Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Tom Donnellan:

The 210 redeployment jobs are for people who are directly impacted by the closure of the power stations. These are people who will not have work next year and will be redeployed by us. The other jobs that we call new jobs are for people we will probably have to hire. There are 100 people who will be hired in direct jobs in renewable energy, where we have a big pipeline of renewable energy projects to build out. We had 20 people in that group and have upped it now to 44. We have hired the balance externally. Some of them will come internally, if they have the skill sets, and some will come externally. It is not a question that we have more people to redeploy.

As we get down the road to the potential new jobs in the green businesses, herbs and aquaculture, our plan is that when we finish with the rehabilitation, circa 2024 or 2025, a number people will have retired, and some who may wish to stay with the company will be redeployed to those new opportunities.

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