Mr. Ronan Gallagher:

It is not an area in which I am particularly expert; it falls to a colleague. The airline industry's climate change agenda is derived from initiatives by Europe and, at UN level, the ICAO. There is an emissions trading programme under which there must be offsets. The airlines are obliged to do that. In the context of this Bill, we will consider whether we can be specific on that matter. Under the Finnish Presidency, there will be a focus over the next six months on transport and climate change. The focus is increasingly on aviation even though, in proportion to other transport modes, it is not the largest contributor. Large advances in aircraft design and, more importantly, air navigation space management are being made. The technological investment in the latter is concerned with trying to streamline the movement of planes, reduce journey times - how much travelling they must do - and manage them into different strata of the upper-----