Mr. Pat Farrell:

We have looked at it, although not hugely, and the volume of waste we have on the farms would not be sufficient to run a digester. Moreover, as the Senator will be aware, not everything can go into an anaerobic digester at the same time. There is a science behind it. Nevertheless, if there were one in north Dublin, for example, it could be used by us and other people. Given that there is a big horticultural area in that part of Dublin, that could feed into an anaerobic digester. In Northern Ireland, one or two companies use waste food products, along with crops, silage and other things, for renewal. I think we would be 100% behind that. We have looked at it, and there probably is funding through producer organisations and so on, but we would not have the scale necessary. As we said earlier, if there were a collaboration between a number of companies and there were a better policy behind it, there would certainly be potential for the food product and waste to generate electricity. I agree there is great potential in that regard.