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like the Silver Mines project, to provide stability and to keep the grid running at a fixed level.

So the grid rewards the plant for providing those services.

That is correct, Joe.

This is the Maris Connect interconnector.

It is a 750 megawatt, 250 kilometre long cable linking Dublin and Wales.

We've made significant progress on this asset over the last number of years.

We hope to complete development activities next year in 2026 and proceed to construction in 2027.

construction period of about three years, so it may well be coming on stream in 2029 or 2030.

Well, obviously, nuclear development is prohibited in Ireland at present, and any decision to reverse this is really a matter for the state, duly informed by appropriate studies and debate.

But we do need to have an energy system that is secure, reliable and low carbon.

Right.

Nuclear certainly has the potential to deliver on all three of those.

In the meantime, Ireland has rightly prioritised and I think has been very successful at building out renewables, interconnection and storage assets.

From a foresight perspective, we're very keen to continue to fund these projects and through our private equity funds, the collection of Irish companies.

We're not a specialist nuclear investor, Joe.

I think they are relatively... I don't think anyone is in Ireland.

Indeed so.

Indeed so.