Dr. Kevin Hanrahan:

I will provide a little more detail about the FAPRI-Ireland model. It is an aspatial partial equilibrium model and because ecological issues and the biodiversity challenges are definitely not aspatial, it is very difficult to have an ecological or biodiversity dimension to the FAPRI-Ireland model. Needless to say, Teagasc is active in this space. I will ask my colleague, Mr. Donnellan, to explain what we are doing to collect the information we would need before we would start to think about modelling this.