Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I know the Deputy is interested in this issues, as are other committee members. We sit on the offshore wind development task force. What happens on that task force is that different Departments are asked to take forward different work streams. Our Department is responsible for supply chain issues and for coming back and inputting into the task force reports in relation to that.

I think we need to do more than that and we are discussing how to do that within my Department. For me, there is a need and a justification for my Department to put in place a new industrial strategy around the potential of offshore wind and what that means in terms of knock-on consequences for the economy.