Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2022-10-26
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Bríd Smith (PBP), Dublin South-Central

I move amendment No. 8:
In page 7, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:
"Reports
12. The Minister shall, six months after the commencement of this Act, provide a report on the likely CO2 emissions from the 450 megawatts of temporary emergency electricity generation plant and shall thereafter provide a report, as soon as practical, detailing actual CO2 emissions in subsequent years from these generators.".
The amendment basically seeks a report. It is important that we get some measurement of the CO2 emissions from the temporary 450 MW emergency electricity generation plant. A report should be provided as soon as practicable, detailing the actual CO2 emissions for however many years they are produced. The Minister will probably say this is unnecessary as all emissions must be counted, but we must count these emissions separately to determine exactly what damage we are doing as otherwise we are acting in a vacuum. The emissions must be measured. We need to know that they will not be part of the carbon trading scheme in the European Union. Perhaps the Minister would clarify that. It is a simple request for a report on the level of CO2 emissions that will emanate from this extraordinary project.

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Sitting date: 2022-10-26