301. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of comments made that Irish biofuel is from waste material and that we do not use any food crop in its manufacture, if his attention has been drawn to the inaccuracy of this statement since, according to the National Oil Reserves Agency 2012 Annual Report on the Biofuels Obligation Scheme, Document No: 457-X0098 Rev 2, September 2013 (details supplied), all of the 38,522,508 litres of bioethanol used here were from food crops, maize, sugarcane, wheat and about one tenth of that, 3.8 m litres, from Guatemalan sugarcane, such that 45% of the biodiesel used in Ireland in 2012 came from food crops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53056/13]

Summary

301. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of comments made that Irish biofuel is from waste material and that we do not use any food crop in its manufacture, if his attention has been drawn to the inaccuracy of this statement since, according to the National Oil Reserves Agency 2012 Annual Report on the Biofuels Obligation Scheme, Document No: 457-X0098 Rev 2, September 2013 (details supplied), all of the 38,522,508 litres of bioethanol used here were from food crops, maize, sugarcane, wheat and about one tenth of that, 3.8 m litres, from Guatemalan sugarcane, such that 45% of the biodiesel used in Ireland in 2012 came from food crops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53056/13]

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Food Security

  xml · EN · 10 December 2013

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.