Mr. Jerry MacEvilly:

Absolutely. In this case, we have to remember that Ireland is an outlier. We strongly push back on this idea that Ireland is ideally suited when, to begin with, it puts such extreme pressure on our electricity system. In addition, and this is the other issue I wanted to touch on, there are real risks of data centres essentially locking in fossil fuel use, whether that is through use of on-site generation or additional requirements for long-term gas generation. To bring it back to the international perspective, it is quite interesting that many of these companies have quite strong, progressive, global decarbonisation commitments. What is quite telling and quite frustrating is that, in our view, they are not in reality properly applied in Ireland.

For example, where are the commitments to large-scale use of solar power and energy efficiency measures on their sites? That is something we should consider.