Mr. Brendan Tuohy:

Yes. I use "we" to refer to Ireland. I will distinguish between them. As a country we have grown and part of the challenge is to keep up the infrastructure. Over the years one of our great selling points internationally was that we never lost a project because of a failure to deliver electricity. It was a real selling point when in India and other places projects were lost because they could not deliver a secure and reliable system. Gas power is approximately 50% of our generation network.

For the foreseeable future, it will be of that order. It is simply the way that one needs stability on the network. As I stated earlier, the renewables come in but one can never guarantee them. They are so-called "non-dispatchable". As for the meaning of "dispatchable", a gas or coal generator will turn on immediately whereas, if I am waiting for the wind, no matter how predictable it is,-----