I am not one for bemoaning the past – what is gone is gone and what is done is done. I was recently on an island with ESB workers who had installed an electricity service there. The island had been deserted but the people returned to it each summer to farm and fish. The cost was not excessive and I asked why the installation had not been carried out ten or 20 years ago. The answer was that the technology did not exist to lay the type of underwater cable which now exists in order to give a secure supply. Therefore, many of the changes relate to developments in technology in regard to boats, electricity cables and so on.