Mr. Mark Foley:

In fairness, the Deputy has nailed it. She used the word "strategic" and referred to allocation of demand. That is a sensible way to look at it. We are stopped at the moment. Doing nothing runs the risk that Ireland loses the future digital economy, which is not a clever idea.

The Deputy used the words “strategic” and “allocation” and asked which data are important and which is not. That is where the conversation needs to go, and Government policy needs to articulate that. In fairness to the regulator - and I have been critical of the CRU - it needs greater clarity in the Government policy proposition for it to have a regulatory policy that allows us to connect. In many respects, the Deputy eloquently answered the problem that Ireland has.

Regarding net-zero data centres, that is not us. The Deputy is picking that up from the data centre community. It is not something we are advancing.