Mr. Noel Regan:

It is the member states who can make the decision to impose the rule for the gas. The member states would not contract it but would make rules so that there are certain levels of storage in the reservoirs. We do not have a gas storage reservoir in Ireland. We used to have one in south-west Kinsale but that has been decommissioned. There are rules to allow member states to hold that storage in other member states but that is somewhat complicated for us, obviously, now that the UK has left the EU.