Mr. Denis O'Sullivan:

As I answer the questions my colleague will also contribute. As I mentioned, the plan has four pillars. I will start with compressed natural gas, CNG. We have rolled out the first station and at present, four stations are operating in the country. Another public station on the M7 motorway will open in the coming weeks. A further six stations are in development and there is a pipeline of about 40 stations at the moment, with a trajectory towards the complement of 176 that I mentioned. There is significant demand on the part of haulage companies for us to take up this technology. To develop the industry we made available a grant fund which is part funded by the European Commission to support the transition from diesel-powered trucks and buses to CNG. When that was deployed, it was immediately taken up and sourced. Those trucks are now coming into use. Just last week our first international haulage firm, a Cavan-based company called Virginia International Logistics, which has been at the forefront in rolling out this technology, made the first delivery to France using CNG technology fuelled here and in France.

We have developed all the regulatory and safety frameworks required for renewable gas. We have also developed a renewable gas certification scheme, which is an important element in the development of renewable gas. We have injected the first renewable gas from an initial plant we built in Cush in County Kildare.

Moving on from that, our plan is to have several anaerobic digester plants directly connected to the network, while also grouping them into a centralised injection facility. The first centralised injection facility is currently being considered under Cork County Council's planning process. A decision on this is imminent. I will defer to Mr. Murphy on carbon capture and storage.