Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 340: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if consideration has been given to the possibility of burning wood fuel in peat burning power stations. [30589/06]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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The Green Paper on Energy Policy, launched on 1 October identifies the co-firing of up to 30% biomass including wood products at the peat fired generating stations by 2015. The Ministerial Task Force on National Bioenergy Strategy is developing the overall framework for cohesive deployment of bioenergy resources including biomass.