Mr. Gerry Britchfield:

Deputy Pringle referred to the fact that we made a comment that over 20% of the installed wind energy capacity in Ireland is on lands formerly owned by Coillte. That reflects our past policy. Our current policy would be to take the wind sites we have and develop them in partnership with others. As I said earlier, we have a number of sites that we have been developing over the past five years or so which are now almost ready to be brought to market and built out. We are proposing to develop those in partnership with people like the ESB. In terms of our past policy, as the committee is probably aware, wind energy sites take a very long time to come to fruition. In terms of the 20% of installed capacity, our policy in the past would have been to work with people who were expert in this area. I recall people like SERGAS who would have been in the market at very early stages and would have bought land from us to develop wind farms. That was a past policy but it still delivers a significant amount of capacity for Ireland in terms of reaching its renewable energy targets. Today, we are looking to capture more value by bringing them through the process to where they are actually viable and potentially operational wind farms in partnership with people in the business.