Mr. Martin Shanahan:

Ireland has developed a technology hub with which many countries would be extraordinarily happy and of which they would be very proud. The IT services sector, of which data centres are a part, account for €52 billion, or 16%, of the gross value added in the economy. The number employed in the sector is approximately 140,000. Those are very significant and high-value jobs. Ireland has moved from a situation where we did not have that kind of technology sector to having that kind of technology sector.