Mr. Kieran Donoghue:

I thank the Secretary General. It is a very interesting question. I would say that the vast majority of the sectors that we target are relatively low emitters of CO2. Considering the composition of our business, a lot of it is now services rather than manufacturing and those businesses tend to have a low carbon footprint and are attracted to compact, urban centres with public transport and so on. In terms of the commuting patterns associated with their workforce and the type of goods and services they deliver to the global marketplace, we do not associate them with potential damage to the environment from a carbon emitting perspective.

On the manufacturing side, the types of clients that we win in the life science and bio-pharmaceutical sectors have all embraced very strong environmental agendas at corporate HQ overseas. They bring those agendas into Ireland and we see them immediately taking steps at their local sites to embrace 100% renewable energy and to take a range of actions consistent with the best interests of the environment. Specifically in response to the question, we have never had to turn down an investment on the basis that it was high carbon emitting. We have not come across that scenario.