Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Offshore Wind Energy Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Mr. Gary Tobin:

Yes. As Mr. McDermot has mentioned, there is an offshore wind delivery taskforce and it has ten workstreams. As the Deputy asked specifically about the membership, the taskforce is chaired by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and the Minister, Deputy Ryan, attends a lot of the meetings. Taskforce members are senior officials from Departments and agencies with key responsibilities. The member organisations are the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications; the Department of Transport; the Commission for Regulation of Utilities; EirGrid; the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science; the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; the Department of Rural and Community Development; the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland; ourselves in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; Enterprise Ireland; and the Marine Institute. That is it broadly. The taskforce meets approximately every eight weeks.

Standing under the taskforce there are ten workstreams which deal with marine planning; future framework; communications; auctions; grid development; and marine transport. Workstream 7 is the supply chain, which essentially is chaired by us. Our strategy is our response to the requirements of trying to develop the supply chain.

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