Mr. Pat Barry:

We need an approach similar to that of the cross-government steering group on timber. We need to take that same approach for other biomaterials. All of government and industry should be working together to make recommendations as to how to develop this industry. In the Netherlands, which has a smaller agricultural sector than ours, the Dutch Government has invested €200 million into activating the biomaterials sector. It is looking at it from the grower side, the production side and the supply side. The three parts must be encouraged for it to work. If you do not have the growers, you cannot have the production. If you do not have the production, you cannot have the demand. You need to incentivise all three simultaneously. That does not happen accidentally. It requires a government strategy.