Mr. Justin Moran:

I will keep my answer brief then. When we engage in a most progressive way with communities, I think communities see not just that they are being listened to but that the project changes in response to the points and queries they make. That is really important. It is not enough to go into a community hall, listen, take notes and go home.

We need to come back and say my product is different because I have tried to meet them halfway. That has led to a change in attitude towards wind energy. If we look at the polling attitudes on support for wind energy, it is very high right across the board, including in rural Ireland, and in response to questions on when local infrastructure goes near to them. That is partly because we have great community engagement. We still need to do better. It is also partly that more and more people understand the role of onshore and offshore wind energy, decarbonising our system and tackling climate change.