Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)

The excise relief for biofuel measures. That has already been the subject of a pilot scheme measure, and not a very successful one because of the limitations placed on the scheme by the Minister's officials. That took 18 months to secure approval from the European Commission. After making a subsequent announcement to extend that scheme, the Minister says the process of getting the EC to accept that it is not state aid has not yet begun, halfway into the budgetary year.

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