Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is interesting. Mr. Walsh might provide us with a short paper on that, because it would be helpful to feed it in.

Other speakers have reflected already on this, but I want to go back to a conversation Mr. Walsh and I had concerning synthetic fuels and the opportunity that is there. It is very important in terms of climate change. Those who want to batter agriculture or aviation say the world has turned its face away from aviation as a contributor to global emissions, but there is a lot of work going on behind the scenes. Trinity College is doing some work with the support of Ryanair. Colleges in Limerick - the University of Limerick and the Technological University of the Shannon, TUS - and others are focusing on it. A project is under way, led by the ESB, on the generation of green hydrogen from offshore wind, which is expected to be coming ashore, hopefully, by the end of the decade. Could Mr. Walsh talk to us about the importance of that and the future for it, not just for the aviation sector and the positive benefit it would have from an emissions perspective but the potential in terms of the volumes and what that would do for job creation in the mid-west, which in itself could hopefully drive demand for more flights?