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

There are very advanced plans. Much of it will be commercial development, some of the opportunity may be for deployment of wind turbines in other waters in the UK or France so it is not just a commercial opportunity for what we do in Irish waters.

There will be good commercial revenue from that. The exact financing mechanism to deliver it, be it a combination of State or private funding, is what we are working on at the moment and it will be part of the whole deployment strategy. Beneath that again, there is a whole level of operational maintenance ports and smaller ports which will be of more ongoing commercial benefit for the local community.