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2025-01-29
Politician(s) lobbied: Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Transport; Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Charlie McConalogue (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Dara Calleary (Minister of State), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Intent: Exclusion of extra-EU product from the RTFO and RHO.
Methods: Email, Submission, Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation and proposed Renewable Heat Obligation are not functioning due to lack of supervision of certification scheme ISCC. Instead of genuine sustainable biofuels - with benefits for Ireland such as farm incomes |
| — | agri-food sustainability and energy independence - the majority of biofuels are from palm oil falsely labelled as palm oil mill effluent and used cooking oil. Ireland's Biomethane Strategy ambitions have no hope in the face of such unfair competition. |
2024-09-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications
Intent: A better informed legislature.
Methods: Email, Submission, Social Media
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Promotion of sustainable renewable fuels and raising awareness of endemic fraud in the supply chains on which Ireland depends for most of the emissions reductions in the transport sector. |
2024-04-30
Politician(s) lobbied: Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications
Intent: A better informed legislature.
Methods: Email, Submission, Social Media
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Promotion of sustainable renewable fuels and raising awareness of endemic fraud in the supply chains on which Ireland depends for most of the emissions reductions in the transport sector. |
2024-01-08
Politician(s) lobbied: Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Transport; Brian Leddin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Finance; Charlie McConalogue (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Intent: Reduced carbon emissions in the transport sector without fraud. Ireland relies nearly exclusively on used cooking oil for renewable energy in the transport, the bulk of which is actually virgin palm and soy oil fraudulently labelled as used cooking oil. We seek to have this abuse prevented.
Methods: Meeting, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Promotion of genuine sustainable renewable transport fuels (methane and ethanol). |
2023-09-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Richard Bruton (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Transport; Brian Leddin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Improved awareness of opportunities for industrial development of climate friendly sectors, and better enforcement of EU and Irish policies concerning international trade and fraud.
Methods: Email, Submission, Social Media, Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Consultation on renewable fuels regulation |
| — | the worrying extent of fraud in supply chains to Ireland |
| — | biomethane |
| — | low carbon plant protein opportunities accompanying bioenergy |
| — | and carbon removals accompanying bioenergy. |
2022-09-01
Politician(s) lobbied: Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Timmy Dooley (Senator), Seanad; Darren O'Rourke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: We seek rapid uptake in the use of sustainable renewable fuels, bringing not just climate benefits but also benefits to the economy and the environment, for instance through greater use of domestic waste to produce biofuels.
Methods: Email, Event / Reception
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Ireland is facing enormous challenges regarding carbon emissions reductions in the transport sector. We bring deep insight on renewable fuels |
| — | trading conditions |
| — | sustainability and risks and we seek to inform policy makers and raise levels of expertise in Ireland. Specifically |
| — | we assist with the introduction of E10 petrol and biomethane in transport |
| — | and with the improvement of sustainability criteria for all biofuels. |
2022-01-05
Politician(s) lobbied: Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Transport
Intent: Ireland could and should using more biofuels in transport under its climate programmes. We use only a fifth of the amount of crop biofuels as the EU on average and this is holding us back. Ireland is wholly dependent on imported used cooking oil for its transport policy and this is unsustainable due to lack of supply of cooking oil and due to fraud in the sector, with virgin palm oil illicitly entering the supply chain. We seek balance and quality.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Climate change |
| — | transport carbon emissions and Irish biofuels regulations. |
2021-09-03
Politician(s) lobbied: Brian Leddin (Councillor), Limerick City and County Council
Intent: Continued support for bioethanol at EU and national level in renewable energy and biofuels regulation.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Raising awareness of the benefits of renewable bioethanol as a climate friendly energy source for the transport sector. |
2020-01-16
Politician(s) lobbied: Hildegarde Naughton (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Timmy Dooley (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eamon Ryan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Lahart (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Máire Devine (Senator), Seanad; Alice-Mary Higgins (Senator), Seanad
Intent: Government support for immediate introduction of E10 petrol (but to date there has been no action!) plus greater attention to the opportunity for use of bioenergy in transport generally.
Methods: Email, Submission, Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Climate action in transport |
| — | raising awareness of the benefits of E10 petrol which would bring the climate benefits of 100 |
| — | 000 electric cars overnight at no cost to consumer or exchequer. |
2019-04-29
Politician(s) lobbied: Richard Bruton (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Catherine Byrne (Minister of State), Department of Health
Intent: Foster the introduction of E10 petrol blend in Ireland as a measure for climate action, cleaner air and a stronger economy for European farmers.
Methods: Email, Submission
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Promotion of E10 petrol blend as a measure for climate action |
| — | cleaner air and a stronger economy for European farmers. |