Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 458: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will support a 50% grant aid scheme to be made available to all farmers to convert their fossil fuel boilers to bio-fuel boilers. [34400/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Promotion and development of renewable energy, including biofuels, in Ireland are matters in the first instance for the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources. There are no funds available to my Department for the provision of grant aid on the lines suggested by the Deputy. However, I understand that Sustainable Energy Ireland has recently announced a pilot scheme to grant aid the installation of wood-fired boilers.