Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Coillte's Annual Report for 2016 and Climate Change: Discussion
4:00 pm
Mr. Fergal Leamy:
The key issue there is quantum. With the sheer size of some of the large scale plants being proposed, there is not enough material in the local area which is in excess of value added wood. What we generally see working are smaller scale facilities where one can match the local fibre to the local heat source. The sheer scale of the Mayo project was the issue in that instance.