Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I agree. There were challenges with rural electrification. They were very clever and sent all sorts of people around the country with the message that it was safe. It would be fair to say that if we had to do it nowadays, it would never happen. This is a big challenge in our society. We will have to put up with the infrastructure onshore. I live in an area where there was a very poor supply of electricity initially. There is now a mill processing 600,000 tons of timber and we can imagine its energy usage. Power lines have been brought into the area from all directions. Fair play to the community; people have accepted the trucks and power lines in return for economic prosperity. We as a nation have to start making sure the right choices are made and get on with it.

Dividing between onshore wind and offshore fixed wind is a crucial parameter, as is offshore floating wind. What are the revised targets between the three for the next five years or up to 2030? Everything will stop in 2030. Either we will have achieved the targets by 2030 or we will all stop.