Professor Pat Shannon:

I did acknowledge at the outset that we certainly recognise the need to move to a lower carbon future. I would like to come back to some of the facts. Europe imports three quarters of its oil and 50% of its gas. A certain amount of that comes from Norway but a third of Europe's gas comes from Russia. The UK is an importer so when we import gas into Ireland, one way or another gas is being imported from outside of the EU.