Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Perfect. I respect the Deputy’s acknowledgement of the ongoing work. He played a massive role in setting this course when he was Minister responsible for our initial climate action plan and putting in place metrics as to how that would be monitored.

On the biodigestion and anaerobic digestion, our target is that by 2030, 10% of all of our national gas requirement will be produced at farm level through anaerobic digestion. We currently have a strategy that we will publish by quarter 3 this year. On how we step that out at national level, we will shortly appoint the consultants who will oversee that strategy.

On funding in place, we have a commitment in the national development plan for approximately €25 million initially towards that. In addition, we have ongoing funding each year at the moment as well from the carbon taxes, some of which we have invested in a project in Cork on the Shinagh research farm. At the moment, we want to complete the strategy so we know exactly the approach we will take and then invest heavily and encourage investment to back that strategy up.

On early slaughter, we are making progress. We are looking further at how we can accelerate that. Under the beef data and genomics programme and the new beef suckler scheme, which we will launch in the next month or so, the metrics are being put in place to ensure we can achieve-----