Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Tom O'Brien:

To answer the Deputy's question, a lot of these large energy users have gone to Government in recent years and said that unless there is a green molecule available in this country, they will have to move their manufacturing processes elsewhere. They do not even need a European law or anything else. As Mr. Lochhead alluded to, they have their own ESG targets and frameworks. This is about a licence to operate for a lot of these businesses. They need to have access to this molecule. The primary target audience of the molecule are those large energy users with a high heat demand, not necessarily the individual residential consumer.

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