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
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I need to get the RHO Bill passed. We have got approval at Cabinet for that. It is something we will advance in the autumn of this year, but we need a technical regulations information system, TRIS, notification. That has to go to the Commission before it can go to the Dáil. There are specific reasons for that around the price we will pay for indigenous input to AD and biomethane because that is in the same RHO Bill. I do not want to do one part of the Bill without the other. The blend piece and the rate at which we would do that is also in the draft heads of the Bill. We have already had three meetings with the Commission on that - two in March and one in June. We will be engaging with it again. To answer the Deputy's question, if everything goes well, it will be the second half of next year.
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