Mr. Nicholas Tarrant:

Looking at 2022, in our submission we referred to the 36% increase in the number of connections that were delivered last year. We have put in a range of measures and my colleague, Mr. Rossiter, will speak on those shortly. The resourcing point is key. The increase in resources that we have seen in the last 12 months include recruiting out in the marketplace and also growing our contractor capabilities. We are seeing that where we have pinch points in our work programmes in general we are looking to add contractor capability to grow that. If we consider the amount of infrastructure to be built over the next decade and across electricity in general, we need to continue to build that capability in the general workforce. That is a challenge. We are looking to grow our contractor capability beyond where it is today. For example, we are looking to bring in contracted personnel from outside the EEA region. We have written to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Simon Coveney recently and to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan in that regard. It is key that we continue to build resources. With regard to the ESB internally, the Deputy mentioned the apprenticeship programme. That is a very important area for us for the future. We have also done other things such as centralising our design function to really accelerate the amount of connection offers we can issue at early stages. Mr. Rossiter will say a little bit more about that.