Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Moving to the area of anaerobic digesters, this is a real question for rural Ireland. Can Mr. O'Sullivan give us an assessment of how we could protect our stocking levels with the use of digesters? Could we protect existing stocking levels? Certainly in the case of our smaller farmers, were they to have to reduce stocking levels, in many instances it would make the holdings absolutely unviable.

Sadly, several small farms are quite challenged without this but were they to have a mandatory reduction of stock that would create huge problems. To what degree can the anaerobic digesters be used as a solution? Could Mr. O'Sullivan comment on their economics too?