Ms Justina Corcoran:

I thank the Chair and the Deputy for the question. At the moment, microgeneration covers wind, hydro and solar but solar is the main show in town and the grants in place are for solar on the microgen side. There does not appear to be too much of a demand coming through on the wind. I am not overly familiar with the wind side of things because it is just not something on which too many questions or interest is coming through to us. We can look into the microgen a little bit more in how can we expand that scheme and consider whether there is that demand out there and if it is as straightforward as the solar PV. The solar PV, because it depends on light, is still a fairly good return during the daylight hours even in the winter months. At the moment there is nothing really there on the wind.