The north Cork division of Cork County Council is writing to Greencore to ask what its intentions are for its idle sugar beet factory in Mallow. The council is anxious to see the site used and suggests that it could serve the community better as a biofuel plant.

The council is also writing to the Ministers for Agriculture and Climate Change about the issue as together they chair an interdepartmental group on the bioeconomy.

“The council is anxious to see the site used,” said county councillor John Paul O’Shea who brought the motion forward. “I think the site would be ideal to progress the bioeconomy. If we can discuss it nationally we can progress that.”

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