Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the updated biofuel policy will be enacted; and if the full provisions of the updated Renewable Energy Directive will be legislated for by 30 June 2021 as previously repeatedly advised. [28798/21]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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In September 2019, a public consultation was launched on the path for the Biofuels Obligation Scheme over the period of 2021 to 2030. The consultation, which closed in November 2019, has been helping to inform the development of an updated Policy Statement on biofuels and the next iteration of the Climate Action Plan, both of which will set out the planned approach to the use of biofuels and other renewable transport fuels for the coming years. The Policy Statement is at an advanced stage.

Ireland is required to bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to transpose the relevant articles of the recast Renewable Energy Directive by 30 June 2021. Articles 4 and 6 of the Directive have been transposed through the European Union (Renewable Energy) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 365 of 2020).

My Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, in consultation with the Department of Transport, is currently working through the further transposition of the Directive with a view to putting in place secondary legislation to further transpose the Directive in the coming months.