Mr. Ronan Coffey:

I am the global energy manager with Boston Scientific. I can certainly give an industry perspective on this. The operational costs of the electrification of heat are a major concern for our manufacturing plants. The solution in question is very deployable to decarbonising our energy streams and one to which Boston Scientific is committed. However, there is a challenge concerning the additional burden of operational costs as we move from natural gas-based heating infrastructure to electricity-based infrastructure. At our plants in other parts of the world, the gap between the cost per kilowatt hour of electricity and that of natural gas is much narrower, and therefore deploying these solutions does not add as much of a burden to the business. In Ireland, the gap is quite significant and does present a challenge.