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

We will have to bring legislation forward to establish it. The monitoring of the facility will be clear. I will just say that the threats are not perceived. They are real. There are real threats to our communications and energy infrastructure. One point I did not come back to the Deputy on was how we will continue to reduce our dependence on fossil fuel, which we are doing. The NDP will be clear in grid investment and ORE investment. The national DMAP will be critical, and we will further support that, so we have an accelerated DMAP for our whole maritime environment to further accelerate offshore renewables. As regards the reporting on the facility, it will be State owned. It will be run through GNI and will be absolutely transparent. I can assure the Deputy of that. These decisions are not taken lightly. However, in my view it would have been dereliction of my duty as a Minister on behalf of our people to ignore a risk put forward so clearly by two independent reports as a matter that needed to be addressed. The Oireachtas will have a big role in this.