Mr. P?draic ? hUiginn:

I wish to address two points raised earlier by Deputies Browne and Kerrane. On the learning, in one sense the sample we have in Ireland is probably a bit small, but in terms of learning from France, where there has been much more deployment, we worked on an EU-funded project called BioBase4SME with an agricultural chamber of commerce, namely, the Association of the Chambers of Agriculture of the Atlantic Area, AC3A. Its key learning was early engagement with communities. That was one key learning.

A brief point on district heating. While biomethane will be generated in an area where, as was outlined earlier, the heat demand is not there and the biomethane will go to a higher end use, for district heating the waste which was mentioned from data centres will be key for district heating. The likes of wood chip will also. A bioenergy solution for district heating is wood chip rather than biomethane. That is being used to some extent across Europe.