Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The objective is that by 2030 up to 200 anaerobic digestion plants will be fed primarily by grass. Farmers in a locality will be growing grass crops in a sustainable manner and growing grass crops to feed anaerobic digestion plants, which will be producing biomethane gas. This will have the capacity for a 10% target of our total national needs to be produced in that way by 2030. It will be an option available for farmers, and it will be an income stream, obviously. It would also be a diversification option. Some farmers involved in other sectors at the moment could decide if this is something they want to do. There would be a network then across the country, but appropriately spaced given the capacity of a local area to serve it. Also going into that would be slurry as a way of managing slurry. Slurry and grass will be very significant then.