Eamon O'Reilly

There could have been shortages.

What did the government do or what did air grid and the regulator do?

They immediately went out and they procured a whole load of temporary, they call it temporary emergency generation.

So there's quite a lot of that has been built.

There was a scheme put in to keep Moneypoint retained, retained available in extremis.

So all we are saying is keep it available for longer than 2029, which is what the current plan is.

Keep it for at least a decade.

If you can manage to keep it there on coal, keep it on coal.

Well, when they shut it down on the coal, it is available to operate today on heavy fuel oil.

They've got two tanks down there.

ESB, in fact, got planning permission to build another two tanks.

So what we're saying, if it's not possible, if it's too late at this stage to go back on coal, at least build those extra two tanks.

And that will give you about 20 to 22 days of capacity to run the station at full output as and if needed.

Well, that is the point.

So an awful lot of the stocks of oil held by Nora for transport and eating, to back that up, those don't get used.

Just in the last week, actually, the extent of the crisis can be measured by Nora are now putting some of their stocks out into the market.

So lots of countries with these strategic stores are doing that to make sure that the oil is available that we need

There would be the capacity, but there is actually, it is with Plan All at the moment.

So there is a proposal for a request for planning permission for an LNG plant on the other side of the Shannon Estuary with Plan All at the moment.

If Plan All would give that the green light, there's an opportunity that might be built.