Dr. Thomas McLoughlin:

I hope that it will be done in Brussels. The Government or the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications will be involved in those debates. It is at EU level.

I will answer one other question. The Deputy mentioned what happened many years ago in the States. There were a number of cases but that was in the early days of crops of GM technology. A few farmers took a case against a neighbour for cross-contamination. I think there were a few court cases and cross-contamination was found to have occurred because pollen will flow but the question was whether it caused environmental harm. If one grows oil-seed rape on the border of County Mayo and it went into the Deputy's county of Galway, then the question would be whether it caused environmental harm. I believe that would not. Those are the key things. There were a few court cases but we have not heard of any in years.