Mr. Mark Griffin:

-----and companies bid into that. The regulator and EirGrid manage that process.

The issues raised by the Chairman regarding biomethane and hydrogen will all form part of the mix. The key part from our perspective is that the gas generation that will be brought onto the system over the next number of years should, ideally, be methane and hydrogen-ready so that when we get the biomethane on the system, it will be more economic. The Chairman is right about the costs of this. When we look at biomethane in terms of the climate action plan, and when we consider the way the price of natural gas, which is very expensive, has gone over the last year or two and what the expectations are for the future, we see that it has become far more economic. Deputies Catherine Murphy and Carthy raised anaerobic digestion as potentially a big-income generator for the farming community. Producing biomethane that can be injected into the national gas network needs to be part of the mix.