There is floating wind energy. I do not want go into a complete debate but it is a debate so we will engage. Floating wind is now coming on stream at scale.

There was an auction process this year in French waters with every company investing in it with the expectation that it will come down in price in the same way that fixed offshore wind has done. We will move, in the second phase, into southern waters as well as western waters and then further west. The advantage of this power supply is that we can convert it through electrolysis, a working mechanism, into hydrogen and ammonia which gives us the storage and transport and other fuels that can power our country. To an…

If I can again, there is an immediate response we have to do but what we are seeing is those stations starting to be converted to one of the other storage mechanisms of the future, which is battery storage, which will be a significant part. Bord na Móna, a company that is absolutely thriving at present, is expanding and investing and creating employment and using international resources, as is Coillte and the ESB. We have real skills and capabilities----

We looked at every aspect of that. Some people here-----

I should be careful.

Through the Chair, we cannot be in breach of European environmental law.

Because we are a country-----

We are a sovereign Government which is also a member of the European Union.

Through the Chair, we are a country which believes----

I will not engage. I will try to avoid that. I will just say to you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, you know as much as anyone that the rule of law is important and gives us all protection. Being a member of the European Union has massively benefitted our country. We do have to adhere to the law.

On energy policy, there is a policy equation they call the trilemma. There are three things we have to get right. We have to have clean power, secure power and affordable power.

All three will benefit from the green revolution that is taking place here and around the world. To answer some of the Deputies who asked earlier if we will see the development of photovoltaics, PV, absolutely, yes, and the changes to the planning system which make it easier for Irish households, farmers, schools and businesses to apply PV. That is happening right across the country. To answer a direct question from Deputy Bacik or Deputy Whitmore, this month we will start the process of introducing that scheme for…

We will do that by providing direct credits. We will do that by providing social welfare payments.

We will do that by providing business supports as we showed we could do through recent years.

They have and if I can, through the Chair-----

Through the Chair, the reason for that is what Putin is doing.

The fact that you cannot-----

A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I think the Deputies opposite do themselves no favour when they deny that reality.

That is the reality. What has happened is the Russian Government has switched off the gas taps to Europe.

That is right. They started before the war to turn off the tap. That is the reason gas prices are ten times their historic level. If you do not believe that----