Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 December 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Waste Policy and Incineration: Discussion

2:00 pm

Mr. Matthew Collins:

A lot of it will depend on whether there is a suitable facility, such as the Dublin Waste to Energy facility, close to a residential area that can use the heat being generated. The facility already produces power that goes into the grid but for the heat we need to have a community nearby to benefit from it. It would probably depend on the actual project being proposed. The Dublin project is probably the best case in Ireland given that it is built within a city, which would not be unusual in a European context.