Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what subsidies the Government has provided to develop carbon capture and storage technologies in each of the years 2015 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53260/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications has no records of subsidies paid to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies in the years requested.

However, several Irish assessment studies on the issue have been funded and conducted in recent years:

• SEAI, 2008: ‘Assessment of the Potential for Geological Storage of CO₂for the Island of Ireland’
• EPA, 2010: ‘An Assessment of the Potential for Geological Storage of CO₂in the Vicinity of Moneypoint, Co. Clare’
• The GSI 2014: Irish Sea Carbon Capture and Storage Project’
• SEAI 2022 'Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS)'report as part of the National Heat Study series