Dr. Lilian O'Sullivan:

In terms of that work, we have a project that has recently finished. As Dr. O'Mara said, there has been quite a lot of work done to be able to understand the extent of hedgerows. This is not an easy task. However, with the technologies that are now available to us, we know, in terms of the remote technologies, what works to be able to tell us the extent. What we had not done prior to the current project was to look at taking direct measurements, so we could ground truth these remote measurements. For the first time, through this work, we have biomass equations that can be related to management. With regard to that, we have two very distinct types of hedgerows emerging, namely, our very overly managed hedgerows, what I like to call the short, back and sides, versus our more escaped hedgerows. The results are as expected, of course. There is a lot more carbon stock and sequestration potential associated with those wider, more escaped hedgerows. We have a scientific publication done on this and a final report related to that. We also found a positive relationship with biodiversity, all of which is the type of science that will be able to try to address the type of questions and issues raised here.