Ms Ellvena Graham:

We can import electricity. I refer the Deputy to what I said earlier in terms of our wanting to have our own secure supply of electricity as an island. To do that, we have to have our own generation capacity. We also have to have that if we want to meet our renewable targets. Currently, approximately 10% or 11% of ESB's electricity is generated from renewables. Our target is to generate 25% of our electricity from renewables by 2025. The Government has set a target of 40% of electricity for Ireland as a whole to be generated from renewables by 2020.

The ESB is playing its part in that. Our target as a company, and what we have signed up to, is to have 25% of our generation from renewables by 2025.