Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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Corrib is a gas exploration and extraction facility, so it is different from power generation. The lifetime of the field is determined by how much gas is there. There was talk recently in the newspapers about there being potentially larger reserves than might originally have been expected. That is a matter for the company. That is not something we can determine. There is real potential down the line. If we look at the facility there, particularly when we will be developing offshore wind power in the north west, there must be potential for the use of some of those offshore or other facilities to help tap into the offshore wind that is available to us. I expect it will have a role in the future in some way that has not yet been determined.