Mr. Brendan Gildea:

At the beginning, in 2005 when I got my certificate in renewable energy, I would have set up an anaerobic digestion plant at that time if there was Government backing, but no matter what way I looked at it, I needed 50% grant aid. When that came along with the Irish Bioenergy Association grant, it stacked up for me. Instead of it being a 14-year payback, it was a six- to seven-year payback. Our feedstock is all waste. We do not put any fresh silage in. There are no trailers going up and down the road. We are not drawing from anyone else. It is an on-farm process using cow slurry, waste silage and straw bedding from under the cattle.