Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Renewable Energy - Wind, Solar and Biogas: Discussion
Mr. John Fitzgerald:
Onshore jobs have not materialised with onshore wind. That is because we took an incremental approach. There was a scheme, a refit, then another scheme and another refit. We did not have the scale to get the industry jobs. We missed a trick there. The point I am making is that offshore wind generation will not emerge in the next year or two. It is five years away. Generation on the west coast is certainly a long way away. We need to plan to have those jobs to-----
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