Dr. Barbara Doyle Prestwich:

In terms of the number of changes that could be incorporated, the simple answer is "Yes". As to the Deputy's question on the technology that is available on the island of Ireland, Dr. Badmi is a molecular biologist working in my lab in UCC. His project – he can say more about it himself – involves looking at the strawberry plant to develop a strawberry that is resistant to a particular disease using CRISPR. The technology is there to generate disease-resistant varieties that will have very few changes compared with the unmodified plant.