Mr. Noel Regan:

Essentially, it is a technical Bill, in that Ervia once was the owner of Irish Water and GNI. Irish Water, now Uisce Éireann, is gone, so Ervia is left with GNI. This legislation will dissolve Ervia. Ervia will disappear and GNI will have the functions and roles that it has today. They will be transferred over in law. We are tidying up the corporate governance, which is led by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. However, there are no policy matters in regard to the future role of gas. There is a brief update on a few relevant matters to the committee. The Minister, in his letter to the committee, wrote that the EU is currently in trilogue on the gas package, which includes a range of matters relating to natural gas, specifically changing how we integrate renewable gases into the natural gas market. Hopefully, that trilogue will finish in the coming months. This means the next block of work for us to work on will be the issues raised by the Chair. This is more about the role of GNI in a future hydrogen and decarbonised gas market and there is also a regulation on methane. There are issues to come. In short, the answer is "Yes", this is a corporate governance clean up of the move of Ervia into GNI. It is not-----