Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

To follow on from Deputy O'Rourke's contribution on food waste, is there potential for a co-operative model in communities to handle food waste from enterprises such as restaurants, hotels, schools and hospitals, which generate a lot of food waste? Is there allowance in our legislative framework in respect of the circular economy provisions, plus the potential for energy production through anaerobic digestion and the production of biomethane for energy generation? Is it possible for a community to get together, analyse the food waste that is being produced and set up a sustainable energy community, a co-operative or a social enterprise?

Perhaps the Minister of State would enlighten me on that point.