Professor Brian Norton:

Indeed. Action Renewables is a charity established in Northern Ireland. My technical expertise is in renewable energy. I am involved in charitable work - it is a charity - in a private personal capacity outside of work to promote renewable energy. I previously worked with the University of Ulster and had a link through that university to the promotion of renewable energy in Northern Ireland. Action Renewables is, as I say, a charity. Its activity is to develop and assist in policy measures and interventions with those who want to promote renewable energy, such as developing capabilities. For example, the renewable energy training academy in Northern Ireland, which was an INTERREG activity, came through Action Renewables. The all-Ireland grid study has enabled electricity that goes North-South throughout the island and it came out of a study done by Action Renewables. It is about enabling measures for renewable energy. If there are particular schemes that are introduced, and the renewable heat incentive was such a scheme, Action Renewables will advise those who want to avail of those schemes on how to do so. There are a number of schemes. There are schemes for photovoltaics, wind energy and others. Around 20% of the applicants came to Action Renewables. That is actually quite a small proportion of the overall whole. It was a small part of the organised activity. I chair Action Renewables as a charitable activity as part of the public good. I receive £2,000, which I donate to charity.