Mr. Jim Gannon:

We are supportive of the idea. An example of that is the recent data centre policy, published in July 2023, the outcome of which was a Government policy statement that said there should be activity across Government Departments and State agencies and a plan-led approach should be adopted. That involves planning, environmental licensing, energy regulation, semi-State involvement and enterprise policy and how it interacts with spatial policy. That sort of guidance is given. To take it down to the next level, there is our energy demand strategy, which we have also consulted upon. We are engaging with the enterprise agencies and the commercial semi-State bodies and system operators in that discussion. What we are seeing is that, in certain cases, we had legislation to provide for access to energy, for example, through electricity or gas connections, that was premised on the primacy of access to energy connections and energy. Such legislation did not consider this new mandate in respect of the climate Act. There are certain parts of legislation in which we need to consider the balance between what existed in the past and what exists now in respect of climate action and carbon budgets to facilitate that sort of response. That is why we are supportive. That is a specific example that evidences that it would be helpful.