Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

-----but we are seeing the uptick this year. Different bodies and agencies are giving different projections. We will have a better sense of the final outturn in quarter 3 and we have different forecasts.

There are constraints on the grid but the Government's position is that the reason we are providing direct equity to ESB and EirGrid is to create much greater abundance and plan for the future so we can attract digital infrastructure for the future. A key part of our future economic growth will be ensuring we decarbonise our economy with renewable energy and we are making that happen and there is ambition to do that. It will also be about having the digital infrastructure in place. Investment, globally, is centered on AI and on digital infrastructure more generally and we have to be part of that if we want to keep the tech ecosystem in Ireland, the jobs and the investment. That is a balancing act between managing the constraints of today but ultimately planning for further investment in digital infrastructure. The binary argument for and against data centres in recent years has not helped the Irish proposition in the context of the need, in my view, to have digital infrastructure in place. The Deputy is right that we have to manage the balancing demands and that is why-----