out of an insecure situation whereby we are dependent on such fossil fuels. The first priority and certainty is that we will do nothing which will see us breaching the climate commitments we are by Irish and European law committed to delivering on. No storage or other security system will be successful if it breaches those limits.

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