Mr. Se?n Finan:

I will just pick up on a couple of the points that were made. Deputy Shanahan mentioned bioenergy and the industrialisation and intensification of agriculture. In fact, we believe that it would have the opposite effect. If we were to deploy bioenergy more widely across Ireland, it would actually result potentially in taking livestock off the land by giving farmers alternative economic opportunities, whereby they could scale back slightly, maybe, and keep some livestock but grow feedstocks for use in the production of energy or biomaterials in the broader bioeconomy. We would therefore not agree with the Deputy's point that bioenergy would promote the intensification-----