Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There have been challenges in other countries around growing a feed stock directly for anaerobic digestion. There have been challenges around food production, which is an important priority, and there are local environmental challenges in balancing the objectives. Obviously we want - and we have agreed politically to support - anaerobic digestion to the tune of 200 anaerobic digesters across the country but there is a careful balancing act between that imperative and the environmental risk of doing so.