Mr. Denis O'Leary:

It is really difficult to answer that question. It is more a question for the Department. Anything to do with state aid is managed 100% by it. The ESB would have no involvement in it whatsoever. It is about the State getting clearance to make an intervention for a particular reason. I am not an expert when it comes to state aid, but I know that it is a very time-consuming process. We would then have to get into a procurement process which would also add time, as would appointing contractors. Time would be be added all the time before we would reach a period in which the infrastructure could be built. Without knowing the first timeline which would be the difficult one, it is very difficult to answer the question.