Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is already happening. FoodCloud and organisations like that are all about building networks of people who have something they do not want and people who want it in return, whether they want it as feedstock for their anaerobic digestion or as food they can eat. FoodCloud's technology platform is about connecting people who are in surplus with people who are in deficit and in matching people up. It is just one of a number of companies that do that. Many of the supermarkets now have a number of arrangements to transfer their food to people who can make use of it. It is definitely a network arrangement.

For communities, there has long been a community composting movement and anaerobic digestion is something people are starting to do. It is very common in Germany. There are tens of thousands of anaerobic digestion schemes in communities in Germany and I think that will be part of the anaerobic digestion strategies coming out of the bioeconomy policy from the Department of agriculture and the Department of the environment.