Ms Siobhán O'Shea:

With regard to the north Connacht line, I will go back to the 400 kV station that was originally proposed for the area under Grid West. Many lessons have been learned regarding public engagement since then. EirGrid has significantly increased its public engagement, particularly in the last five years. That has been really helpful with projects coming through since. With regard to north Connacht, that is a very significant project. It includes a 100 kV underground cable. It will release approximately 475 MW of constraint for renewables in the area. Even on that project, there was a lot of local engagement. There were concerns about disruption to Swinford and Foxford. There was an awful lot of engagement through the municipal districts and local communities and the routes were changed. Work was also done with TII because its infrastructure and ours coalesced where cables were run underground. A lot of work was done with TII to achieve the best possible solution and outcome for everybody. That project is well progressed now. It is in delivery with our construction partners, the ESB. It is due for energisation in 2028.

On constraints in the Mayo area, while I cannot comment on any specific customer in the area, we are developing a number of projects in the north west. This will be right down from Letterkenny. We will be going out to consultation in the area in the north west in September. We will be very happy to engage further either in advance of that or during the consultation period.