Mr. P.J. McCarthy:

On the global number, again we are going back to the market to test the market, considering the supply chains at the moment. Going back nine or 12 months, the funding for the 125 AD plants was in the region of €1.5 billion, so allowing for increasing costs we are saying €2 billion and 50% of that is €1 billion. It would be significantly going towards achieving that conservative figure of 700,000 tonnes but it would be scalable industry that would address agriculture and transport, which are two of the areas that are most difficult to decarbonise in this country.

We need to be moving quicker and the question is why are we not. The framework is already set out with the renewable energy directive II and the Paris Agreement, so we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We are suggesting a number of measures and one of the key measures is an AD charter that stitches in that we collaborate with all parties and key stakeholders, act responsibly to the environment and that there are no negative environmental consequences to what we are doing. Let us measure that. We measure that through carbon farming and the measurable, reportable and verifiable, MRV, guidelines set out in the Paris Agreement. We do not need to reinvent the wheel. It is already there. We need to design it and address and we have looked at that through the work we are doing in project clover.