Mr. Mike Quinn:

We will need 2.3 million tonnes of biomass by 2020. There is not enough indigenous biomass to support that. What we have committed to is for every tonne of domestic biomass we secure, we will displace an imported tonne. There are private biomass projects coming on stream. Members may have seen the announcement yesterday of the new station in Mayo, which needs 500,000 tonnes. We believe the market for biomass will be between 5.6 million and 5.8 million tonnes by 2025. Ireland currently generates 990,000 tonnes. That demonstrates the gap between domestic gap and overall potential demand. Through BioEnergy Ireland with Coillte, we are looking at three potential streams of biomass supply - domestic supply, internationally sourced and internationally owned. We hope to mix these three supply streams evenly across the overall demand.