Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I suggested that grass would be used to produce gas but not in a biomass plant where it would be burned at 40% efficiency. I am not talking about grass but willow and miscanthus, which we have done and on which there are reports. I am talking about using average and good land. Everyone wants the good land because they can grow barley, wheat or biomass and milk a lot of cows or fatten a lot of calves. On average, throughout the country, we are not as capable as other countries.