Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Harnessing Ireland's Ocean Wealth: Marine Co-ordination Group

Mr. Martin Finucane:

They are big pieces of equipment. Manufacturing them and moving them internationally is challenging. There are certainly opportunities for research but the economies of scale involved in manufacturing turbine blades would be a challenge, no more than trying to establish a car manufacturing facility there. We do not have the necessary economies of scale and it is difficult to see how a manufacturing facility would survive in an open market. If such a project worked out for a commercial developer, so be it, but that would be decision for that developer.

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