Ms Margie McCarthy:

I will be brief. In a general sense, the SEAI research, development and deployment programme is our annual competitive call and support for research. We do quite an amount of consultation across Departments, State agencies and internally with our own experts across delivery programmes to identify topics where there are gaps in the knowledge and in the way we can deploy and deliver in-market but also around technologies for the longer term. Within the same call we also have an open topic, so ideas can be proposed by the applicant. That is open to both industry and universities. Collaborations are what we are really looking for across those groups. That will open in the coming days for this year but, unfortunately, I do not have to hand what research we have in play currently or what awards are out there, but it is certainly an opportunity where we look at topics such as the one the Deputy raised and support them through that scheme.