Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Renewable Energy Directive: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Kevin Brady:

The key point is the renewable heat incentive is for heat, not electricity. We can control to some degree through sustainability criteria. Under European state aid rules, we would not have the ability to say that this incentive is paid to a heat user but only if he or she buys biomass that is produced in Ireland. We cannot distinguish. It is a European single market.