Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank all our guests for attending. Interestingly, it seems that Ireland's potential for offshore energy generation is envied by a lot of Europe but we are just not quite there.

On floating offshore energy generation, I understand the ESB has stated "Ireland needs a ring-fenced auction for 1 GW of floating offshore wind" to begin to harness the potential of the seas off our southern and western coasts and to meet a 2030 target but also that the Government has no plans for floating offshore until after 2030. Please explain, as those two comments do not make sense to me and I believe that one must be part of the other.