Ms Catherine Joyce-O'Caollai:

We hope that the hydrogen strategy will be published imminently. It is important to point out that the EU has given quite clear indicators as to what constitutes hydrogen and it will allow existing renewables to be used to produce hydrogen until 2027. If we are able to move at a sufficient pace, we hope we will see early scale hydrogen projects deployed on the ground in the next couple of years. A couple of facilities have planning in place for electrolysers and a number of our members are about to lodge planning applications. The framework allows hydrogen to be produced from existing renewables. After that, it will have to come from additional renewables, and the pipeline and the biggest opportunity for Ireland is definitely offshore wind, but I do not think we can ignore the gift that has been given in using our existing resources.