Mr. Justin Moran:

The Port of Galway is one of our members so we would engage quite a lot with it. It is already a key part of the port infrastructure that supports the development of onshore wind energy because many of the turbines that are used for onshore wind farms in the west of Ireland come through the Port of Galway. They are landed there and taken to the wind farms.

We are not here to pick a port winner. There will be enough work in the development of offshore wind energy in Ireland to provide opportunities for every significant port in this country. Even for some smaller ports and harbours, there are opportunities for them to be operations and maintenance bases. When we look at the west coast in particular, and as the Senator noted, the wind speeds out there are fantastic, it is not just about the opportunity to construct, marshal, operate and maintain those projects. We can be innovators and leaders out there because we will be developing offshore wind energy in some of the windiest parts and deepest waters of the world and we can take the skills we develop there, and I do not know if Mr. Ivers would like to come in on this because I know it is an area in which Green Rebel has worked, and take them around the world and compete internationally. One of the things we want to get across here is that if we can build an Irish supply chain to support Irish offshore wind farms, there is no reason those Irish companies will not be building wind farms off the coast of China, the US or Africa in 15 or 20 years time or less.