Mr. P.J. McCarthy:

With respect, they should be updated because they are already outdated. The figures we have from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and from Teagasc are reliable. The slurry is there and it is available. We are looking at dealing with current challenges. With those current challenges are opportunities and the potential to decarbonise. We did observe, and it is on the public record, that we went back to the SEAI with our concerns as an industry on some of its assumptions. With the best will in the world, it used artificial fertiliser as part of the costs of production. From this there was no reference to the better fertiliser value of digestate biofertiliser that goes back in. That was completely missed. What we are saying here as an industry is that biofertiliser is of better value. It is a biofertiliser that goes back in and replaces artificial fertiliser. With respect, there are some fundamentals in that assumption and those reports are incorrect and inaccurate.