Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

That is a very sensible suggestion.

I do not wish to comment too much on the second issue raised by the Chairman. The Government has agreed to give it a number of months before we respond to the report of the commission. It was independently published, in effect, today. The one point I will make is that the biggest economic development of this country in the coming two decades will be the deployment of offshore renewable power. It will be at the centre of our economic, energy security and climate strategies. I refer to the scale in particular. With 30 GW of power generation, we have a competitive comparative advantage that we can turn to industrial policy. Much of that will be beyond the 12-mile limit. It will be in the Atlantic off the north-west, west and south-west coasts and our interest-----