Mr. John McNamara:

On the first point, the perceived shift in public opinion is something of which we would be acutely aware as an industry, not only from my own commercial organisation. The scale of what is being projected needs early community engagement and needs companies and organisations to bring communities along at an early stage, explaining the process and the benefits, and looking at community gain very much in the round for society as well.

On the targets and bypasses, it is important in the context of any export of electricity that there are national targets that need to be achieved before export can be facilitated under the RES-E directive. I suppose one of the points we would raise is that we are aware that in the context of the ongoing discussions between the British and Irish Governments there are joint steering committees working on this. We will begin to see how that value will eventually precipitate out in the coming months, probably at the back end of this year or early next year. It may be prudent to wait to see how that would wash out in the long run.