Ms Marie Donnelly:

Currently, and of course this can change, as a sector, like all sectors in Ireland, there is pretty much full employment and there is scarcity. It is a sector that is perhaps not as badly affected with a capacity constraint as, for example, the housing sector is. This is a very specialist area and the investors here are able to programme the availability and in some instances bring in expertise from abroad in order to facilitate the construction. Of itself, until now, that has not been a constraint but that could change. Deputy Whitmore is quite right that it is an issue that we need to continue to monitor but I do not think it is a basis for saying that data centres should not contribute their fair share to the generation of renewable electricity for the country.