Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

That is fine. Following on from Senator Cummins's point about the connection costs on brownfield sites, with the supply of infrastructure we can get more out of it by higher density infill development and compact growth than with the continuous sprawl, because the ESB is not expanding the network out. Is that something it takes into consideration? Compact growth is one of the objectives of the national planning framework. Does the ESB feed that into the national planning framework as a submission stating we can get much more out of our assets and deliver more with higher compact growth. We can forget the climate aspect of it and look only at getting the best value out of the structure we have already paid for.