Mr. Fergal Leamy:

I will answer Senator Mulherin's questions first. On the issues of wind farms and communities, I accept that there have been issues with communication about wind farm development in the past. In the four we have developed, we have put a huge amount of effort into building much greater community engagement. We have now appointed people whose focus is to better bring along the community in those projects. I hear the Senator's concerns about that. We are very conscious about it. In the last few projects we have brought to market, we have been exemplars of the way to do things and of community engagement. That is not to say that it was always that way in the past.

On the wind corridors in forests and additional hectares, we have identified 600 ha in 25 sites across the State that we believe are ideal for this type of wind corridor, taking into account the suitability of the land, the distance from the grid, the distance from local communities and other areas that might be impacted. We believe a total of 1 gigawatt of power can be developed across those areas. We have done a substantial amount of work on that to ensure those sites can be available over the next years. I will ask my colleague, Mr. Gerard Murphy, to address foreign partnerships to give a sense of the contracts.