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.