Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That explains the regular comment that Ireland is lagging behind in rolling out this technology.

In Timoleague, where I am from, there is a plant that has an almost co-operative approach, with farmers bringing in waste material from piggeries and chicken farms etc. The gate fee is waived and it works really well, although it had its own challenges in getting up and running. The operators of the plant estimate that over ten years, they have saved approximately 1 million tonnes of carbon emissions, which sounds very impressive. Will the witnesses indicate any tangible way for us to understand savings in carbon emissions from anaerobic digestion technology? What percentage of those emissions savings would be from the agricultural side with respect to mitigating methane emissions and what percentage is from this being an alternative renewable form of energy?