Mr. Kevin Brady:

I suggest a number of things are changing. I will take a few of the matters raised by the Deputy, starting with electricity. He mentioned offshore wind and solar energy. The existing support schemes are the renewable energy feed-in tariff, REFIT, schemes. The next generation of these schemes, the renewable electricity support scheme, is being developed. Two pieces of research on this are ongoing, one of which concerns the technologies involved. Offshore wind, solar, etc., are included in this. We are also considering a separate piece of research by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, to examine how communities can be better involved in renewable electricity. We hope to see the final public consultation on the renewable electricity support scheme take place later this year. The scheme would be very much aimed at not just 2020, but also beyond 2020, and would be the key support scheme for renewables for electricity. If we-----