Mr. John Melvin:

There is currently 1,000 MW of interconnection between Ireland and Great Britain: 500 MW connecting Northern Ireland to Scotland and 500 MW connecting Ireland to Wales. There is a new 500 MW interconnector currently in development to connect Ireland to further south in Wales. There is also a 700 MW Celtic interconnector in development to connect Ireland to Brittany in north-west France.

On the smart metering question, it is established in the European context under GDPR that the half-hour data are considered to be personal data. That changed as part of a move from opting in to taking services, to opting in to taking services from earlier versions of the smart metering project, which would have said "opting out". That move to GDPR and that clarity drives the customer choice piece to give the half-hour data to their supplier.