Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy raised a couple of significant things. Price review 6, PR6, which is effectively the investment in the grid between 2026 and 2030, will be in place and agreed this year. It will be multiples of what PR5 was and will be at least €13 billion. This will allow the expansion of our grid, both in capacity and distribution of energy across it. PR6 will provide for the 50,000 additional homes a year that are planned over that period. We will plan for economic growth as well.

Under PR6, we do not envisage any new connections for data centres in that period. I mentioned the headroom that is given from the 21% to 30%. That comes from the existing data centres expanding or those already with connection agreements. We have to expand our grid for all types of economic and social development. This idea that data centres are gobbling up energy makes it sound like they are wasting it. They are not-----