Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The position of the Irish Government is that we want initially to phase down fossil fuels and then phase them out. It is a realistic one, which understands that we will still need to use fossil fuels for a period ahead, but not forever, and it does understand that in ten, 20 or 30 years, technologies that may not be viable now may be viable in future and carbon capture and storage may be one of those. Provided that the carbon and greenhouse gases do not go up into the environment, they do not contribute to climate change so if carbon capture and storage proves to work and to be viable in the future, we should not close it off as a possibility. There is a long-standing tradition on the far left of rejecting new technologies and it has been proven wrong time and time again in that regard.

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