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

Yes, absolutely. Hospitality is big in the regional parts of Ireland. A scheme for industry, hotels and so on exists through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, to fund renewable forms of heating their premises. Hotels or restaurants where large amounts of gas are used for cooking do not have the option of applying for grants for a renewable form of gas. The best example is where food waste, cooked or raw, is put into a miniature anaerobic digester and that directly produces gas for cooking facilities, through anaerobic digestion. I am aware that some hotels have installed them off their own back and are thrilled with the output from them. If every hotel in Ireland had these installed I could not quantify the amount of emissions reduction, but let us say it would be 0.01%. It all adds up in respect to the cumulative approach to reducing emissions. Is that something that could be looked at? Could we incentivise a grant aid for installation of these mini anaerobic digesters? I will give MyGug.eu, a west Cork based company, a shout about these dinosaur egg shaped anaerobic digesters. They are pleasing on the eye. I was contacted recently by some schools that want to install these for gas for their laboratories and home economics. However, it can be replicated in hotels, restaurants and cafés. It all adds up. Is that something that could be incentivised?