Ms Marguerite Sayers:

We are aware of the trial. We have spoken to local authorities at various times but it is not an area that we see ourselves getting engaged in much at present. We are concentrating on rolling out the other charging hubs and the networks I spoke about. It is an area of interest but there are many players that could get involved in it. The ESB is but one. We are doing our bit but the Deputy might find that others are doing something else in parallel. While we are keeping an eye on the matter and have spoken to the council, it is not something we see ourselves getting involved in in the immediate future. As the Deputy said, the ESB does not own the public lighting networks at all. While it looks like we could leverage what the Deputy has described within our own resources, the networks are not ours.