Mr. Brian Brady:

That is correct. As Mr. Tarrant said, it is set out in the report that 9% of all faults came from forestry, but this is just the quantity. It is really about the effort and the duration of the work needed to do repairs. It is this that causes delays. As Mr. Tarrant also said, it took several days for some of them. In total, we had 50 harvesters mobilised during the storm to clear all those forests. What we have done since is to set out our winter resilience plan. We identified the outages in parts of the network and the customers most impacted by recent storms. We zoned in on 710 km of corridors in particular. Within that area, we narrowed it down further to 377 km. We have since drone-surveyed all of the areas. We went out to tender and secured harvester capacity to harvest some of those corridors. We have also gone to our regulator to secure funding to allow us to do work on them.

Within those 377 km, we have identified 44 km of particular concern. They are priority 1 corridors. There are about 317 sites. We will have contacted the owners of every one of those sites either this week or next week. We have engaged with all these landowners. We will cut a corridor to clear the network and make it resilient, with the agreement of the landowners only. We are providing compensation in line with current agreements to allow us to be able to do it. We are concentrating on private areas of forestry and we are working closely with Coillte, which is looking after the corridors we are concerned about in its forests.