Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 May 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Maximising the Usage and Potential of land (Resumed): Bord na Móna and UCD

2:50 pm

Photo of Andrew DoyleAndrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It might be useful to get that research and we could get it on the Library and Research page. It might form part of a justification, if things stack up. If we were to up production of biofuels of some description, using either grass, willow or miscanthus and that would benefit Ireland's greenhouse gas targets, one would need an incentive to so do. One could make an economic argument for the incentive being put in place because of other factors.

It might be useful if we were to have a look at that data. I anticipate that we would recommend in our submission that it would be looked at.

I thank the delegates and members. Two Senators had to speak in the Chamber, and had apologised earlier that they would not be able to stay for the whole meeting.

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