Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Yes, next month. That was accounted for last year. The way the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform requested that this be done was that all of the money be drawn down before the end of the calendar year, then the money was transferred to ESB Networks to make sure it had the entire €1.6 billion for distribution to customers by the end of the year.

The Deputy asked about subhead B13, emergency generation capacity. The expectation is that no money will be required for that. The Exchequer portion of that money has been spent. I understand that other parts of the emergency generation work are funded by EirGrid from its own capital budget and the transmission use of system charge, TUoS, levy as well. Between the TUoS levy and EirGrid's expenditures, we do not expect there will be any Exchequer expenditure on emergency generation capacity for 2023.