Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

Does the Minister agree that we do not need to reinvent the wheel given the large amount of information on micro-generation available internationally? With an average tariff threshold for micro-generation of 50 KW in the rest of Europe, is it not self-evident that economies of scale arise the larger one designates the threshold? Does he also accept that the average energy requirement of a farm - perhaps not in my part of the country but certainly in the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's part of the world - is approximately 50 KW? Permitting output of 50 KW would make such farms energy neutral and dairy and other farms would have zero net energy usage because they would be able to supply as much electricity to the grid as they took from it. Will the Minister give a timescale for the completion of the various reviews, taking into account the European example? Will he indicate when decisions will be made?

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