Dr. James Carton:

I will respond to Deputy Farrell's question on what a wind hydrogen project is. This is where a wind farm is connected directly to an electrolyser on a floating platform at sea. There is an example of this being developed at present in the Netherlands. I believe another project is being developed in Scotland and there are others in Japan and South Korea. There are all at relatively large scale. The Moneypoint site might not be a good area to develop it because it can connect to very big cables coming into Ireland. Hydrogen could be developed on-site in other places off the coast of Donegal, Mayo, Galway and south Kerry that do not have cable infrastructure and may never have it. The hydrogen could then be moved around. Whether for export or internal is up to the economics.