Mr. P.J. McCarthy:

I have an answer to Senator Dooley's first question as to who is doing this well. The French are doing it extremely well. They are rolling it out at three or four AD plants a week. That success is down to collaboration between government, agriculture and the French equivalents of the IFA's farming representative groups and Teagasc. That has been achieved and the OECD has noted that the French are well ahead of their decarbonisation targets in agriculture. The second very good example is in Italy, where biogas is done right. That was referred to earlier. Italy is focusing on the transport sector. While those are good examples, we need to understand that Ireland is unique. Some 92% of our land mass is in pasture. We have a population of approximately 5 million. We do not have the same sustainable feedstocks our European counterparts might have or do have.