Mr. John Fitzgerald:

The Deputy is correct. Traditionally, the North Sea is a very shallow sea and so it has been very easy to develop a good deal of it using fixed bottom turbines. In regard to the west coast, where the depth is greater than 30 m to 50 m, this becomes too expensive. Floating offshore is a technology that is in trial in Portugal, France and Scotland. Scotland is a great example of a country that has embraced new technologies without necessarily putting its hand in its pocket to pay for them. It has invited industry in to do its demonstration projects in Scottish waters. I would recommend the high wind project, which is a novel technology floating offshore wind funded by, primarily, Equinor, which has achieved astounding load factors with floating offshore winds. This technology is not available here to date. It will be commercial in the next three to five years.