Dr. Muireann Lynch:

We have gone through plenty of options in various papers and I will be happy to forward them to the committee. I attached a summary document of the three pieces of work in this area to my statement as an appendix. I do not know whether the Senator received it but I will be happy to forward it. The devil is in the detail but the point is that at the broad level we can make everybody better off whether or not they respond. If they responded they would get this extra benefit in that they would be no worse off financially than if they did not reduce their carbon consumption. If they did reduce it they would be better off again because they would be saving money on carbon and receiving money through the recycling mechanism that everyone has chosen.