Mr. Mark Foley:

I can help with this, and I mention the context of electric vehicles. Where the house will be consuming power, we have a clear handle on that because our business is to get power down through the transmission system. Nobody has yet come up with an articulation of a technical, regulatory and pricing solution for the consumer to send power the other way. There is currently no solution on the table. Discussions have been ongoing. The ESB has a significant role to play in that and it ultimately comes back to us. That remains very unclear. There is no technical, regulatory or pricing offer yet but when it comes consumption at the consumer level, such as with electric vehicles, we have very much taken account of what the future demands scenario might be.

I am aware that there was a Citizens' Assembly recommendation. Work remains to be done jointly between ourselves, the ESB and others and we are talking to the ESB about that.