Mr. Garrett Blaney:

The integrated single electricity market, I-SEM, project is driven in part by European compliance. This is the third package. The key driver is to ensure that the system on this island complies with all the various approaches taken across the rest of Europe. We have to do this and it will happen before Brexit is fully implemented.

We take comfort from the fact that there is a commitment the UK Government's White Paper on Brexit to say that it sees I-SEM and its continuation as important and that there have been similar indications from the Irish Government. We do not see an alternative to the I-SEM project. It is critical to deliver it for the consumers on the island. We need to be cautious and make sure we have done everything possible to ensure its continuation. We are not passive. We will actively seek to influence anything we see that may turn out as adverse to I-SEM. There are no indications of anything like that at present.