Maureen O'Sullivan
Question:125. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to his comments 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 as according to the National Oil Reserves Agency's 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 in Ireland were from food crops maize, sugar cane and wheat and approximately one tenth of this , 3.8 million litres, were from Guatemalan sugar cane, all amounting to 45% of the biodiesel used in Ireland in 2012 coming from food crops. [53491/13]
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