Mr. Noel Cunniffe:

I have two points to add to what Dr. Ryan said. Regarding long-duration energy storage, if the market sends the signals for those projects, they will be there. Many of those types of technologies are going into planning for multi-day storage so we can utilise the dispatch down energy referenced by the Deputy and use when we do not have wind or solar available. Regarding the interconnector flows, one of the biggest challenges we have here is the fact that our wholesale market prices are too high. For a number of years, we have been calling for a cost of renewable electricity task force to see how we can look at the overall bid stacker costs of developing renewable energy projects, identify the policies that sit within those costs and see what we can do to minimise and bring them down so that we can make renewable energy even more affordable for consumers today. It would be brilliant to see this Government take it on board.