Mr. John Melvin:

Page 39 of the EY report carries a case study on the ESB plants that were bid into the T-4 auction for 2022 and 2023. That is laid out there and clear for all to see. Every consultation we carry out attracts differing views from industry. Some entities, as I said earlier, will ask for certain items, while other entities will say they are the wrong items and identify a different approach we should take. Those responses can be seen on our website and we conduct our consultations in public. One could pick any decision we make, look back on it in time and find someone who was against the decision the regulator made; that is almost inevitable.

Nevertheless, a significant number of what I would call non-incumbents have come in through the capacity market, some of which were entities that would have engaged with us. For example, there are new entrants in both the Dublin region and the broader region totalling 1,450 MW of name-plate non-incumbent people. As we spoke about at the previous meeting, we have a market-monitoring unit and if it receives complaints, it will follow up on them. We have to treat any complaints we follow up on with the strictest confidentiality, both for the complainant and for the entity against which the complaint was made. We have received a number of complaints and we are investigating them. That work is under way.