Ms Geraldine Larkin:

I will add that in addition there is a cross-departmental group led by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. All these groups are interconnected. There is no one silver bullet. It is a matter of every one of these issues progressing, including a demonstrator park, the Build Digital Project in Galway, and the work we are doing on an Agrément perspective. All of these are coming together. A lot of work has been done and there is a lot of consensus in this room around solving what is the biggest challenge of our time.

If this is a journey, the next step is detailed engagement with industry, and those Agrément-approved bodies and others who are providing solutions in this space, to look at what we can do on a practical, proactive basis. We have structures and frameworks. Agrément allows us an opportunity to consider and approve different types of structures. From a NSAI perspective, and I take the points made regarding the size of the Irish industry, our point is that we do not have any of those. It is probably a matter of putting our heads together collectively to ask how we approach this, even taking the solutions and regulations we already have.