Dr. Barbara Doyle Prestwich:

There is definitely an appetite to take it on at European level. I am part of a European Cooperation in Science and Technology, COST, action and we have more than 300 members from all EU countries. Ireland is not swimming against the tide at all. We have a project of work to do in terms of communicating with the public. Senator Daly alluded to that in his example of ash dieback and how different a modified plant would be from the original. In our business, we are still hearing the same or similar arguments that were out there 20 years ago about the technology and the public's fears, so there is definitely a communication project to be done in that regard.