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:

If we are looking purely to decarbonise the economy and purely to incentivise, it will cost a lot of money. Bringing us back to what we are here to talk about in the first place, the bioenergy and biofuels obligation rate is not Exchequer-funded. It is effectively placing the obligation, via the suppliers, on the users of fuel for transport to include a certain amount of renewable energy in it. There are myriad options available. Certainly, to start something, an incentive is sometimes the most appropriate action. I think that completes the questions.