Ms Celine Crawford:

I just want to give Deputy Matthews and the committee members some idea where we have been working very closely with our Irish stakeholders. Ms Hughes is here from Transport Infrastructure Ireland which has an incredible sustainability implementation plan currently. We have been talking to Anne Graham of the National Transport Authority, NTA, also about its integrated ticketing and how that will be accessed by our visitors. We are also working closely with Irish Rail, which, as the Deputy knows, looks after Rosslare Europort. We have been in discussions with the port to ensure that it would be represented and on site. We are also looking at the wider picture including the Dublin Airport Authority. With regard to Rosslare, we are looking at the idea of energy and port storage.

From a freight perspective, what was very fascinating for us was when we went to our European management committee to talk about plenaries and speakers, it recommended An Post as an incredible example of the work that is done from a logistics perspective. That came from our management committee members from Europe. We had not proposed any Irish speakers at that stage and this insight came from our European colleagues. We are getting tremendous support from our local State bodies and our agencies, as well, as we said earlier, from the likes of Science Foundation Ireland, the Industrial Development Authority, IDA, and Enterprise Ireland. This is a tremendous opportunity. They are seeing it as such and we are all coming together to ensure that Ireland is represented at this level, not just at a European level but globally.