Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Donnchadh Ó LaoghaireDonnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have one more question and then I have two more pieces. That report is not from a million years ago but things develop quickly in this arena. That document is from February 2022 and I imagine some of the studies and considerations it was working off were from 2020, 2021 and so on. Things have evolved. We have our first HVO refinery now in my constituency, as it happens. That is not the reason I am raising it by any manner or means but there is now a refinery in the State and availability of HVO is maybe in a different place than it was when some of those decisions were taken. I hope that study becomes a living document and that the policy can change in consideration of the evolution of the market. Is that a discussion the Department is having at the minute, as the picture around HVO may be changing a bit?

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