Mr. Mike Quinn:

Not necessarily. We cannot keep squeezing staff numbers. We must start to grow our business again. Take the briquette factories for example. When the biomass briquette kicks in, we believe there will be a significant opportunity to develop a stove fuel. Some 100,000 stoves per year have been sold in Ireland over the past three years. There has been significant growth in the domestic stove market in the UK, to the extent that the solid fuel market there is growing again. Therefore, why can we not develop a product that is unique to fuels and manufactured in our briquette factories so that we can grow top line sales? Automation does not necessarily mean fewer jobs. It also enables companies to grow their top line, by enabling them be more efficient and more price competitive.