Mr. Jim Gannon:

I will not repeat too much of what Dr. McGowan has said. Early and high-quality dialogue is very important for the delivery of infrastructure projects on a project basis, to speak to the community about need, options, alternatives and about the ultimate infrastructure that will go in place. Early and quality dialogue is very important. That means very clear, open and transparent communication.

Separately, the other dialogue I was discussing was an open dialogue with society about the fact that to transition to a place where we will have a decarbonised Ireland, where people can share in the value that this brings to us through smart meters and the different things we have mentioned today, people need to understand that it will require infrastructure delivery and infrastructure investment. Part of that is through understanding that to have a decarbonised television or car the electricity needs to be brought from the wind turbines, solar panels and batteries to the person's home and the person's community, and that this is something the person can participate in now. We might forward to the committee some of the consultation we performed last year on active consumers and communities. It would be useful for the committee to see our thoughts and reflections on the European directives in that regard. However, it must be an ongoing dialogue, and it must continue and be very open and transparent. We need infrastructure to unlock what we have, and what we have is an absolute surfeit of wind resource and a reasonably good solar resource. Between those two, if we exploit the right technologies and bring the right finance to it, we should get to a much better place.