Dr. Gerard Dooly:

I guess it is the same sort of answer as the last one. We are lacking a centre of excellence for these technologies. We offer drones for aerial, surface and underwater operations. There are centres of excellence in various other jurisdictions, including EU partner states but also the US and the UK. We do not really have that in Ireland and we are lacking a cohesive centre of excellence.

There is talk of a centre of excellence for offshore wind because there is a lot of change coming in that energy aspect.

On a centre of excellence in general for robotics, people who could work, for example, with the blue light organisations would help in advising the Government in terms of policy, rolling out demonstrations and helping when disaster response happens.