Mr. Martin Finucane:

It is part of the transition in the electricity system. In pulling Moneypoint and the three peat fired stations out of the system approximately 1.2 GW or so of dispatchable power will come off the system. In the same time period, over the decade, there will probably be a number of older gas fired plants retired from the system. The Deputy mentioned the DS3 programme. It is allowing us to use increasing amounts of intermittent renewables. In order to balance this with the dispatchable and dependable load, we have to manage our way through the transition. It is not that we can switch everything off tomorrow morning and suddenly replace it. It is a question of moving across in a balanced fashion and a way that will also allow us to plan for the replacement of these stations. In the time something comes onto our system, is built and becomes operational, a few years will elapse. Therefore, this is part of a managed transition across-----