Mr. Justin Moran:

I wish to make a couple of brief points about the supply chain. The immediate and almost guaranteed piece of work we will get is that when these offshore wind farms are built, they will have an operations maintenance base in a nearby port. We have seen Codling Wind Park identify that as Wicklow. We have seen Arklow Bank identify it as Arklow. The example in Britain would involve approximately 60, 80 or 100 jobs, depending on the size of the wind farm there. Those would be long-term, stable jobs. Right now I think a lot of the jobs would be in the area of survey work. Ms Dempsey touched on an example of that a little earlier. There are companies such as Ms Dempsey's and Green Rebel Marine, in Cork, which is carrying out aerial and marine surveys and would like to do more. We have companies working with a special focus on community engagement and engagement with the fishing community, where there are many people whose day-to-day job is literally to go down to piers and harbours and talk to people in the fishing sector.

I will make one last point. Mr. Cunniffe is absolutely right. I do not think that workplace assessment or that kind of workforce assessment of resources has been carried out. There was an air wind report a couple of years ago by MaREI. That was kind of a blueprint for offshore wind. It did not just look at staffing resources but at a lot of other things as well. Unfortunately, I am struggling to drag the exact number to my mind, but I think it went to the point of identifying specific State agencies and giving at least some indicative figures. To be clear, that was not the State piece of work Deputy O'Rourke and Mr. Cunniffe were talking about, but it could be a useful starting point.