Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion

Mr. Se?n Finan:

I thank Senator Dooley for his questions. I will come back on the one about where this is being done well. As Mr. McCarthy highlighted, we can take lessons from each of the countries that have an industry in that the policy varies slightly across member states in which this is used. There is a big focus on transport in Italy. Denmark has a policy on mandating a certain percentage of slurry to go into AD facilities. We could take a number of lessons from various EU member states and apply them here in a policy that would move us forward.

Following on from the point made about multiple Government Departments benefiting from a sector, from a leadership point of view it would be really good if the Department of the Taoiseach were to take on this as a strategy to drive it and to bring all the players together because it is cross-governmental-----

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