Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses. I will pick up on a related issue. The wind energy industry's conference is on in Dublin this morning. I attended the morning session. One of the issues raised was the process in dealing with EirGrid regarding grid connection offers and how that relates to applying for RESS. Mr. Foley made the point about a lack of confidence in the auctions for gas and how that is maybe a symptom of the design of those auctions and the bureaucracy in that regard. One of my points relates to enduring connection policy, the time taken for decisions from EirGrid, and the physical letter, which acts as an entry point to the RESS auction. For example, how many offers has EirGrid made to projects that were cleared in enduring connection policy, ECP, 2.3, which was 16 months ago?