Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Could the need not be greatly diminished? People talk about 40% of renewables now contributing to the grid. That is great but the majority of that is delivered by inland wind. When the wind blows excessively, we have not kept pace with the batteries needed to store excess wind. That would have curtailed the demand there now is for gas. We have systems in place which, unfortunately, have not lived up to expectation or delivered as expected. We now ask the same systems and so forth to deliver on the ambitions we have offshore. That worries me slightly.