Mr. Eddie Burke:

I take the point the Senator makes about batteries, as I said, but I emphasise that the proposal on the maritime side has been criticised for indirectly promoting biofuels that can have questionable sustainability credentials, as the Senator mentioned. However, these fuels will need to be certified, and that certification is designed to ensure and to guarantee that the approach that has been taken is sustainable and that they are sustainable fuels. As I mentioned, this issue has been raised with the European Commission. The Commission has indicated that the regulation will use the well-to-wake emissions, that is, the whole life cycle of biofuels, to take account of the various issues. The reason for that is to help to address the kinds of concerns about biofuels that the Senator mentioned. Therefore, at Commission level and at a wider European level there is very much a consciousness of those types of issues. I just do not have the detail on batteries to answer the Senator in any real way. I apologise for that.