Professor Mark Ferguson:

I can do that. Deputy Sherlock asked about the research centres that would be involved in climate change. There are four, principally. MaREI is the Science Foundation Ireland, SFI, research centre for marine renewable energy. The SFI investment on that is €18.9 million, to the nearest €100,000. There is almost a comparable investment from industry and the EU for all these research centres but that is the SFI investment. BEACON, which is about the bio-economy and will be formally launched tomorrow in Lisheen, is an SFI investment of €15 million. iCRAG, which is about applied geosciences, is an investment from SFI of €24.8 million. VistaMilk, which was launched recently and is about precision dairy, is an investment from our Department and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine of €25.6 million. Each of those research centres do research that is relevant in some way or another to climate change. I extend a very warm welcome to the committee members to visit any or all of those research centres; we would be delighted to host them. MaREI is in Cork, as is VistaMilk, and BEACON and iCRAG are at University College Dublin.

Committee members would be very welcome and we would be happy to host them.

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