Mr. David McGarry:

I do not see us getting involved directly in energy. We will support traders and the moving of goods and services in and out of the six ports and terminals we have. Our role is to put the infrastructure in place to enable the work of the contractors that will develop the wind turbines off the west coast and the parties that manage the grid and transmission infrastructure. Our role is to provide port infrastructure that enables developers and engineering companies that want to move pieces of equipment in and out of the port and to do sub- assembly on parts of the wind turbines and to support the operational management industry. We are an enabler of the system. We are not going to get involved in energy or distribution. We will build port infrastructure but in parallel we want to work with all the other State agencies, private industry, banking, the European Investment Bank, EIB, and ISIF to make sure we have the right policy, that the right planning frameworks are in place and that we have proper grid investment to enable all of the elements to use the port. The port is the essential piece of the jigsaw to unlock all the opportunity provided by alternative fuels and hydrogen storage. We do not have base port space and capacity to handle the erection and delivery of turbines and moving them in and out and wet storage. The industry cannot be opened up without that space. That is the role of the port.