Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for that. In the response received from the Secretary General, he sets out that it should be noted that in July, the Dáil passed a Supplementary Estimate for the Department to allocate €200 million to a new subhead, B13, in the energy transformation programme area to fund the purchase by EirGrid of additional temporary generation capacity, which included a reallocation of €40 million from subhead B4, the residential and community retrofit programme. The next paragraph explains the breakdown of that. We should write back to Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department, to find out what the situation is with that generation capacity. Has it been secured? Is it on stand-by? What is the cost of it? What is it fuelled by? What type of fuel is being used in the generators? These are temporary emergency generators that are being imported. What is the current update on that? What is being spent on it? What are the generators being fuelled by?

Is it agreed that we write to Mr. Griffin? Agreed.