Mr. Leo Clancy:

As it stands, we do not know whether we could design a scheme that excluded data centres. The sectors we have excluded are excluded for good reasons, including legislative reasons. We are absolutely not permitted by legislation to support the sectors in question. We have a long-standing policy that rests on the reputation of the agency and State. The State has a very clear policy position on data centres, which Deputy Bruton summarised. The State regards data centres as important to national infrastructure, so we did not take the view that we should add them to an exclusion list, nor did we examine in detail whether we would do so from a policy perspective. I do not know the answer to the Deputy's question because it depends on Government policy; however, we are happy to examine the issue with our colleagues in government. Right now, I cannot give the Deputy an answer as to whether we could or would exclude data centres.