Mr. Noel Cunniffe:

I understand the public consultation question relates to the price review query. Colleagues in EirGrid and ESB Networks might be best placed to answer on that one. On behalf of the wind energy industry, we are extremely supportive of providing the resources and revenue that EirGrid and ESB Networks need to be able to deliver the network. There might be increases in network costs but if we can deliver that network, we will be able to utilise more of the renewable energy that is being wasted, which was referred to earlier, which will drive down wholesale prices. I believe that all committee members will have in their inboxes today the results of our latest wind energy report from June, which showed that on the days we had the most wind energy available on the system last month, prices were 40% lower than on the days when we could not use wind or we did not have it available. The more we enable that through building the network, the better.