Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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Briefly, before we go on to that, I am told that there are about 40 projects ready to go. To be honest, one of the things we have to be most careful of in anaerobic digestion is that we do not do what happened up North, where there was a kind of carte blanche or whatever you are having yourself. They ended up having very significant air pollution and water quality problems. The most important thing to keep this as an income stream that is reliable for farming is that we get the environmental standards on water quality and digestate. I think this can be a good circular economy system, where you use the digestate from the anaerobic digestor to replace fertilisers, which reduces emissions and costs to the farmer. This is not new or rocket science; it exists right across Europe and we can deliver it. The Deputy can go on to transport.