Professor Michael Morris:

Within part of our co-funding, there is a researcher in University College Cork and another in Trinity who are actively looking at how to reuse lithium. At the moment, it is not reused. They are also looking at alternatives, including sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium batteries. We have about five years' worth of lithium that we can mine, which is not enough to meet even the demand for batteries for vehicles. As a result, it is absolutely critical that we participate in that research.