Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has spoken about private wires, the storage policy framework and the hydrogen strategy. The private wires consultation has been a long time coming. It could not happen quickly enough. In his first supplementary response, will the Minister address the capacity and resourcing of EirGrid as a vehicle to deliver on this ambition in the first instance? I regularly meet stakeholders. The Minister, like me and many others, will attend conferences on the opportunity presented by renewables, offshore wind and onshore wind. A number of other Deputies touched on some other themes, including ports and the planning system. The grid comes up time and again, including the capacity in the system, especially of EirGrid, to deliver on the ambition. We have Shaping our Electricity Future and we expect Shaping our Electricity Future 1.1 soon, it is hoped. There is a hope and expectation that the ambition will be even greater there. Will EirGrid be fit to deliver on it?

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