Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The difficulty is that EirGrid waits to see where everybody else is going and misses the opportunity for the country to be first up, best dressed and, ultimately, capture the new potential investment that comes with being first to market. I recognise the direction in which things are going. It is a matter of 2032 or 2035. We will have lost to somebody else. We have been talking about this for a long time. Scotland has stolen a little march on us, as have Portugal and Norway. Countries are all looking at floating offshore projects and we are still talking about it.