Ms Patricia Comiskey:

I am happy to take that question because we are one of the companies looking to run cable routes up the Shannon. It is part of our proposed approach, as well as other potential cable route landing points, so we will issue our scoping report for that project, in particular, in the coming month. We will welcome feedback on it from all the NGOs, but especially the IWDG. Our preference is that we look at some form of national mechanism for a cable route in the Shannon or to work closely with our competitors to look at a cable corridor.

Our preference is to look at that type of scenario. We believe it is a sensitive area, as the Chairman will be aware. Our preference is to mitigate any impact as much as possible.

There are other cables in the Shannon area, but they cross between Moneypoint and Tarbert. There certainly are cables in the Shannon already but they are in different locations. All that will be taken into account as part of any assessment we carry out.