Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the German Bundestag along with members of the German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce and we also had significant people there from the wind energy development sector. The main purpose of the visit was to highlight to Germany how Ireland can be a significant contributor to green hydrogen in the coming years. The current German national hydrogen strategy shows it will need to import more than 70% of its hydrogen needs by 2030 while Ireland will have significant resources at that end. At the moment, the German Government is engaging with countries such as Chile, Ecuador and Australia, while we have yet to publish our hydrogen strategy or enter any memorandum of understanding with the German Government in to advance joint hydrogen initiative projects. I ask the Minister to push the Government, first, to publish our hydrogen strategy. Second, will she also add momentum to the Minister, Deputy Ryan, to co-sign a declaration of interest to co-operate in the field of green hydrogen development?

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