Mr. Michael Maloney:

The very simple reason climate change and sustainability are under a separate heading in our submission is we were asked to submit under four headings - Origin Green, climate change and sustainability, market diversification and talent. The Deputy is correct. Sustainability is an integral part of the Origin Green programme which operates at two levels. It operates for food companies and at farm level. At farm level, farmers are members of Origin Green by being part of our sustainable assurance schemes, our quality assurance schemes with sustainability added. Farmers are required to give us data that allow us to calculate the carbon footprint on their farms. As mentioned in our submission, to date we have made over 170,000 of those carbon footprint calculations. The provision of that information allows us to feed back to the farmer his or her carbon footprint relative to his or her peers and we can demonstrate where improvements can be made. We are moving on to look at other areas surrounding biodiversity, water quality and all of that. We are gathering the information which we will analyse and show to farmers to show them where improvements can be made at farm level.