Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised)

2:00 am

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are looking at that, not necessarily by way of the budget, but for 2026. We got the renewable heat obligation, RHO, memo approved at Cabinet just yesterday. I expect that will enable us to look at the mix within home heating oil, in particular, and fossil, and when we start to blend there, what rate of blend it will be, especially in relation to the multiplier around anaerobic digestion, AD, which is an area we have not done well in so far. There are only two plants in the country. We can expand that very quickly for renewable gas that can go straight into our network. It that were to be, HVO would sit under energy transformation. I would expect it to be-----

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