Ms Aoife MacEvilly:

It has not necessarily come up as a significant issue with this particular type of plant. In delivering more renewables more quickly, a new renewable support scheme is being developed by the Department called RESS. There is a real understanding that our new connection policy for new renewables has to line up with that scheme to ensure applicants have a clear ability to both get the support and the connection.

In the case of offshore, where there is a marine area and foreshore policy being put in place, we are aware that we need to start lining up these processes to ensure we can deliver more rapidly the types of lower cost renewables which are needed, not just for our 2020 targets but for the development of the 2030 targets. We are working with the Department on that and we will work with others as needed to ensure that alignment is in place.