Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

In respect of Deputy McManus's earlier question about when we intend to have the sustainability criteria, the advantage of us supporting and working with the European Commission on this is that it alone will be able to put in the labelling and tagging system so that we clearly know where bio-fuels have come from and that there are real emissions reductions which do not lead to food poverty or destruction of native habitats. I understand that those details should be agreed by October as the French Presidency seeks to have the renewables package in its overall climate change package agreed. We can fit in with that European sustainability criteria programme to ensure that the bio-fuels we develop are sustainable.

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