Ms Aoife MacEvilly:

The peat plants, when they were in operation, were never competitive in the market. That is why they were supported by the public service obligation, were required to be run on priority dispatch and then required additional payments over and above market prices. It does not seem to be the case that the peat plants would have made a difference. Also, the scale of what is needed, in terms of generation on the system, would never have been provided by those peat plants.