Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

From an environmental perspective, in a world where everyone will have to decarbonise and where biomass is critical for heat and combined heat and power with 90% efficiency, using it for power generation with only 30% efficiency makes no sense. There is a real risk that the company will be worked into that dead end and it will not be sustainable or continued. Another transition will then be required in five or ten years' time. How many tonnes of milled peat does Bord na Móna export, or how many does it intend to export, for that commercial horticultural product?