Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That was on my watch as Minister of State with responsibility for innovation and research, but sin scéal eile.

I take the point the Minister made. I thank the Chair for letting me in. You can see the ambition when you meet the people who the Minister talked about across the sector. The level of ambition around this is phenomenal. I take the point the Minister made in respect of constraints around expertise. However, I also respectfully suggest that what we want to see in the south-south west are those licences and consents becoming operational and that mapping yesterday because of the potential there. There has never been a greater time capturing the zeitgeistwhere energy, academia and private and public finance have all come together in one effort to create something that is part of this industrial revolution now. It is frustrating sometimes to see the fact that if it was not for greater resources, we could be doing this much quicker. That is the frustration that I have.