Ms Aoife MacEvilly:

This is an important area and we will examine it in the context of our demand-side strategy. We will examine the connection policy for large users connecting to both the electricity and gas networks because it is so critical. These large users can have significant impacts on our climate action targets and the carbon ceiling. We must examine how to bring these large users in so they are zero carbon at source. Many of them have aspirations or commitments to being so in 2030, so why not bring that forward? We are examining this issue. In the particular case of GNI, there appears to be in its legislation, as it tells us, almost no power other than to continue to connect. We will work on that because we think it is important that we connect large users in a manner consistent with sustainable economic growth, decarbonisation of economic growth and our climate action ceiling. We will engage with them on that matter as part of this process.