Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Professor Hannah Daly:

-----it is about wide-scale land use for a silage-based grass to create biogas. The issue is that genuinely sustainable biofuels from waste are a very small share of our overall fossil fuel demands, so that is where the issue of scale is a problem. I am sure there are other comments on methane leakage.