Niall Ó Brolcháin (Green Party)

We do not have control over our own fuel sources. It is important that we find alternative fuel sources to help us in emergency situations to be able to provide a certain level of security, in particular for transport. If we considered it strategically, indigenously produced bio-fuels would help us to have a certain level of transport in difficult times.

When I first became a member of Galway City Council, somebody mentioned that vegetable oil was blocking up the sewage pipes because various chip shops were pouring the waste vegetable oil down the drain. I proposed the solution of creating a market for it, turning it into fuel and running our council vehicles on it. The response I got from almost every councillor was guffaws and that it was an absolutely ludicrous solution.