Dr. Patricia Scanlon:

There are 15 people and each one would give a different answer. The point of the council was to ensure we had a lot of differing opinions. I think our position has been that we are advising for an energy task force council to be formed with people who are experts to be informed by the needs of industry and to balance whether we should do this or not. We are not trying to come up with answers. We are trying to advise in regard to this being a really urgent decision that needs to be made. We would like to see more done and perhaps more understanding among the public as well about what the debate is and what the risks are. I acknowledge there are commercial risks to not doing it in regard to our revenue coffers. I refer to understanding what this will mean for Ireland in five years and ten years and having this debate. On our position, then, if everybody were asked this question, I think the answer would be different. We do not have one unifying viewpoint on all these complicated and complex issues.