Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We are only starting this revolution. The dance is only starting in the integration with variable demand. It is the demand side and variability on it which have overcome the system inertia and other difficulties, including the physics, that we recognise are real challenges. If we are committing to build, let us say, 5 GW of offshore wind in the Irish Sea, as we should and as we have been discussing for ten years, it is interesting to hear Mr. Foley cite TenneT and Energinet, the Dutch and Danish TSOs. What is the strategy in that 5 GW? Will it all be brought ashore in Ireland and then shipped via interconnection to the UK and France or will some of it head east initially? Have people been looking at the Isle of Man as a collection point? One might have a DC connector there. Have people been looking at the Scottish bootstrap coming down to connect into the Irish Sea? Have we finalised-----