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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I was here in the Dáil-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I was here in the Dáil when Deputy Murphy was making that very case, that is, our future rested with fossil-fuel expansion at a time when, for the previous three decades, our party had been unique and singular in calling out the climate crisis for what it is. It is a threat to our children's future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: It is somewhere where we do have to make fundamental changes for the better.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: This is all speculative. It is projecting what will be our gap. It is for the second half of this decade, not the first. The compliance cost depends on how other states perform, so it is very difficult to say. It is better to be upfront and honest and say it is not without a risk of being very significantly expensive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: First, a large number of data centres are already contracted and the Government does not reverse contracts. Those which already have planning permission, grid connection, or are already proceeding, will do so under the conditions that were set, but I am looking forward to how additional new data centres should operate. Just like in every sector, there is not an out on climate: they have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: They will not be taking renewable energy that reduces its availability to homes. We will have a surplus of renewable power by the end of this decade of some 13 TWh. We need to find industrial applications where we can use that to the benefit of our people and our country. This summer the CRU will publish its guidelines on connections for large industry users, which includes data centres....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: If I could just make the point, first, we are very seriously constrained with data centres, not just because of carbon emissions but also because of the need for grid enhancement and development, in particular in the Dublin area where we currently do not have capacity to take on additional data centres, as well as the climate prerogative. What I am doing is working with the industry and with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, I am saying that new data centres-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: We will have to wait for the conclusion of the CRU process, which is the independent regulator of the sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: What is actually-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: They are being.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: It is being implemented.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I think the sector knows it has to go zero-carbon. It is committed to science-based targets. It would be willing to work in a country and with a Government with a similar view and which facilitates the use of renewables, the use of storage, the use of biomethane and the use of district heat to get zero-carbon developments. That is where the industry is going to go. It is challenging...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I agree that every sector is going to have to play its part and that no one gets an out. Agriculture is more challenging than others for a variety of reasons, first, a lot of agricultural emissions relate to land use and land use emissions are complicated. The science is complicated and it requires considerations of how we get that right. How we manage peaty soils is a big part of reducing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I was not particularly in favour of that. That did not come from a green perspective. That was a dairy industry proposal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I think we need to pay for a whole new generation of people coming in. Not to disrespect anyone who is an older farmer, but their sons and daughters need to have a clear economic future going into the family farm and the current system does not really incentivise that. The solution to this is for us to provide income certainty to farmers and to pay for nature as well. One of the reasons I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: They have to be treated in a slightly different way outside the rest of the sectors within a UN system, so within our land use emissions and in our European strategies. The reason we had to take it is that the science keeps changing. The science around the peaty soils in forests saw a 7 million tonnes swing in terms of the scientific assessment of what the impact of our forestry model was....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The budgets are set but they are treated in a different manner compared to these other sectoral areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: We have-----