Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

The terms of reference allow consideration of all such matters, including costs, compensation and other mechanisms. It was for that purpose we considered it right to get an independent consultant of international repute to examine what all the costs are. There are different views and assessments of those costs from both companies and other parties that have an interest, such as the ESOP. To get clarity on that and to assist us in answering some of those questions were among the reasons for commissioning the report. Frontier Economics was also asked to look at all options available to us to ensure compliance with the EU third energy package. There is an EU dimension to this in terms of a requirement for us to have proper separation. Frontier Economics was examining this within the European Union context as well as within the context of the programme for Government.

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