Ms Caroline Bocquel:

Seaweed has a great deal of potential but the key, as the Cathaoirleach mentioned, is finding the markets where we are going to be able to achieve high values for seaweed. Through our innovation studio, we are working with some Irish companies that are looking to valorise it into the nutraceutical industry and, as Mr. O'Sullivan mentioned, into food additives and the pharma sector. We know that in order to valorise it, because we need so much of it by volume in order to extract the powders that are needed, producers need to get the very highest price. In the past year, we appointed somebody who is working on this matter. It is a complex area, but on in which there is a lot of potential. The vast majority of seaweed is still coming from wild harvest rather than aquaculture. I will pass over to my colleague Mr. Campbell in case he wants to say a few words.