Senator John McGahon- speech from 19 Jan 2022
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Transcript
Thank you very much. Leader, today I would like to discuss and comment on the report launched this morning by Wind Energy Ireland in relation to green hydrogen and the role that it can play in Ireland's energy transition. And from reading the report today, it's quite clear that the renewable electricity can play such a vital role in Ireland's transition to a net-zero society, it can boost our economy and it can make our energy supply much more secure as well. I read the first ten pages of the report, I hope to read the rest of it this evening, but it showed how Ireland's abundant wind energy resources could produce vast quantities of green hydrogen. And this can be used to really reduce our dependence leader on imported fossil fuels that cause a lot of significant energy spikes throughout 2021 that we all discussed in this House. It also sets out how green hydrogen has emerged as a leading option for reducing emissions to decarbonise sectors of the economy. And the report calls for causing government to do two things. Am I over time? You're going to be right. Yeah, it's OK. I'll wrap it up. You weren't speaking that quickly. That's OK. You just keep going. Yeah. So to finish up, to finish up Leader, the report calls in government to do two things, and third, I'd like to ask for a debate on it. The two things are, first of all, to make sure that we release a robust hydrogen strategy in Q2 of 2022, and secondly, to establish a high-level cross-government group to develop recommendations to cut the price of renewable electricity so we can produce green hydrogen as cheaply and as quickly as possible. And I know that Minister Eamon Ryan is doing a lot of work in this regard, and I just think it would be a good idea to have either a general debate on hydrogen at some stage in this House, or to ask that at some stage that we could have the strategy produced as soon as possible, and then we could perhaps discuss that. Thank you very much. Sure. Thank you very much at this. Thank you very much.