Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2024-01-31
============================================================

Eamon Ryan (GP), Dublin Bay South

I agree with everything the Deputy says except the central contention that we should switch HVO into heating as well as transport. I say that having looked at and analysed it at length, along with other international colleagues. There is only a limited supply of HVO available in the world and we have to be careful of the land use implications if we rely on it further. That HVO is going to be needed in transport because we do not have alternatives. In areas like aviation, we are going to have to switch to biofuels and kerosene coming from HVO. There is no other easy alternative. With heating, we have other alternatives. I would hate to give false promises to the very good Irish companies and others who might want to use it in the heating system. I do not believe it is sustainable. If we started down that road, we would have to reverse back out, which would be more damaging and more expensive for both the companies and the citizens.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2024-01-31/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:52:36+00:00
Sitting date: 2024-01-31