Mr. Gary Tobin:

I will come back to the Deputy’s comment on Scotland and other countries. One thing I would say in regard to Scotland is that it is obviously in a very different place from Ireland in the sense that it is kind of repurposing what was a very significant oil and gas industry - a fossil fuel industry - and trying to reinvent it. The Scots are in quite a different space from us. I also think there can be advantages for a country like Ireland, which I would categorise as a fast follower. The Scots are ahead of us for sure, and they have had great success, but they have also made mistakes and they will be the first to admit that. There is much that we can learn from their experience.

Mr. McDermot and I were in Bilbao for the WindEurope conference two weeks ago. Some 14,000 people from all around Europe were there and we met all of the manufacturers and developers. What they were all saying to us is that if we look at every country in the world that is interested in this space, they have all made mistakes, they all have challenges and they all have problems. Certain countries have done certain things brilliantly well and they have done other things very badly.