Dr. Eimear Cotter:

The potential outlets for waste tars is to be used as a fuel in cement kilns or our waste energy incineration plants. It is important to say that the regulation of such a process would happen under the EU industrial emissions directive and therefore the licence that would regulate how those plants operate would impose very strict emission limit values and other conditions to ensure that no environmental pollution would occur as a result of such co-firing with waste tars.

In terms of cement plants we would impose conditions where a cement plant would have to undertake a test programme for each waste stream to ensure they burn in accordance with the licence conditions and within the emissions limit values. Were it to happen it would be very much regulated under the industrial emissions directive.

If it is okay I will ask my colleague, Dr. Tom Ryan, to respond to the enforcement question.