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

I will finish on that. As a member of this committee which deals with climate action, climate change and the environment, I do not want to see any practices that in any way harm the environment, but I am just giving feedback from constituents of mine and also from other people in the sector. It kind of played out in Mr. Flynn's initial answer in that he described a lot of caution around anaerobic digestion. This plays out when we compare it to Europe. I am not saying that we should have 10,000 plants here, but it is a proven technology on the Continent and we are going nowhere with it. I genuinely feel it could play such a vital role on a co-operative model where farms and food processing factories could feed into it. I am not talking about ADs on a massive scale but smaller scale ADs. The people in the sector feel they are being stymied at every corner by the EPA. I just want to give that feedback.