Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Meally explained that well and I thank him for that. I have a question for Ms Ward. The Green Atlantic offshore wind farm off the coast of counties Clare, Kerry and Galway is a significant project. That power will be brought on shore at Moneypoint, where there is already a €50 million synchronous compensator converting it to storable hydrogen fuel. The ESB is very involved in this project but it seems that only Bus Éireann, which has stated that it will have hydrogen buses, is grasping it. Bus Éireann already has many hydrogen buses in Dublin city. It will use that fuel and be a main customer of the scheme. No one has spelled out who else will use this hydrogen fuel, however. There is a high-level strategy on it. From the point of view of consumers, however, offshore electricity will be brought on shore and converted to hydrogen but the question is who else will use it. Has the ESB any policy or marketing strategy to get that fuel into cars as well?