Ms Aoife MacEvilly:

There are a couple of issues here. One is that, first, it is an energy efficiency target overall, it is not just for electricity. It might be that we still have to grow our electricity because the way we will improve our mean energy efficiency is to electrify heat and transport. It is just not clear yet. We might still have electricity demand growth even with that target. It is not just for a regulator to make a decision. These are major Government policy choices in terms of how we allocate the burden sharing across sectors like transport and agriculture, not to mind within electricity as one of the sectors. It is something that we are aware of. Senator O'Reilly is correct. The more we can deliver energy efficiency the better it solves the problem almost before we have to start building more infrastructure. This is a very new area where Government policy will be required. The SEAI and other actors will have a critical role in that.