Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Graeme Lochhead:

I will start off with the question on competition with food production. Our predominant mix is wastes and residues. That is what is going into the plant. This is a personal view because I am a dairy farmer's son, but I do not particularly like grass for various reasons. We predominantly use wastes in our plants to produce our biomethane. Those wastes come from the agriculture production lines. We are not competing with food production. We are also putting the RENURE back to land under crops. The idea behind RENURE and taking the nutrients back to land, especially tillage land which does not have access to slurry-----