Mr. Paul Sheridan:

I will take that question. Right now, when you are looking for planning permission, there is such a high bar to demonstrate that you will actually cause no harm to the environment whatsoever. It is a very difficult hurdle to get over. What you really need to do is to take a sustainability approach over the whole life cycle of a project and ask what impact it will have on the environment and then mitigate and manage that risk through the process. We cannot build roads, data centres or pharmaceutical plants without turning sod. That is just the reality. The industry is totally supportive of sustainability approaches but what we need is predictability in the process. We need it to be timebound, to be able to get in early with these things, and for each of the bodies associated with a consent related to the environment to be aligned and working together. What happens right now is parties look for consent from a particular agency that is set up by the State. The agency is happy with A but not happy with B. The parties go off and make the relevant change, but when they go to the next State body, it is not happy with A and they have to go back again. They get into this loop. The idea is that we need to mitigate and comply with the law and environmental standards but we cannot get over bars that are esoteric. We have to deliver.