Mr. Brendan Murphy:

To maximise the level of wind that the system needs and can withstand, there will have to be back-up dispatchable plans. It is about having the two sources working together. Maximising wind will require gas-fired power stations, while to decarbonise the emissions, CCS will have to be used. They work well together, although that is not just my opinion but also that of the UK Committee on Climate Change. We envisage them working in harmony.

On the Kinsale field, as I mentioned, we have done a lot of work on the parts of the infrastructure we want to keep. We want to keep the onshore and offshore pipelines but do not want to keep the platforms. We have looked at the matter very carefully and said we do not need to keep them. In fact, the decommissioning plan would maintain the onshore and offshore pipes for a number of years to come. There is not a burning decision to be made to do this in the next year or two. It might be different if we needed the platforms, but we do not. Therefore, the decision does not have to be made in the next year or two.