I can inform the Deputy that my Department, in accordance with EU Directive 2000/84/EC, compiled and communicated submissions in respect of this issue to the European Commission from a number of relevant Departments and semi-state bodies in July 2007. Following consideration of the information made available to it from Member States, the European Commission reported that it took the view that the analysis set out in the proposal for the Directive remained valid and that no Member State had expressed a wish to abandon summer time or change the provisions of the current Directive. Accordingly, I can advise the Deputy that there are no plans to change the present summer time arrangements.