Mr. Adam Cronin:

I will add a little bit on that longer term piece. We have got three targets. We have the target of 5 GW by 2030, which my colleagues have been speaking about. We have got the 20 GW target by 2040. If 5 GW are not going to be delivered until, say, 2035, we are not going to deliver 15 GW in the following five years. That is not possible. Beyond that, there is a target of 37 GW by 2050. It is not spoken about as much anymore but it is still there. The Department of Climate, Environment and Energy is running a process for a national DMAP, which will look at designating the entire coastline, or all of the areas of the coastline where possible, in the context of the 20 GW target. That is slow. We are not going to see the outcome until December 2027 at the earliest. There is a lot to do in that so I understand why. One of my asks would have been to look at delivering that in stages rather than waiting for the entire country to be done.

The other part of that is that the other agencies need to be involved in that DMAP process. There is no point identifying areas of seabed for EirGrid to then step up to have a look at what it needs to do with its plan or what other agencies need to do. It needs to go across the board with all the agencies working together with at least that 20 GW target for the future, which will be focused on the south and west coast largely.