Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Biomethane Renewable Gas: Discussion

Mr. Declan Murray:

Ten years. The last five to six years were probably spent in various appeals, judicial reviews and so on. To be fair, the original planning permission for the Roscommon site was not submitted by us but by a different company. It was not suitable for the site. It was never going to commercially work and it was not going to work from an energy point of view. We were probably responsible for about four of those ten years. It is a long process. People say the process can be shortened and one can go straight to An Bord Pleanála, but there is an outlay of €150,000 just to get into that process, which is commercially not viable when one does not know if one will get something.

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