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.