Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Michael Moroney:

The Environmental Protection Agency seems to have the management of that. If we are going to develop the latter point we made about biodigesters, there are issues in some areas with identifying what a digestate is as a product and whether there is a requirement to license the application. These are very significant policy changes that will help determine the future of the whole biodigester sector. Our members have a very significant input in managing that process for the betterment of the very valuable fertiliser for our farmer clients.