Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I want to flag something with the Minister. I am on the board of a rivers trust, and one of the key problems is that we have a lot of fantastic expertise but we do not have any administrative support. When you go for funding it is difficult to get any money to provide that. We have the best experts when it comes to ecology, river management and so on, but we do not have the administrative people to drive projects, grant funding and that kind of stuff. I raise that as a key problem for us.

I move to a different topic because I will get in trouble with the Chair. The issue was raised earlier about data centres and oil, and even gas, provision for data centre power. I know the Minister sent a direction to Gas Networks Ireland. My understand is that there may be a legal issue with that, because it was sent a considerable time ago. Is the Minister aware of any legal impediments with regard to that direction, and will they be resolved through legislation?