Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Over the past couple of weeks we published the anaerobic digestion or biomethane strategy. This lays out how we can produce 10% of all of our annual gas requirements by 2030 from farms, with grass in particular being very much at the centre of this. I was glad to attend a conference yesterday in Croke Park, organised by the Renewable Gas Forum Ireland, RGFI, with some 350 people from the industry involved. There was a really good energy there and there is an appetite to step forward and realise the potential for anaerobic digestion and biomethane production. In particular, we want to ensure farmers are the centre of this process and contributing significantly to energy production. I look forward to seeing that. The publication of the biomethane strategy and a whole-of-government approach to put in place a policy platform to see it develop was a landmark step forward.

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