Mr. Declan Hughes:

I think they have 100 jobs in new recycling operations and then somewhere between 150 and 300 new jobs in wider green business projects. We are in discussions with some of them through Enterprise Ireland on how they can be taken forward, so there are some interesting proposals. One will see them in the plan there around acquaculture and herbs and the energy park and I know they are looking at some other ones as well. They have a very good asset base, and the issue is how we can develop products which would meet markets. Certainly there is demand for some of those products and, climatically, we are good in terms of potential for growing them as well and we have that asset base.

On the more general issues around the horticultural extraction, I do not have the detail on that but I would say more generally there are always opportunities. If there are opportunities for alternative uses or alternative products etc., Enterprise Ireland, EI, and the local enterprise offices are available to work with entrepreneurs locally. It is something EI will be working with, similarly through the Education and Training Boards, ETBs, with individuals to see if are there business opportunities which they might take forward if they were replacing existing products or developing new products.