Mr. Hugh Doyle:

Absolutely. For the beef industry to survive, if we do not get ironclad contracts, we have to think of alternative income. In Ireland, we produce millions of tonnes of grass and slurry. When grass and slurry are joined and oxygen is removed, one gets a beautiful thing called biomethane. The Government can talk about the agricultural industry and what it does to the environment. The Beef Plan Movement wants to set up co-operatives in every county in Ireland to get grass, slurry and biomethane. We want the motoring industry to be run on this, with it available on every forecourt in Ireland. There are fewer than 120 anaerobic digesters in Ireland. There are more than 9,000 in Germany. It jumped on this two years ago and we are playing catch-up. If the Government wants to save the environment, the agricultural industry can help it to do that.